Virtual Breakfast Session: Food Service and Community – A Shared Table

Editor’s note: This podcast originally aired on Total Food Service’s YouTube channel.

Total Food Service interviewed Julie Kinner, Table to Table’s vice president of operations, for their Virtual Breakfast Session podcast that aired Oct. 26. Julie appeared on a panel where she discussed Table to Table’s 26-year mission with other food service professionals and sector leaders.

Also appeared on the panel were: Liz Neumark, CEO at Great Performances, founder of Katchke Farms, and the Sylvan Center, Dan Meiser, founder and CEO at 85th Day, co-owner of Stone Acre Farms and The Yellow Schoolhouse, Fred Klashman – Publisher at Total Food Service magazine and co-producer of the Virtual Breakfast Session podcast, and Larry Sashin, president of L. Sashin & Associates and creator and co-producer of the VBS.

Table to Table is New Jersey’s first and largest food rescue nonprofit, bridging the gap between food being wasted and people facing food insecurity. We bring rescued fresh, nutritious food to 303 community partners, including social service organizations, pantries, shelters, fresh produce markets and centralized distribution hubs. Food is provided free of charge. Through this, Table to Table touches a diversity of those in need, including families, children, veterans, and older adults, making good nutrition accessible while serving as a stimulus for other longer-term benefits. Since 1999 we have rescued more than 120,700 tons of nutritious food—enough for 241,400,846 million meals—and delivered it to our neighbors in need, saving over 544 metric tons of methane saved.

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