Consider Skipping Lunch
Around lunchtime, people in my office start asking, "What's for lunch?" We'll coo over the ones who were good and packed something from home. There's even one guy in our office who recently started the South Beach Diet, so we'll congratulate him on how good he's managed to make his diet food look and smell. Then the rest of us will go out and come back with something sort of mediocre that cost at least $5 and often closer to $10.
So City Harvest's plea to New Yorkers to skip lunch tomorrow (Wednesday, May 12, Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger) and donate their lunch money to city kids who don't have enough to eat has the potential to really pay off. Can you imagine if all those expense-account lunches went to City Harvest for just one day? Then add to that all of us peons who spend a measly $7.
I love this organization. What they do makes so much sense: Turn what seems to be waste into something that's an absolute necessity by picking up leftover food from businesses throughout the city and giving it to organizations that feed people who don't have enough to eat. What could be more obvious than that?
in london, we have a sandwich chain, "pret-a-manger" where sandwiches are made at the premises fresh every few hours and what's not being bought fresh or left over at night is given away to shelters and other charitable institutions. I agree with you that that's the way to go and more businesses should act like that. It's a bit like boxing day (I am told that boxing day comes from centuries back where the rich families put left-over food from Xmas day on their doorsteps for the poor to pick up).
We have Pret here, too, now, and they're one of the places City Harvest picks up from. It must be a philosophy that's important to the company.