{"id":23562,"date":"2019-10-11T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/?p=23562"},"modified":"2022-09-19T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:40:20","slug":"fry-family-foods-donates-5000-plant-based-burgers-to-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/company-news\/fry-family-foods-donates-5000-plant-based-burgers-to-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Fry Family Foods Donates 5000 Plant-Based Burgers to Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220903034634\/https:\/\/fryfamilyfood.com\/\">Fry Family Foods<\/a> announces it is partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedoc.org\/\">Second Harvest Food Bank<\/a> of Orange County to provide 5,000 plant-based burgers to people in Southern California who are struggling with hunger and homelessness.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/interviews\/frys-family-foods-making-vegan-food-that-is-good-for-people-animals-and-planet\/\">The global plantbased brand<\/a> is donating the burgers to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, which distributes donated, purchased and prepared foods through a network of more than 300 community and partner programs throughout Orange County. Last year, the nonprofit provided enough food for a record 26.5 million meals and fed more than 250,000 people each month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23564 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/vegconomistcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Food-bank.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Food-bank.png 574w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Food-bank-150x50.png 150w, https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Food-bank-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\u201cWhen we saw that 112,000 children in Orange County may go hungry every month and that 22% of seniors are also at risk of going hungry, we knew we had to do something. Through their Kids Caf\u00e9, School Pantry and Senior Grocery programs, Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County is committed to providing meals to those in need in the Southland and we\u2019re honored to be a part of that effort,\u201d states Fry\u2019s International Marketing Director, Tammy Fry, whose father founded <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/trade\/expansion-frys-family-foods-enters-into-partnership-with-organic-food-chain-in-california\/\">the company<\/a> nearly three decades ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe are grateful to businesses like Fry\u2019s for their support and involvement in our pledge to feed nearly a quarter of a million people in Orange County every month,\u201d states Katie Shea, Food Sourcing Coordinator for Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. \u201cWhen so many in our community are struggling to put food on their tables, ensuring that every person in Southern California has access to a healthy meal is of paramount importance and companies like Fry\u2019s make it possible for us to provide meals to those in need.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Fry&#8217;s products were recently launched into the US and <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/products-and-launches\/australia-fry-family-foods-vegan-pizzas-launch-in-woolworths-and-coles\/\">as we reported this week<\/a>, Fry&#8217;s vegan frozen pizzas just rolled out into Woolworths and Coles in Australia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fry Family Foods announces it is partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County to provide 5,000 plant-based burgers to people in Southern California who are struggling with hunger and homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news","infinite-scroll-item","resize-featured-image"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1.jpeg",528,451,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1-150x128.jpeg",150,128,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1-300x256.jpeg",300,256,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1.jpeg",528,451,false],"large":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1.jpeg",528,451,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1.jpeg",528,451,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1.jpeg",528,451,false],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Frys-burger-1.jpeg",528,451,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Emma Clarkson","author_link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/author\/emma\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Fry Family Foods announces it is partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County to provide 5,000 plant-based burgers to people in Southern California who are struggling with hunger and homelessness.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}