Chefs across the US are transforming their restaurants into relief centers for laid off restaurant workers

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A coalition of chefs in New York have set a goal to cook 1 million gallons of soup to provide restaurant workers. Why soup? It gets boiled, so there are fewer safety concerns, and it freezes well.

With the rising number of coronavirus cases, countless states announced this week that restaurants and bars must close their dining rooms and move to delivery or take-out services only. The crackdown leftin states such as California, Kentucky, Connecticut and New York without jobs.

"People are going hungry and no one has paychecks and no one knows what the future is," Lee told CNN."We saw an immediate need to open up our kitchen to help the millions of restaurant workers that are out of work, many of whom are living paycheck to paycheck." There are plans to expand the program to Seattle and New York as well, said Collis Hillebrand, executive director at Wagstaff Worldwide, a hospitality-focused public relations and marketing company that is working with the LEE Initiative.Lindsey Ofcacek

 

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Soup kitchens just like Bernie always wanted

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Vegans beware. Foods that dont get cooked could have Coronavirus on its surface. Foods cooked at high temps kill the virus. So all yall salad eaters, cold cut eaters, etc be cautious

Last year, there were 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide because of the flu, and there are 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year, according to Johns Hopkins University. The Anti American politicians are Covid 19 over reacting WHY

CNN likes to throw in “feel good” stories in between bashing the federal government and our President. It’s a good trick to imply they are really well intentioned. DON’T BE FOOLED, THEY ARE NOT. CNN is SUBVERSIVE.

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No Soup For You!

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just like grandma used to make

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