Nellie’s Heroes Lunches“I would have never thought to take our restaurant and deliver meals out to people,” says Doug Schantz, the owner of Nellie’s Sports Bar.
Yet that’s exactly what he’s been doing on a regular basis since April: preparing and delivering meals to front-line workers at key institutions around town.
And once word got out about the ongoing nature of the restaurant’s meal donations, Schantz says “people started saying, ‘Hey, I want to become a sponsor.'” Now they can do just that through the recently formalized program, Nellie’s Heroes Lunches.
A sponsor can sign up to help deliver meals to “heroes in the community that [they] want to recognize,” or they can support more meals for essential workers at key institutions.
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