Rethink Food
Non-profit organization · Greenwich Village ·
Chef-led nonprofit transforming restaurant scraps into meals
Chef-led nonprofit transforming restaurant scraps into meals
"A nonprofit that bridges food waste and food insecurity by mobilizing restaurants to prepare free meals; the organization partnered with the collective to build a local Bronx program that served more than 30,000 free meals in 2020 and helped raise roughly $250,000 to support food-security efforts." - Bettina Makalintal
"I noted that Rethink Food was the nonprofit through which the American Express donation to Daniel Humm was routed to open Eleven Madison Park as a commissary kitchen, and that grants offered to restaurants by Rethink cap out at $40,000." - Luke Fortney
"I see the city is using the work of organizations like Rethink Food NYC as a model to turn restaurants into community kitchens, diverting excess supply from shuttered restaurants to organizations and areas that need the food." - Tanay Warerkar
"A chef-led nonprofit that transforms high-quality restaurant scraps and prepared leftovers into nutritionally balanced, ready-to-serve meals for shelters and missions. Operating out of an industrial kitchen, the program employs a small team of chefs to convert items like braised portobello, carved roasted chicken used in a chicken-and-rice entrée, stewed cabbage, green salad, and cream of mushroom soup into packaged meals for distribution. The operation handles logistics—providing refrigerated trucks, drivers, and replacement food tubs—offers donors full indemnification on handoff, and leverages partnerships with restaurants and farms to secure near-ready, seasonal ingredients. With an early tally in the low thousands of meals served and a goal of one million meals per year, the initiative also seeks to relieve restaurants’ disposal costs, create tax incentives for donors, and eventually hire and train people from the communities it serves." - Sarah Zorn
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