Meals on Main Street - Caritas of Port Chester Inc

Would you turn down a meal from your favorite restaurant if it cost less than $2?

Fast food costs more than that!  "What's the deal?"

Restaurants, caterers, delis and schools are eager to work with Meals on Main Street to provide low cost, nutritions meals to families in need, all while making sure they can keep their kitchen staff working and engaged. It is a win-win solution.  

They prepare trays of food for us to turn into family-style meals and in return, they reduce employee down time and keep their staff employed and engaged. 

Sausage and peppers from a local restaurant, with rice and spinach prepared by our kitchen.Partnering together, we pumped more than $100,000 into the local economy here in Port Chester during the pandemic, delivering nearly 60,000 meals prepared from entrees made by local restaurants and caterers, along with 52,000 meals we prepared in our own kitchen.

We are in the process of building a commercial kitchen with greater capacity, but in the meantime, we continue to face increased demand and high levels of food insecurity in some of our neighborhoods. From our earliest days as Holy Rosary Soup Kitchen more than 20 years ago, our vision has been to provide food for people in need here in Port Chester and beyond, fostering hope for a better tomorrow for all. 

Caritas of Port Chester incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2012, with the dream of one day having our own commercial kitchen that has the capacity to feed everyone in need in our community. The pandemic taught us early on that we simply could never accomplish that alone. We needed to partner with others who have the additional staff, expertise and larger facilities that we lacked. 

With the Restaurant Connection, our Meals on Main Street Program is totally scalable.  When we need more meals, we reach out to one of our restaurant partners, allowing us to feed more families in need at a ridiculously low cost.  

So, what do you think? How many $2 meals can you help us provide?