Eadha Bakery Worker Co-op doles out free food to roughly 20 customers each and every day. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Eadha Bakery Worker Co-op doles out free food to roughly 20 customers each and every day. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Eadha Bakery Worker Co-op doles out free food to roughly 20 customers each and every day.
The giveaways aren’t the result of a daily sourdough sweepstake, but an intentional act of mutual aid. The bakery in the bright purple building on Ellice Avenue is one of three West End restaurants running pay-it-forward food-voucher programs that allow customers to buy a meal for someone without the means to do so. “It started because the neighbourhood that we’re in has a lot of people who are houseless and it’s a lower income area and, being a specialty bakery, we’re gentrifying the area, which is not the kind of thing we want to do,” Eadha worker-owner MacK Parman says.
“We want to be able to feed the people who need it.” MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Paying customers at Eadha Bakery Worker Co-op are pre-paying for menu vouchers that be claimed by whoever needs. A few blocks away, Feast Café Bistro and Hildegard’s Bakery have similar programs in place.
All three restaurants are in an area in which the median household income is less than $50,000. Instead of ignoring the social challenges that exist beyond their front doors, the respective .
