Good deeds: how New York restaurants feed doctors for free

Restaurants throughout the city are mobilizing to feed healthcare workers in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. This publication writes Eater.

New York City restaurants are in a quandary today. Many of them closed, and those that remained began to prepare takeaway and delivery. But despite the difficult situation, institutions began to raise funds for food for medical workers. After all, it is an unaffordable luxury for doctors to go away to buy food for themselves today - the number of patients is so large that they simply do not have time for it.

In the coming months, the number of patients in city hospitals is likely to increase. This will put even more pressure on the medical community. Therefore, the restaurant industry daily mobilizes through the collection of donations more and more people in order to feed the doctors.

Here are 16 restaurants and organizations that organize food delivery for doctors (and accept donations to support this process):

Girl Scouts of Greater New York. This youth organization has already donated 40 thousand boxes of food to healthcare workers and hospitals in New York, in their plans to donate another 100 thousand boxes.

The migrant kitchen. The institution provides 1000 meals a day to urban health workers and hopes to increase this number to 2000 meals a day.

Butterfield Market. This restaurant raises funds to send thousands of sandwiches to healthcare workers at hospitals such as Lenox Hill, Metropolitan Hospital and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

S'mac. An institution from East Village asks donors to buy a gift card online, and then forward it by e-mail to [email protected]so that the restaurant can use these funds to buy food for doctors.

All. For more than a week, Barcha Restaurant in East Harlem has been serving food to hospital workers and accepting donations through Venmo and Paypal.

886.Taiwanese 886 Restaurant now delivers food to more than a dozen hospitals in the city. Over XNUMX meals have already been delivered to the East Village.

New york presbyterian. Students at medical schools at Cornell and Columbia Universities are raising money to feed healthcare workers throughout the city. To date, they have delivered more than 1500 dishes from 41 restaurants and hope to deliver another 6000 dishes over the next two weeks.

Ruby's. Ruby's Australian Café, which has three branches in New York, raised more than $ 50 out of $ 75 intended to cater for healthcare providers throughout the city.

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The restaurant prepares breakfast, lunch and dinner for a group of hospitals in Manhattan and plans to deliver 700 meals this week.

The wheelhouse. The Wheelhouse, along with Millie's Cuba Cafe sister restaurant, raise money to feed Brooklyn hospital workers. At the moment, the restaurant has raised just over $ 1600 from the planned $ 5000.

The Deep End. This cocktail bar delivers up to 200 meals a day to workers at the Brooklyn Hospital and Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. At the moment, the restaurant has raised just over 9 thousand dollars, and it is planned to collect 25 thousand dollars.

Donut donuts. The iconic donut shop has launched a project called Frontline Sweet Support, which finances the delivery of donut boxes to hospitals throughout the city.

Billy's pizza. As part of a nationwide fundraising campaign to send pizza to medical workers, this Brooklyn pizzeria has already delivered hundreds of pies to district hospitals.

Fieldtrip. The chef of this restaurant, Jay Jay Johnson, raises funds for the nutrition of medical workers and the remuneration of their employees.

Everyman espresso. This small coffee shop chain is raising funds to send coffee to healthcare professionals through a campaign called Fuel the Frontlines.

Saigon social. Vietnamese restaurant LES Saigon Social has already provided over 500 meals to hospital workers and continues to raise funds for a wider project called Frontline Foods.

Gomi wine bar. The facility accepts donations through its Venmo @GomiNYC account to feed hospital staff. The restaurant plans to donate 1000 dishes.

As ForumDaily New York wrote earlier:

• In New York, 435 points of distribution of free food for residents were deployed. About where to find them, Read here.
• One of the restaurants in New York feeds city doctors for free. Since the launch of the program, the owner of a restaurant chain has collected more than 100 thousand dollars and delivered several thousand dishes to medical workers.