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The coronavirus pandemic has been particularly tough on the restaurant industry, but one Arkansas restaurant still managed to raise more than $9,000 for a local food bank.
On Thursday, Chicken Salad Chick, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, donated $9,400 to the Northwest Arkansas (NWA) Food Bank.
According to a Facebook post from the food bank, the donation is expected to provide 94,000 meals to people in Northwest Arkansas who are food insecure. Thank you Sharon and your team for your generous support of our organization, NWA Food Bank wrote on Facebook. We appreciate you!
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas (KFSM) Chicken Salad Chick, a southern-inspired, fast-casual chicken salad restaurant, has raised a total of $9,400 for a local food bank.
A check will be presented to Northwest Arkansas (NWA) Food Bank, a non-profit food bank serving the hungry in four NWA counties, on Thursday (Jan. 21) at Chicken Salad Chick in Fayetteville.
Last March, restaurants were forced to close their doors temporarily when the coronavirus hit the state and have continued to struggle since reopening with lost revenue resulting from quarantine, the mask mandate, capacity guidelines and all that came with the pandemic.
Even though 2020 was one of the hardest years to hit the restaurant industry in modern U.S. history, many local restaurant owners stepped up to help feed community members in need, even with no guarantee they would be able to provide for their own families before the pandemic was over.
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started early this year, local foods banks have served Carroll County residents in need. Thats one thing that will stay the same going into 2021, several food bank representatives reported.
Flint Street Fellowship
Karen Timm, executive director of Flint Street Fellowship Food Bank in Eureka Springs, said the food bank is still open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. No one can come into the building to get their food, Timm said, so volunteers hand out food at the front door.
A lot of places have a drive-thru, but we just dont have that ability so folks are coming to the front door, Timm said. Were making sure everyones wearing masks and were doing the distancing. Its been getting busier the last month or so.