Everybody Eats, a unique pay-what-you-feel restaurant
Episode description
Jamie Johnston is the Head Chef at Everybody Eats, a restaurant like no other. Everybody Eats delivers restaurant quality three course meals that are prepared by volunteers using food that would have gone to waste. The best part is that if you eat there, you pay-as-you-feel or pay-what-you-can.
A 2014 global survey found one in six Kiwis ran out of money for food, meaning we have one of the worst food insecurity problems in the developed world. Additionally, our society is becoming increasingly fragmented and we need more opportunities to come together and meet people from different walks of life. Everybody Eats addresses both these problems by inviting anyone and everyone to join each other for a meal at shared tables where food is cooked by volunteers
On this episode we talk about:
- How the monotony of kitchen tasks instils focus and discipline in cooks
- Building a supportive culture inside the commercial kitchen
- What it takes to run a restaurant where the menu, and staff changes daily
- Why food is both fuel and comfort
- How a plate of food, served in a dignified manner has the power to turn someone’s life around
Get involved as a volunteer or go for a meal to their Onehunga restaurant. www.everybodyeats.nz