The trio donated thousands of free meals at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis.
It’s one thing to put your money where your mouth is. It’s another to put it where someone else’s mouth is.
That was the model for Berry Accius and his business partners Michael Harris and Willis Webster, all of Sacramento, at the dawn of coronavirus shelter-in-place orders, last spring. They decided to offer free pop up dinners on Thursday and Friday nights, to as many people as they could feed. I heard about the trio recently, and had to talk with the guys.
Accius told me that he and his friends weren’t prepared for the demand.
“The need was greater than what we assumed it would be,” Accius told me by phone. “We thought we were going to have to feed 200 people — no big deal. On the first day, over 1,000 people showed up. We were prepared to feed 300, and wound up having to turn hundreds of people away.”
“I felt some kinda way about that — we all did — and we decided that we weren’t going to let that happen again. We got our menu prepared to feed a lot more folks. We got some folks on board to do pre-orders, and we were able to start feeding the number of people who needed to be served. No one left without a meal.”
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Michael P Coleman is a freelance writer who, as a kid, talked to strangers and got punished. Today, he talks to strangers and gets published. Follow his blog, his IG and his Twitter.
