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Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Restaurant is committed to giving back!

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Restaurant is committed to giving back!
Restaurant is committed to giving back!

Since March, Poppy and Rose restaurant has fed frontline workers and people experiencing homelessness.

They've donated an average of about 200 meals per month."We started to see a lot of people start camping out on the street.

So, at the end of the day, we would take our leftovers and what we hadn't sold and give it out to the people who were sleeping on the street," said co-owner Kwini Reed.

"And then a wonderful, tragic thing happened which was the Black Lives Matter movement," said Reed.

A trend took off on social media to support small, black-owned businesses.

Poppy and Rose consistently showed up on lists that went viral."And when that happened, we saw a huge shift in our sales.

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