TORONTO – A non-profit that works to provide meals to community members in need is expanding its reach in Toronto.
Mealshare is adding more than a dozen restaurants to its roster of Toronto businesses that participate in the ‘buy one, give one’ meal program.
Mealshare launched in July 2013 by co-founders Jeremy Bryant and Andrew Hall.
When diners purchase a ‘Mealshare’ item from a participating restaurant, one meal will be given to someone in need, at no additional cost to the customer.
In each city that Mealshare operates, it works with a different local charity – in Toronto’s case, with Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) – to donate meals. The organization also works internationally with Save the Children.
The goal is to turn “dining out into helping out.”
Mealshare soft-launched in a handful of Toronto restaurants last October.
Now, the non-profit has added 13 more restaurants to its Toronto footprint, including all three Pizzeria Libretto locations, Marben, Glory Holes Doughnuts, and Richmond Station (view the map below for all participating locations).
“We are on a mission to completely revolutionize the hospitality industry in Canada and we hope the Toronto restaurant community will play a big part in helping us accomplish that,” said Derek Juno, Mealshare’s VP of Business Development.
In addition to Toronto, Mealshare has partnerships in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria and Halifax.
In April, it celebrated a milestone with 250,000 meals donated.
The next goal? One million meals shared. Mealshare has teamed up with a number of Canadians, including Hayley Wickenheiser, Andrew Ference and the mayors of Edmonton and Vancouver, Don Iveson and Gregor Robertson, for a new campaign, “Road to One Million.” For every tweet sent out from the campaign site, Mealshare will donate one meal.
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