How this Los Angeles healthy restaurant chain pivoted to emergency relief

When the L.A. restaurant chain Everytable opened its first café four years ago in a food desert in South Los Angeles, its goal was to find a new way to expand access to healthy food for the city’s lowest-income residents. When the coronavirus crisis hit, its business transformed: While it still sells some takeout and delivery meals, the bulk of its business is now emergency relief. advertisement advertisement Nearly 300,000 free meals, funded by government agencies, will go to more than 1,000 homeless residents now sheltered at local hotels. One hundred thousand free meals will be delivered to seniors at home. Another 168,000 meals, paid for by donors and foundations, will go to thousands of foster youth and low-income college students. Over a three-month period, the company expects to provide at least a million emergency relief meals. (For context, that’s as many as it sold in total over its first three years of operation.) The chain first took action when California’s governor announced on March 13 that seniors should say at home, days before the statewide lockdown started. “We knew that seniors in Brentwood and Beverly Hills could just order Postmates and Instacart,” says CEO and cofounder Sam Polk. “Seniors… Read full this story

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