Non-profit helps Seattle restaurants feed hospital workers during pandemic
Some of the most powerful images we've seen during the coronavirus pandemic are the pictures of frontline medical workers, exhausted but determined to protect and serve the sick. But who is serving them? A grassroots organization that's helping medical staff and local business.
Frontline Foods is a non-profit that grew out of this pandemic. Their premise is simple but genius. Frontline provides healthy meals for the clinicians in hospitals across the country, including Seattle, through local restaurants and kitchens.
"It's really inspiring to see the restaurants, you know, put the hospitals first. A lot of them, a lot of the restaurants, not even wanting to be paid. But we went in and said, 'No, we're going to pay you. We want you to be here when this is all over,'" said Frank Barbieri, original organizer of Frontline Foods.
Barbieri said while talking with a friend of his who is a nurse in San Francisco, he was moved by her fierce dedication and sacrifice. He asked what he could do to help, and her reply was simple: "Send pizza." That's how the idea was born, and since then they have raised over $2 million served over 70,000 meals.
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