OUR MISSION
Our mission is to connect commercial food establishments with the hungry throughout our community. Your Kitchen to Soup Kitchen helps salvage leftover unserved food by transporting it to various hunger relief agencies throughout the area.
We coordinate a pick-up and delivery schedule between our network of donor food establishments and recipient food shelters. This allows our volunteer transporters to ensure food donations arrive precisely during the service hours of the soup kitchen.
Get Involved
You can support us by:
Donating Food (if you are a Commercial Food Establishment)
Volunteering to be a Food Transporter
Identiying Potential Food Donors
Increasing Awareness of Your Kitchen to Soup Kitchen Among Potential Recipients
Sharing our Mission and Increasing Awareness Throughout our Community
Making a Financial Donation
“Nearly 460,000 people in San Diego County – including 162,000 children – do not know where their next meal is coming from. In all, 15 percent of San Diego Country’s population is impacted by hunger.”
– Feeding American San Diego – August 7, 2013
“An estimated 133 billion pounds of food from stores, restaurants and homes was wasted in 2010.”
– USDA , 2008 – http://www.restaurant.org/advocacy/Food-Waste
“The American restaurant industry has a big food waste problem. A 2014 study by the Food Waste Reduction Alliance found that 84.3% of unused food in American restaurants ends up being disposed of, while 14.3% is recycled, and only 1.4% is donated.”
– American restaurants are wasting an incredible amount of food – here’s the proof, Business Insider, May 17, 2016
“Most food that’s thrown away ends up in landfills, where it can have negative environmental impacts.”
– USDA , 2008 – http://www.restaurant.org/advocacy/Food-Waste
OUR FOOD PARTNERS
