OFF THEIR PLATE

Local Restaurants Team Up for Frontline Workers

To ensure Einstein staff were taken care of during this pandemic, the Philadelphia lead for Off Their Plate, a national grassroots movement creating a conduit for local communities to provide nutritious meals to tireless frontline COVID healthcare workers, jumped in to offer their help.

The organization’s 10 restaurant partners design meals within the financial parameters of $10 per meal. Half of this dollar amount goes towards economic relief for workers, the other half goes towards the meal itself.

“All of our restaurants, with the exception of one, are minority and/or women-owned,” said Ellen Halle, who heads up the Philadelphia volunteer chapter of Off Their Plate. “We have been donating approximately 450 meals to Einstein per week for the past six weeks, spread across three different shifts.”

The organization seeks out restaurant partners who will ensure that at least half of the donations go directly to employee relief and focus on partners who operate in the neighborhoods of the hospitals they are serving. The restaurants themselves make all the deliveries and our proud to support the community.

The organization seeks out restaurant partners who will ensure that at least half of the donations go directly to employee relief and focus on partners who operate in the neighborhoods of the hospitals they are serving. The restaurants themselves make all the deliveries and our proud to support the community.

“Our organization doesn’t have any specific ties to Einstein, but we made it our mission to assist Philadelphia’s hospitals as they dealt with a surge of COVID patients,” adds Halle.

It has been a pleasure to work with Kimberly Gross and her team in coordinating meal drops and ensuring that they go to staff all across the hospital, from physicians to environmental services staff.

The organization’s 10 restaurant partners design meals within the financial parameters of $10 per meal. Half of this dollar amount goes towards economic relief for workers, the other half goes towards the meal itself.

“All of our restaurants, with the exception of one, are minority and/or women-owned,” said Ellen Halle, who heads up the Philadelphia volunteer chapter of Off Their Plate. “We have been donating approximately 450 meals to Einstein per week for the past six weeks, spread across three different shifts.”

The organization seeks out restaurant partners who will ensure that at least half of the donations go directly to employee relief and focus on partners who operate in the neighborhoods of the hospitals they are serving. The restaurants themselves make all the deliveries and our proud to support the community.