00:26My name is Brendan Beck, and I'm the owner and founder of Beck and Call.
00:29Catering Company in NYC. Feed Those Who Are Fighting is an initiative to try to help
00:34save restaurants by feeding hospitals. Hey everyone, I just finished dropping off another
00:40120 meals to the Gracie Square Hospital on East 76th Street. Pretty much 100% of our revenue just
00:47dropped. In order to like try to save the company, me and my friend were kind of just like coming
00:52up
00:52with an idea. As he mentioned, hospitals are you know really getting hit hard. Maybe there's
00:57something you guys can do in donating food to them. First delivery was to Woodhull Hospital.
01:02Got to the kitchen, we cooked off everything. We brought about 100 sandwiches and salads.
01:07We dropped off around like 4 or 5 p.m. that day. We delivered to a back entrance. The
01:12volunteers came out, you know, everybody wearing masks, etc. But with carts and then we just loaded
01:17onto the carts. Hospital workers are all grateful, but realistically like we are extremely grateful
01:22because you are giving us the ability to keep our employees on payroll.
01:27I have two chefs that are doing the bulk of the cooking and then I jump in to help, you
01:32know,
01:32plate the sandwiches when I need to and then my role has kind of been coordinating with the hospitals
01:37and doing the deliveries. It's basically just like a family, kind of like a team effort between
01:42the three of us. We were planning on opening a storefront before all this, but obviously that's not
01:47happening. The most amazing part about the whole deal of feeding the hospitals is the hospitals are
01:52supporting the restaurant industry and the restaurant industry is supporting the hospitals
01:57at the same time. I'm worried about a lot of my friends for going out of business and if we
02:02can get
02:02more people involved, we can get that many more meals out. I really can't thank everybody,
02:07you know, all of you for your support, you know, whether you're sharing, you know, sharing our story
02:12and helping us get the initiative around or, you know, donating or connecting us with hospitals,
02:17it all helps. The goal is to put out as many meals as possible and get as many restaurants
02:22involved as possible, you know, because everybody's struggling right now. I would like to be feeding
02:26more of the public hospitals because from like what I've seen, those are the hospitals that have
02:31been hit the hardest. I would like to be able to double the amount of food that we're doing every
02:35day,
02:35200 meals a day, so 1,400 meals a week. In six years of, you know, owning back and call
02:41for cooking
02:42for people. I haven't felt like this type of joy ever. I feel really grateful to be able to do
02:49it.
02:49Super, super fortunate to be able to try to help people just by feeding them a sandwich. Not much,
02:54but we're trying.
