Free Meals And Supplies To Assist Hospitality Industry Workers At Hook Hall

As restaurants close again this week and restaurant workers are faced with being furloughed, Hook Hall Helps, the hospitality industry workers relief program started in March for the first pandemic shutdown, is being revived and providing free meals to the community. The Hook Hall Helps project began in March when restaurants were shuttered. Working in partnership with the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, Hook Hall Helps provided more than five hundred meals a week from March until June and raised more than $575,000 in donations to keep the program going. Hospitality industry workers will receive a variety of family meals to last three to four days. Industry workers may pre-register for meal distribution [email protected]. Pre-registration is not required but it allows chefs to know how meals are anticipated. Free meals and supply kits will be distributed every Monday from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m, at Hook Hall. Restaurants may sign up to create meals here. Restaurants will be compensated for the meals they provide.

Hook Hall will add a Northern Virginia distribution location on Thursday January 14th. Family meals from a rotating list of restaurants and supplies will be distributed from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. every Thursday from The Freshman, at 2011 Crystal Drive in Arlington’s Amazon’s HQ2 development in  National Landing. Nick Freshman, owner of the all-day coffee, cocktail and dining spot, is donating this space which was scheduled to open last spring but unable to because of COVID-19 restrictions.