Meeting the Moment
Scaling Impact
Giving Thanks
2019 Annual Report
- Statement of Financial Position (unaudited)
- Statement of Financial Position - Assets
- Statement of Financial Position – Liabilities
- Statement of Activities (Unaudited)
- Statement of Activities – Operating Expenses
- Statement of Activities - Operating Revenue
- Net Assets by Restriction
- Assset, Liability, and Net Assets in Totality 2019 vs 2018
- Revenue by Category: 2019 vs. 2018
- Expenses by Category: 2019 vs. 2018
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Kitchen Confidence
Since the beginning of the pandemic, people have been ordering more meals from restaurants for takeout and delivery. And restaurants have hired back staff to prepare and deliver meals for health-care workers — "feeding the frontlines."
One thing was missing: realistic, authoritative guidance on how kitchens should operate during a pandemic. Even months after lockdown began, most kitchens operated without a clear and cohesive guide to best practices.
Everyone in the workplace should wear a face covering at all times.
- A face covering is any well-secured, washable fabric construction that covers the mouth and nose and wraps under the chin.
Pre-shift briefings
At the beginning of each shift, hold a pre-shift briefing with all workers to remind them about handwashing, covering coughs and sneezes, touching, physical distancing, and cleaning and disinfecting.
Hand Washing
Wash hands, including under fingernails, as often as possible with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
- Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- Keep fingernails trimmed short
Engineering controls
The second level of the hierarchy is engineering controls. In a commercial kitchen, this mainly involves ventilation:
- Ensure that building ventilation systems are working properly and maintained per standard protocols for optimal indoor air quality.
Enter the Food and Society Program, which recognized that the industry needed authoritative and practical guidance–and quickly. With support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund and help from leading infection-control experts, the program released Safety First: Serving Food and Protecting People During Covid-19, a report with detailed, frequently updated recommendations that touch on every point of the food-preparation process. “Our goal is to tell chefs, managers, and restaurant owners how their procedures need to change in the era of Covid-19,” says Corby Kummer, the executive director of Food and Society. “These guidelines are first and foremost about keeping workers safe.”
Co-presented with World Central Kitchen, the James Beard Foundation, and Off Their Plate, Safety First has been downloaded hundreds of times and is available in full in Spanish and in excerpts in Chinese. The New York Times and Eater prominently featured it; José Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen, and Pete Wells, a restaurant critic at The New York Times, tweeted enthusiastic recommendations.
As state and local governments scrambled to set rules for how and when restaurants could and should reopen, the rules for keeping servers safe became an urgent need. Food and Society went to work again, convening a working group of leading industry voices, architects, ventilation engineers, and big-city health department officials to work through best practices of a Diner’s Code of Conduct and a Covid-preparedness grading system extending the familiar and trusted food-safety grades. The goal remains safety–and, in a world with too little of it, confidence.