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How Taco Bell, Chipotle, Just Salad and more restaurant chains are helping healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemicHow Taco Bell, Chipotle, Just Salad and more restaurant chains are helping healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic

From salad match campaigns to free fried chicken to taco trucks, big brands are donating food to those on the front lines

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

April 1, 2020

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While restaurants across the country are shuttering dine-in operations during the coronavirus pandemic, some large chains are giving back to the community by donating food to the essential healthcare workers on the front lines.

Several chains are doing matching programs where customers buy one item and then food is donated to healthcare workers. New York City-based Just Salad is caring for the medical workers in the hardest hit state, New York, by donating up to 10,000 salads while Coolgreens is donating salads to healthcare workers in that chain’s native Oklahoma.

Taco Bell donated $1 million to No Kid Hungry last week, and this week turned the brand’s “Taco Trucks” into mobile commissary kitchens to feed healthcare workers.

Meanwhile, Chipotle is donating trays of burritos to hospitals and offices that apply through their program in honor of National Burrito Day.

Read through to see six chains that are providing free food to those at the front lines.

Contact Holly at [email protected]

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

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