I grew up listening to my mom constantly telling me about how people back in Philippines would starving to have the amount of food I was fed, growing up in Canada. This made so much more sense to me when I had a chance to actually plant rice in the rice fields of Japan and coupled with working in the catering industry for over eight years. (As well probably why I ended up being a chubby husky little filipino kid that loved to eat and loved to cook.) But I digress!
So much food goes to waste in the industry and its one of the main reasons why I designed Simplicity as a triple-bottom line company to address help address this issue.
Part of that plan is ensuring the un-plated food goes to the right place, right away.
This is where Second Harvest comes in!
I recently had a great opportunity to ensure the food donated from John and Emily's wedding went to Second Harvest. I thought that there would be no better way than to deliver it myself!
Guaranteed Delivery!
It was also a golden opportunity to finally connect face to face with Melissa Decic, the Foodraiser with whom I had occasionally spoken to whenever we had a donation to pickup, but I simply never had a chance to meet her until now!
I finally meet Melissa! At the loading dock for the Second Harvest warehouse
I'm really proud that Simplicity is developing a great connection with Second Harvest. As you can see, no suit for this visit. It was simply too hot and it was all work! On this visit, our client John and Emily donated over 250 pounds worth of food. What surprised me is how timely our delivery was. Second Harvest truly needed it because Melissa informed us that during the summer months, very little food is donated and their warehouse was quite bare.
Special thanks to our clients John & Emily for making this possible, and thank you Melissa for the great opportunity to finally meet!
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