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Grand Rapids food giveaway to feed 400 families of restaurant and hospitality workers
By: FOX 17
and last updated 2020-12-22 10:59:49-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â A drive-through food giveaway is being held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Grand Rapids this afternoon.
The event, organized by Sysco of Michigan, the Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association Educational Foundation, and the Michigan Hospitality Industry Employee Relief Fund, is meant to support hospitality and restaurant workers that are experiencing financial hardships.
We re told Sysco has donated 400 boxes of food meant to feed families of four.
The giveaway is scheduled to run from 1 to 3 p.m. today.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer still needs to sign the $465 million COVID-19 relief package approved in the state House and Senate. But given the widespread bipartisan support for the legislation and Whitmer s calls for similar relief, it s expected she will approve the bill.
On Monday, Whitmer said she was glad lawmakers did what I asked them to do and passed the measure. But she said there are some legal issues in the bill, and hinted she could use her line-item veto authority to remove some components of the measure.
The measure is different and separate from federal legislation that also would provide economic relief if passed and signed by President Donald Trump.
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They joined each other at Boyne Highlands Resort in Harbor Springs to provide these restaurant workers and their families with boxed meals.
Director of Business Specialist Jim Woolsey says they’re doing whatever they can to help. “And the idea is get them by with at least a couple meals to try and help out during these
difficult times,” he said.
Sysco provided 400 boxes of food, each with two meals that can feed a family of four. “We have hamburgers and buns and hash browns and yogurts and different vegetables and things along those lines,” said Woolsey.
Executive Vice President with the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association, Amanda Smith says some of these families are the people who need help the most. “The workers are definitely suffering,” she said. “They haven’t been able to work. This is the time of the year when the front of the house makes some of the largest sums of money that they have all year round.”
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Help for the hard-hit employees of restaurants and other service workers was provided during a drive-up food giveaway at Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi.
Sysco of Michigan donated a total of 300 food boxes, each packed to feed a family of four, and joined forces with The Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association Educational Foundation and The Michigan Hospitality Industry Employee Relief Fund to coordinate the assistance for workers faced with financial hardship because of the state’s extended shutdown for dine-in services.
Suburban Collection Showplace provided the space and staffing for the drive-thru giveaway.