Let's Help the Restaurant Industry, The Community, and Everyone!

The lights are usually out on Mondays in Toronto’s restaurant districts. From the Ossington strip to the Danforth, thousands of square feet of professional-grade infrastructure sit idle while the city’s food insecurity hits a "state of emergency."

In a city where 1 in 10 residents now rely on food banks—a number that has doubled in recent years—we can no longer afford to let our most sophisticated kitchens sleep. It is time for a dedicated Toronto charity to bridge the gap by subletting these spaces on closed days, transforming them into "covert" community kitchens

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