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Chef Hiring Out Of Work Staff To Process Food Boxes For Employees
Fifteen laid-off restaurant workers will be paid to sort boxes of food from supplier US Foods at his shuttered Frontera Grill restaurant.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Celebrity chef Rick Bayless is helping laid-off restaurant staff with a program to provide jobs and food while they’re out of work due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Fifteen laid-off restaurant workers will be paid to sort boxes of food from supplier US Foods at his shuttered Frontera Grill restaurant in River North, will process 800 boxes per week to help stock the pantries of other workers at his restaurants, as well as at least five partner restaurants. The boxes will contain dried goods, produce, bread, poultry, and meat.
