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2 Toronto chefs donate 50,000 meals during COVID-19 pandemic

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The pandemic was barely a week old last march when two Toronto-area chefs began doing the math on a growing food crisis.

Humber College had to shut down its culinary arts program as well as its cafeterias and was sitting on $50,000 worth of food it couldn’t use. And with so many Canadians off work, food banks and shelters were seeing a significant rise in clients.

Add those two issues together and you get a remarkable 12 months of charity work from chefs Keith Hoare and John Placko.

“It all started with Keith giving me a call and saying, ‘Can you come out to Humber College? They’ve got a lot of food. Their classes have stopped. They want to donate it,’” Placko recalled to Global News.

So they picked up the food in their cars and brought it to the food bank. It didn’t take long for the word to spread. Suddenly, Hoare and Packo were busy going to restaurants and food suppliers to pick up food that would have been used at weddings and conventions.

Here’s Mike Drolet with the story.

MORE: https://globalnews.ca/news/7691419/toronto-chefs-food-donations-pandemic/

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