Days after the specialty grocery stores abruptly shut their doors without notice, the stores are full of food.
, the stores are full of food, including several ready to go meals, like sushi. During a time when one in four Chicago-area families are facing food insecurity, the Greater Chicago Food Depository is hoping to rescue all the food left behind.
"It is very hard for us to see when there is food left on the shelves especially at a time now when hunger is very persistent in the community," said Greater Chicago Food Depository spokesperson Man-Yee Lee. Especially since Dom's partnered with food banks to donate surplus food, a big refrigerator remains empty at Care for Real. The Edgewater food pantry"We are ready and able to mobilize quickly with urgency to collect food if we can get ahold of somebody from organization," Lee said.When the parent company what owns both filed for bankruptcy, Dom's vendors were also left in a lurch.
"It was beers we made specially for them, like their house Pilsner," said Tyler Davis with Duneyrr Fermenta Winery and Brewery.With plenty of brewed beer ready to go, owner Tyler Davis is using it to hold a fundraiser on Saturday for the hundreds of Dom's employees who lost their jobs and were left without severance or any other benefits.
"Fifty percent of the proceeds are going to go, basically, to a fund directed at employees themselves," Davis said.against Dom's and Foxtrot parent company Outfox Hospitality. The suit alleges state law requires a 60-day notice for companies that employ more than 100 people.
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