Restaurant Week funds feed people without homes
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ReStart's Ninth Street location east of downtown. Photo: Travis Meier/Axios
Some of the money used to purchase meals during KC Restaurant Week in January is funding food for families facing homelessness.
The big picture: Restaurant Week is put on by Visit KC and the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association, with 10% of the proceeds supporting their charitable funds plus a local nonprofit.
- This year's recipient was ReStart.
Driving the news: Organizers behind the annual dining initiative presented ReStart with a $125,134 check at its Ninth Street building on Tuesday.
- "This money could not come at a better time," ReStart CEO Stephanie Boyer said at the event, adding that the nonprofit recently tripled its capacity with a new family-focused facility in Midtown.
Context: ReStart serves nearly 90,000 meals to more than 1,300 people in need each year, Boyer said in a Visit KC statement.
- ReStart will use the funds for its meal programs and nutrition education.
The latest: ReStart earlier this month cut the ribbon on its first low-income housing project, the first of several planned units under its UpStart development arm.
- And last week ReStart opened its 45-unit Family Lodge facility at the former Midtown Quality Inn & Suites.
What's next: The 18th annual Restaurant Week will take place Jan. 8-18, Lauren Logan, Visit KC's director of partnerships and events, said Tuesday.