for every 10 meals you order, we give a food shelf what it costs us to make one, so a neighbor eats. zero markup on your order.
you order ten, a food shelf gets the cost of one.
no round-up, no pop-up. the donation comes out of our margin.
tallied at month's end, sent in one transfer.
simple math, visible math. for every ten meals you order, we hand a minneapolis food shelf what it would cost us to cook one more. a dollar goes further through them than it ever could through us.
the cost of one meal, in real dollars. nothing added to your cart.
weekly meal prep, à la carte, or a one-off bakery run. nothing about your cart changes. same prices, same sunday delivery, same kitchen.
at month's end we tally meals ordered. for every ten, we set aside what it costs us to make one more, out of the kitchen's own budget.
that money goes to a minneapolis food shelf, where bulk buying turns every dollar into more meals than a restaurant plate could. no questions asked of recipients.
the board up top reads from the same database your order does. no rounding up for marketing. whatever it shows is exact.
two carts, side by side. one with second plate, one without. same total. the donation comes out of our kitchen margin, not your checkout.
no forms, no proof, no lines to stand in. hungry is enough.
that's about 312 meals you'd order, and for every 10 a minneapolis food shelf gets the cost of one in real dollars. 31 donations a year, at no added cost to your cart.
we used to think the most generous thing a kitchen could do was cook an extra plate and hand it over. then we did the math. a food shelf buys food by the pallet. the same money that makes us one meal makes them several.
so we changed it. instead of donating a plate, we donate what that plate costs us, straight to a food shelf that turns it into more. a clean mechanic we can explain in five seconds: ten meals ordered, the cost of one to a food shelf, nothing added to your cart.
ten meals ordered, we send a food shelf the cost of one. tallied monthly.
no surcharge, no round-up, no pay-it-forward pop-up.
minneapolis, the city our kitchen calls home.
we tally the month's orders and send it in one transfer.
second plate's first hand-off went to the black business network in august. we're building the list from there: food shelves, free-meal programs, weekend food for school kids. every time we give, the partner gets a card here.
take-home food for east side saint paul families during the first week of school, handed over at food truck fridays on payne avenue. egg bites and swole rolls for the week, plus take-n-bake swole rolls for the freezer, so breakfast is one pan and 20 minutes on a chaotic tuesday in september.
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this program is just getting started, so you won't find testimonials here yet. we'd rather feed people first. anything else, a human answers.
talk to a humanonce it's been running a while we'll share what it's made possible, only ever with the permission of anyone involved.
the easiest way to feed a neighbor is to feed yourself first. every 10 meals you order sends real dollars to a minneapolis food shelf, the cost of one more meal.
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