Homeless Shelters Serve up Starbucks: 'It's a Dignity Thang' Whitebread
Three of Chicago's largest homeless shelters have banished bologna in favor of seared steak, za'atar chicken and perhaps, an extra helping of dignity.
The shelters, which traditionally serve a hot sit-down dinner and breakfast, often handed a peanut butter sandwich or other brown-bag lunch fare to visitors as they left each morning. But now, a partnership with Starbucks through Feeding America and the Greater Chicago Food Depository means that homeless Chicagoans get an upgrade to that critical daytime meal. The partnership potentially will expand to other U.S. cities as Starbucks' lunch offerings grow.
Unsold sandwiches and salads from Starbucks' Mercato lunch menu, currently only available in Chicago, are now directed to the three shelters nightly: Franciscan House in East Garfield Park, the shelter run by Olive Branch Mission in West Pullman and Pacific Garden Mission on the near West Side. Shelter managers say that the packaged meals, which range from a Cuban sandwich to green goddess avocado salads, have given those who stay at the shelters a much-requested break from the traditional PB&J they would leave with in the morning, reduced food waste, and freed up hours of sandwich-making traditionally handled by volunteers.
They're also giving the temporary shelter residents something less tangible but even more important, shelter officials say.
"There's something respectful about giving out good, quality food," said Ed Jacob, executive director of Franciscan Outreach, which runs Franciscan House. "It's a dignity thing. It's not like putting bologna between two slices of bread."
The shelters typically serve a dinner of pork chops, chicken or steak from established donation points like local restaurants or events brokered through the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Breakfast is often a hearty combination of pancakes, oatmeal, sausage and eggs, or something similar, depending on what food is delivered for that day. And then, volunteers or other full-time assistance program residents would prepare sandwiches to ease the 12-hour stretch that residents spend out of the shelters during the day.
But the sandwiches for hundreds of hungry people took hours to make, tying up volunteers, and some residents would take them and not eat them.
Olive Branch shelter manager Genice Bowles said that sandwich-prep duties that used to take three hours now take about one, and there are no longer any wasted meals.
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"Sometimes people would just walk out and drop the peanut butter sandwiches on the street," she said. "That doesn't happen anymore."
It also takes care of those shelter guests who have dietary constraints, Franciscan House Program Director Cynthia Northington said.
Starbucks has had a formal program to donate unsold pastries and other nonperishable food items for more than six years, but the FoodShare program in which it donates prepared food like breakfast sandwiches and boxed meals started a year ago in San Diego. The program is now in 11 markets, and Chicago was the largest of those until the program began in New York earlier this month. Starbucks says it hopes to donate prepared food from every company-owned store by 2020.
The Mercato lunch menu donations were added in Chicago this spring as that line of packaged sandwiches and salads debuted in most of the coffee giant's downtown stores. If it catches on, Starbucks plans to roll out the Mercato menu nationwide.
Other restaurant chains, from Panera to Au Bon Pain, regularly donate unsold food to the homeless through similar partnerships with Feeding America and local food depositories. But few give ready-to-eat sandwiches and salads. Pret a Manger donated 50,000 pounds of sandwiches, salads, wraps and baguettes from its 10 Chicago locations last year, according to Stephanie Perez, the chain's marketing manager. Those items were donated to local Chicago missions, she said.
The Greater Chicago Food Depository said it collects about 1,900 pounds of food per night from Starbucks stores, roughly the equivalent of 1,600 meals. As the FoodShare program began in Chicago, the Greater Chicago Food Depository added overnight routes for the first time to collect unsold meals, food depository spokesman Jim Conwell said. Trucks collect from Starbucks in the evening and deliver to the shelters by morning.
The food depository expects to see about 693,000 pounds of food delivered from Starbucks stores this year.
"We're ready to take the lessons learned so far, and feed more people," Conwell said.
Franciscan Outreach's Jacob said the ability to improve the quality of the food it offers to disadvantaged Chicagoans can have a positive ripple effect that most people may not realize.
"I think the security of knowing that they will have something healthy and good in their (lunch) bag makes a big difference," he said. "There is so much stress in so many parts of their lives, so anything that that allows you to de-stress allows you to start to tackle some of the other things in life: health, housing, whatever it may be."
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I feel like a chump for all those months I had to eat ramen as I was working and saving up money to buy a car and pay my rent. Sheeeit!
Now I'm too lazy to check, but isn't this the tumour that just bankrupted an entire state?
I feel you should probably stop spending money you don't have, and you would think going bankrupt would make people prioritise things and cut their cloth accordingly.
As long as Starbucks pays for everything I guess.
I don't eat Starbucks but let's not kid ourselves. I know the coffee is just flavoured high fructose corn syrup with some cream. I bet the salads even find a way to cause diabetes.
There's nothing dignified about slaughtering pigs, cows, and chickens (all loyal and kind animals) then feeding them to worthless niggers.)
One Pig is worth a thousand niggers.
You have a car and your own place. You want to take away their starbucks goop?
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Worse than porn.
Human rights violation to be honest.
The day will come where you'll see an obese black woman roll up to you on a rascal and ask for change.
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Honestly, this is food that would have been thrown away otherwise. I would rather the food be going to poor and homeless white people though, which I imagine there are very few of in Chicongo.
The problem is that it enables people to be lazy. Personally I don't have a job, but that motivates me every day to try something new to see what sticks and in the mean time I help out anyone I can for a couple bucks. I'm not complacent. I want money for okay food, things I like, and to do things. If somebody were able to just go to a kitchen, get free Starbucks, wifi, a place to sleep, and everything else, why would they do anything?
I get where the thought is nice, but it does something worse than making lazy wastes of space, it robs people of their motivation to do anything and keeps them complacent with wasting away and not contributing anything.
they will vote to take away from you what you worked hard for, that's their use
As long as no tax money is wasted feeding these niggers, I don't care. Let Starcucks deal with them.
leftists are some of the most undignified people in the world, why won't they shut up about it?
These niggers are going to be lazy, useless pieces of shit no matter what. The best thing would be to gas them all, but at least no tax money is going towards this shit.
In most places felons can't vote.
Chicago is going bankrupt so they better eat while they can lmao
It's like you forgot the entire purpose of the global economy, Satan.
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The kike is using it as a write-off because he's losing sales.
Niggers don't drink coffee. They drink RC and Shasta and drank in the morning.
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If you live in a homeless shelter, you do not deserve dignity. Full stop. Furthermore, that indignity should be used as fuel to light a fire under your ass to push yourself so you don't have to live in a homeless shelter. This fucking society, I swear
THE FIRE FUCKING RISES
The vast majority of homeless have serious mental and/or drug problems. They should be in state sponsored homes or aborted after DNA tests show any mental issues.
If we lived in an all white society (and I therefore cared about the homeless and underperforming students) then setting up bootcamp style job training camps would seem the best solution. In schools it's always 10% or less of shit for brains students that fuck it up for everybody else. Those kids should be yanked out of regular school and sent to a boot camp/vocational school that prepares them for life.
Didn't Starcucks share value crash when they adpoted the pro rapefugee policy?
The drug and mental problems is very true in my experience. I live in NY and as long as you have a resisdence (just a place that you can get mail) the gibs start rolling. These people are too far gone to be part of society. I am constantly chasing them out of our dumpsters at work. The vast majority of these people deserve no sympathy, they're feral retards.
What worked for the Red Man le noble savages can work for People of Crime. Give them a reservation Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore where they can be kangs and goodify themselves to their heart's content.
All that's needed is to sweeten the deal by figuring out a revenue model that is analogous to casinos on the Red Man's reservation.
Enough of you faggots thinking a containment area is acceptable for shitskin scum. America is WHITE land and all others should be violently purged, not put in a zoo
Life must be struggle, user. Life must be struggle.
They better chow down and enjoy, because they're not getting anything once the RWDS roll out.
Yes, Why not spend more money for the homeless. It's not like there aren't any homeless people in tents living in Shitcago
So what you're telling me is that the food they serve at Starbucks is so terrible that they have to feed it to the homeless?
The fat hamplanets and beta males that go to starcucks for their 2000 calorie caffeine milkshakes aren't the most intelligent or engaged people. They're mostly like niggers and their KFC or McDonalds. Not much changes their junky-type habits, and the stock price hasn't moved much in general. Still not a good stock to buy.
Used to volunteer in Chicago. Starbucks is known to donate extra food that they couldn't sell. Stores do this regularly as well. The food is probably closed to expired.
Do they pack up and move these tents during the day? How the fuck are people allowed to set up whole tents and live on the sidewalk?
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either way it's not that big of a deal, it allows the stores to unload unwanted food and gives the food centers free sources of food.
because bluepilled cities let them. there's about a dozen niggers that sleep on the grass outside my apartment during the day, and dump out all the trash out at night- the cops refuse to do their job and people actually reward them with stuff
t.berkeley user
put them in a zoo
and then stop supporting them
its a self solving problem
typical dumb burger normie
Tax write-offs. They don't do it for free.
Gladiatorial combat. Place bets on which Kang dies.
The police in dark blue cities only do eviction raids twice a year with notices advance the homeless plague the sideways and public parks
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The heeb stepped down after suffering the Trump curse but obviously he's still calling the shots. But oh well Holla Forums is always right.
smart move, trash becomes a tax write off
Always look at the brightside of life.
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Not saying I support this but honestly there needs to be something done about all the waste that grocery stores/restaurants generate. It's better than just throwing it out.
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Lazy faggots get into charity work, but think they're too good to make a sandwich. It's a classic dualism in the charitable (runaways/druggies/homeless) sector:
Used to work as support staff at a halfway house.
How do you winnow them out without voter ID?
confirmed for never having met a chicken
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Dissing Bologna
Dissing PB Sandwiches
Throwing out food, someone went through the trouble of buying their useless gibs me dat asses
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tbh I sometimes feel slightly ill seeing how much perfectly good shit my store throws out cause it's close to expiring, "expired', or cause we are no longer carrying it on the shelf. Still perfectly good food its just past the bullshit date so we can't sell it and don't have any programs to donate the shit.
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tbh I sometimes feel slightly ill seeing how much perfectly good shit my store throws out cause it's close to expiring, "expired', or cause we are no longer carrying it on the shelf. Still perfectly good food its just past the bullshit date so we can't sell it and don't have any programs to donate the shit.
t. grocerystorefag
I'm not even mad anymore, looking forward to raiding some kosher fridges on the DOTR tbh
We used to let people pick through the dumpster until freecyclers or whatever they're called started breaking shit and suing stores because they got sick/hurt.
Also if you get known for giving away free shit people just wait for the free shit instead of buying stuff.
Can confirm. All fucking Chickens must fucking hang.
You're soooo superior taking your ugly bus full of niggers and mudslimes. Fuck off.
Blame the Jews, my store had to pour bleach on the food due to the possibility of lawsuits. There was this one church in my city that went around grocery stores like 15 years back picking up all the extra food that stores throw out, but the fucking city shut them down.
This kind of fucking shit. I am so sick and tired of hobos. All they do is lay around and do drugs all day, shit all over, piss all over. Entire streets stink like hobo permanently now. they leave trash and hoard piles everywhere, throw garbage around, throw used needles in the river and the parks. always running around screaming and cursing, being violent, doing stupid shit, destroying stuff, harassing people, catcalling women, descending to beg for money (which they buy drugs with). There are jobs in my city, tons of 'em. They don't want to work, they want gibs and drugs. They're wastes of oxygen. Fuck's sake, now I need to eat good food today so I can feel better, I literally have been skipping meals to save money and some nigger gets SEARED STEAK for free. Please gas the welfare state, Trump! Gas it gas it kill them all, I want every hobo dead, DEAD. I'M SICK OF THEM. Everywhere they go they spread filth and disease, steal anything not nailed down, we have cops patrol the library on 5 minute intervals because of hobos now. This should not be how it is. I hate hobos. I hate people who "help" the "homeless."
There are tons of job-holding whites who genuinely need help. They work, or maybe they are just unemployed and want to work. But no, all the gibs go to HOBOS, NIGGERS, DRUGGIES, AND SPICS. EVERY TIME. They've perverted these programs. And how are they all OBESE. All the hobos are OBESE. I can't afford to eat that much food, how is someone poor if they're so fat they need a double chair? This god damned fucking shit.
I WANT THEM DEAD.
You know what to do.
This tbh. I live in a pozzed major city and god forbid if I want to treat myself to a fucking burger or something after a week of starving myself without some type of genetic refuse whining at me like I'm their daddy and that I'm obligated to keep them fed. Shit's embarrassing for everyone involved. And the dumb ass tourists treat these panhandling goblins like pidgeons, they think it's fucking quaint to shower them with money and takeout. Virtue Signaling fucktards.
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Yes.
That first pic is one of the saddest things I've seen in a while.
Closing the asylums was a mistake.
They just kind of make an encampment and keep it occupied 24/7, intimidating those who walk under "their" bridge. Mortifies my gf, and she refuses to walk by those areas alone because the "people" there give her looks that make her uncomfortable.
They also get to write it off for tax purposes.