A new restaurant, called Local Food and Friends, was just established in Kansas with a goal of using only local food, and donating 100% of the profits to charity.
“I did a lot of research and no one had ever tried a concept like this in the United States, so we wanted to try it,” said the owner, Dave Dreiling. “Each month, we’ll pay off all of our bills, then we’ll take what’s left and we think we can generate between $5,000 and $10,000 per month in an average month.”
Each month, the restaurant will support a different local charity. The first is Flint Hills Breadbasket, whose mission is to “minimize hunger and poverty through the distribution of available food and to nurture projects that will help alleviate hunger and poverty.”
Dreiling said, “The needs are really high for the Breadbasket this time of year. We’re very excited to be partnered up with them for the rest of May and all of June.”
Flint Hills Breadbasket’s Maribeth Kieffer said “We were absolutely surprised and we can’t say thank you enough.”
She added, “I think that they are doing a one-of-a-kind thing, starting something that will maybe travel throughout the United States.”
“We’ll happily open up what we’ve done and how we’ve done it. If someone wanted to do this in every community across America, I think it’s a great way of answering how social and how corporate can help solve some of our problems without trying to get the government to do it,” Dreiling said.
