We talked about this and we decided that in lieu of a christmas party, we would do something for the community instead. So yesterday we took the Bunsmobile down to the Crown Lutheran Church in Ballard and helped out the Phinney Neighborhood Association's soup kitchen program by serving free burgers to those in need.
We shared the idea with Molly Moon so Leo (their truck) came along and served free cream. Molly herself was there scooping up their amazing ice cream. Hmmm...Burgers from BUNS and ice cream from Molly Moon... that's practically food porn.
We served about 100 burgers. From what we can tell, the guests enjoyed the great food. But we almost created a riot in the dining hall because some guests were a bit impatient to wait for their turns. All was good everyone got burger and ice cream.
So there was no riot and you did not hear about this on the news because we made a point NOT to send press releases around ahead of time and dilute our sincere intent. Diane Sawyer was not there, neither was Katie Couric. We are ok with that.
Our staff donated their time for the event. Corfini Gourmet donated fresh, natural ground beef from Painted Hills. Grand Central donated the buns. Thank you Alden, Matt, Lauren, Eli, Dave, Ira (and the girls)! And of course, Molly and Kendall.
We had a good experience and we think we will do this from time to time through the year. Molly and I were thinking maybe in the summer when it is not so efing cold and miserable. Who knows? Maybe we will start a new trend and get more of us mobile food people to do this sort of things?
That's a wonderful thing you guys did. Bravo! I understand your good intentions not to capitalize on the publicity, but if something like this is publicized, it may inspire others to do the same?
ReplyDeleteIn any case, developing karma is always good!