COVID-19: Bloomberg Supports World Central Kitchen $6 Million for 16 NYC Health & Hospitals

With $6 million of support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen launches today food service operations at two NYC locations, with a plan to be functioning across 16 NYC Health + Hospitals facilities by Monday, April 27. According to the press release:

The collaboration will feed all NYC Health + Hospitals hospital, acute, and post-acute care staff plus additional personnel who have joined their ranks at these facilities, regardless of their department, discipline, or tour, seven days a week, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. from a uniquely designed grab-and-go "cafeteria." World Central Kitchen and NYC Health + Hospitals have strategized a variety of internal and external set-ups tailored to each individual facility's needs, ensuring that the highest safety standards are met, frontline workers experience little to no wait for meal dissemination, and that food is available to staff who work overnight shifts. The partnership aims to also meet workers' dietary restrictions with as little burden as possible.

Through its #ChefsForAmerica response to COVID-19, World Central Kitchen has been distributing 50,000 meals a day in the Bronx, Queens, Harlem, Brooklyn and New Jersey. The new partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies will allow World Central Kitchen to increase production at their meal distribution center at Hudson Yards and establish contracts with local vendors and restaurants to assist in providing thousands of additional fresh meals for the NYC Health + Hospitals staff.

In addition to supporting NYC’s hungry, exhausted healthcare workers, the initiative will allow some local restaurants to bring back employees in s first step to revive the ailing NYC restaurant industry. To offer your own financial support to the NYC, USA and global efforts of World Central Kitchen, click here.