Apply for Aid or leave a tip for Oahu’s displaced restaurant workers. In response to watching restaurants lay off mass amounts of employees across Honolulu, we have decided to band together as a community to support one another. Following the lead of cities around the country, we created a virtual way to tip and support individuals in the restaurant industry. On our web page/ spreadsheet you will find a growing list of Honolulu restaurant professionals (bartenders, servers, hosts, chefs etc.) from your local restaurants who have either currently been laid off due to recent closures or who have had their income dramatically reduced due to COVID-19 and are in need of financial help.
Apply for reliefe or donate: CORE: CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES is dedicated to serving food and beverage service employees with children, who are faced with life-altering circumstances and in need of our help. As the world faces the biggest pandemic in our lifetime, we want to continue to honor our mission by providing support to food and beverage service employees, with children, who have been medically diagnosed with COVID-19.
Apply for relief or donate. Temporarily overwhelmed with applications so check back soon. Will update if it changes and I catch it.
Apply for relief or become a donor
Not yet in Honolulu, but a great project.
We are facing an unprecedented emergency, unlike anything this country has experienced. Beyond the health impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus, our economy has ground to a halt — schools and businesses are closed, travel is restricted, and restaurants face an uncertain future. Traditional safety nets like school feeding programs, childcare services, and senior centers are struggling to stay open.
The reality is stark, but simple: Millions of Americans are out of work and struggling to put food on the table for their families.
But this moment is not without hope. We will get through this, and World Central Kitchen has seen what’s possible as we’ve fought on the front lines in Japan and California deploying systems to deliver meals to quarantined cruise ship passengers. Our Relief Team is now serving nearly 100,000 meals every day across the country, and we need you. Together, #ChefsForAmerica can make sure nobody is left behind.
Not in Honolulu yet, but perhaps soon if you know a restaurant owner willing to take this on! Due to the closure of restaurants across America, thousands of restaurant workers have an urgent need for assistance. Independent restaurants are at the center of the vibrant growth in America. For the past decade, we have relied on the convivial and dynamic hospitality of the independent restaurant scene to make this a city that we are incredibly proud of. Restaurant workers need your help more than ever. It is vital that we offer relief to those in need, so after this crisis restaurants can return to their full vibrancy.
In partnership with @makersmark and @leeinitiative @chefedwardlee we have turned restaurants across the country into relief centers with local chefs for any restaurant worker who has been laid off or has had a significant reduction in hours and/or pay. We are offering help for those in need of food and supplies. Each night, we will pack hundreds of to-go meals that people can come to pick up and take home.
Includes several more relief funds for restaurant workers and their children, Crucial resources for immigrants, both documented and undocumented, health info, explanations of Gov't resources, unemployment resources, news and information on the impact of Covid 19 on the restaurant sector's workers. GEM of a resource.
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) is asking for disaster relief for the workers it represents, but its aid program is on hold since they were overwhelmed with applications, so I would consider donating to Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation Covid Fund instead until ROC resumes direct aid. I will change this as soon as I find out they are back on track.
Temporarily on hold, but they promise to be back. They were overwhelmed by applications.In the meantime, you can apply for relief now if you are a restaurant worker at Southern Smoke (serves all states, not just in the South).
Application for emergency Covid 19 relief funding for individual restaurant workers. The application is for all states, not just southern ones, and the detailed information is required by Federal regulations, not an info grab as far as I can tell.
They are promising 0% interest loans for restaurant workers as soon as they are able to set them up and will inform via their newsletter first. Sign up here.