It's like working at some billion dollar fast food chain but infinitely more rewarding and less soul sucking.
Get organised folks!
How did you find this community kitchen? Wondering if there's one in my area I'm not aware of.
I found it through the communist party I'm a candidate member of lmao
If you're in Australia, the kitchen is called the Community Union Defence League. Otherwise, your local communist party/anarchist org/leftist formation might have one
Damn I wonder if I have a local commie community kitchen feeding people sounds awesome.
Tbf it was a street kitchen and I mostly served food and drinks for my shift. Although I'm considering pre cooking meals for the next time I'm rostered
If you're able to cook filling meals in large quantities and you can cater for vegetarian options or avoid using beef or pork, you should be set. I found that a foil tray with dimensions 50cm x 30cm would last like 20-30 servings?
Been trying to get one started in my area. Any tips on how it’s run?
Not entirely sure about the admin side of it (and I probably can't say even if I did), but the kitchen has volunteers that cook and then a vehicle that goes around to them to pick the food up. It then comes to a pre planned spot to set up tables, and then you just serve
You can also bring along vegies, noodles, a gas stove and a pressure cooker if you want to cook onsite if food runs low. Gas stove is pretty much needed anyway for drinks like coffee tea and hot chocolate
Please do share anything you've learned from it! I think this kind of material support is a critical facet of organization.
I learned that many people who you won't consider in need of help really do. there were a few homeless people who reminded me of my parents and it made me a bit emotional to think of them like that. Also helps humanise the homeless whom most people just ignore.
It's definitely a really good way of giving to the people, and it helps facilitate discussion too. People were milling around and talking to us while we served, and everyone knew we were commies and were curious to know more.