Good deeds: Brooklyn restaurateur feeds everyone who has suffered from the COVID-19 epidemic for free

A resident of Brooklyn is trying to provide food to those who lost their jobs afterwards the coronavirus epidemic. He encourages everyone to make donations so that more people can receive their free portion of food. This publication writes amNewYork.

Good deed

Ty Brown discovered Restaurant Bergen in Brooklyn on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with great optimism and the belief that he will succeed. At the same time, he helped his community and provided children with free food.

Soon, a coronavirus epidemic hit New York, and Crown Heights restaurant on Bergen Avenue was forced to curtail its work. Then Brown temporarily turned the institution into a public pantry. Now he provides free food to all those who have lost their jobs and failed during this social crisis.

The business was a natural extension of his youth run Run Brooklyn United Music and Arts Program on Gates Avenue and Ralph Avenue in Bedford Styvesant, through which he provides children with free food.

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While some businesses have to lay off employees, Brown has just hired eight more employees, expanding to 17. This will allow him to keep up with consumer demand for free food, with which he provides them. The restaurant serves about 150 people daily. At the same time, he continues to cook and deliver food to the community. Among the dishes that people provide are sandwiches with turkey or peanut butter, jelly and chips for lunch, spaghetti with fried chicken, broccoli with white rice and vegetable mix for dinner.

Enough for everyone

So far, Brown has relied on donations, raising $ 2500. He also received a donation from the vegan food giant Beyond Meat for 100 sets of products containing 100 boxes each containing chicken, sausages and meat products. These kits enjoyed great success with the public, including in places like Dunkin Donuts and Burger King.

Thanks to donations, the restaurateur plans to distribute 3000 bags of food in front of his establishment. He also expects that there will be more and more people who want to get free food, and is going to attract police to ensure that the rules of social distance are respected.

“We expect the queues to become longer and we will provide them (food. - Ed.) without thinking, said Brown. - This happens not only on Crown Heights, people come here, come on foot or go by bus to have lunch or dinner and take refreshments for relatives. This is a difficult time for many people, and we want to help them. ”

Brown said he expects to receive supplies from Beyond Meat in the next two days. According to him, the restaurant “has the honor of being selected for such a large donation” as for a company that started its business just a few weeks ago.

When and where can I get free food?

• Lunches are served daily from 11:30 to 13:30;
• Lunches - from 16:30 to 18:30.

You can pick up food by the address: 1299 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11213.

Need public help

However, Brown seeks to convey to the public that to continue such activities donations and any help are needed. “We are trying to identify these needs for food, in packages for the care of people, and now that (the number of infected. - Ed.) COVID-19 is growing, and schools have closed, we first offered the children lunches, and then added more dinners, ”Brown specified.

According to him, a sad story awaits us. After all, we are talking not only about the unemployed, but also about people who are simply trying to make ends meet. “In a country where there is a church at every corner, do we, as business owners, dare not help the community to thrive?” Brown asks.

The restaurant has a web page for regular orders https://www.izakayasushilounge.com thebergenbk.com.

Make donations can on the site bkunitedmb.com.

Make a transfer - on $ bu2018 or $ thebergenbk through the Venmo money application.