diff --git a/content/sessionmutualbenefitmodelforrestraurantsandcommunities.md b/content/sessionmutualbenefitmodelforrestraurantsandcommunities.md index d134e0e..7b7203d 100644 --- a/content/sessionmutualbenefitmodelforrestraurantsandcommunities.md +++ b/content/sessionmutualbenefitmodelforrestraurantsandcommunities.md @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ --- title: "Mutual Benefit Model for Restaurants and Communities" --- + # Mutual Benefit Model for Restaurants and Communities -### Problems: +### Problems + * Small business restaurants * are shuttering en masse as their dining rooms become uninhabitable due to the possibility of virus transmission, * causing thousands of people to lose their source of income and ability to sustain themselves and their families. @@ -12,7 +14,9 @@ title: "Mutual Benefit Model for Restaurants and Communities" * In order to suppress the rate of infection, people should be staying within those households as much as possible, ideally only leaving to replenish necessary supplies. * As available spaces for households to get their supplies (ie grocery stores) grows increasingly limited, those spaces become increased vectors of virus transmission. * The current shelter-in-place reality may be our norm for the next 12-18 months. -### Collaboration: + * +### Collaboration + * How might small business restaurants serve the needs of their communities and simultaneously maintain their businesses and workers? * Can we alleviate the dependency on grocery stores and decrease peoples’ need to leave their homes and potentially spread the virus? * Can we provide relief to households who are having to juggle too many tasks while living through a fearful situation? @@ -24,7 +28,8 @@ Restaurants might develop a new model for this time by providing a full meal pla A neighborhood focused model could be adapted and used in a multiplicity of contexts to incisively develop sustained communities that might push back against the spread of the virus. -### Benefits: +### Benefits + * Small business restaurants * A subscription service could provide more consistent and forecastable income. * Cooking larger serving sizes of food would allow more exact product orders and less food waste. @@ -37,7 +42,9 @@ A neighborhood focused model could be adapted and used in a multiplicity of cont * Reduce kitchen injuries and food handling issues to keep people out of hospitals. * Increased access to safely handled food with a reduction in the amount of touches on food products. * By organizing as a community to support a small business restaurant, individual costs go down when compared to ordering takeaway food on a per-meal basis. -### Considerations: + +### Considerations + * Could multiple restaurants work together to share workload and provide variety for their communities? * Could the week’s provisions be a combination of prepared food and essential grocery items? * How might this system meet a multiplicity of dietary needs and restrictions?