LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – About 200 Los Angeles cooks are back at work, introducing a California job to utilize federal disaster relief money that pays restaurants to prepare and provide thousands of well balanced meals for at-risk seniors.
Chefs prepare meals at the Westin Bonaventure hotel as part of California Guv Gavin Newsom’s program to utilize FEMA and local money to produce meals to deliver to at-risk seniors, as the international outbreak of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 7,2020 REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
The program, called Great Plates Delivered, belongs to the state’s effort to reduce suffering inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic that has actually left a trail of death, joblessness and appetite in its wake.
Alba Molina, 57, a cold food preparation cook at downtown’s Westin Bonaventure hotel, is among the employees who mask up for task at the otherwise deserted residential or commercial property near the Los Angeles Convention.
” It’s assisting me pay my bills. It’s not just any job, it’s a great task with benefits,” Molina stated.
Next week, Molina and her colleagues at other dining establishments and hotels will turn out meals for almost 4,700 elders in the higher Los Angeles location. “I feel honored to be able to provide them this service,” Molina stated.
Throughout a current Reuters see to the Bonaventure, the workers filled trays with baked salmon, steamed broccoli, wild rice pilaf, salad, veggies, roast turkey, and fruit. They then packed the meals into identified boxes and hande