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Tony Shure and Colin McCabe, co-founders of the 15-unit fast-casual concept Chop’t Creative Salad Company, have partnered for a second year with the New York-based nonprofit program Wellness in the Schools.

WITS, which was founded in 2005 by Nancy Easton and chef-restaurateur Bill Telepan, serves healthful, freshly made lunches to 20,000 underprivileged New York City public school children each day.

As part of the program, Chop’t — a 2008 Nation’s Restaurant News Hot Concepts! Award winner — donated $25,000 to “adopt” P.S. 175 in New York’s Harlem neighborhood and supply a full-time “WITS-in-residence” chef to prepare fresh meals and help to train school staff.

Shure and McCabe also get involved personally, visiting the kids at the school a...