Each day, employees at Farley's East cafe in Oakland, California fix about 200 turkey, ham and egg salad sandwich lunch plates to be distributed free to the homeless, hungry school-age kids, medical professionals at Covid-19 testing sites, and others in need.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Each day, employees at Farley’s East cafe in Oakland, California fix about 200 turkey, ham and egg salad sandwich lunch plates to be distributed free to the homeless, hungry school-age kids, medical professionals at Covid-19 testing sites, and others in need.
Funded in the San Francisco Bay area through donors like Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry and wife Ayesha, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the program is expected to continue through the summer. But the lunch order from World Central Kitchen , a Washington DC-based nonprofit that has organized community food giveaways with 2,000 restaurants nationally since the pandemic began, adds back another 30%.
Farley’s East has had other help as well. In April, the cafe received a $221,000 payroll protection loan, one of 4.7 million distributed in a $660 billion program created by Congress in late March. The money helps pay for the 16 employees Hillyard has rehired, as well as rent and some other overhead charges.
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