Central Coast Restaurants Open During COVID-19 Crisis
So on March 20, we launched a Facebook Group intended to help restaurants cope with the COVID-19 restrictions while offering a forum for customers to post pictures of food and updates about what they’ve discovered about a particular restaurant’s current status or operations. The Facebook Group now has over 3,700 members and allows customers to ask questions about food options
while giving the restaurants a free source of advertising to post daily specials or new service options they are now offering. The Group can be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2479726225610434/
As the Group began to grow and more restaurants were added to the page, we decided to build a list of all of these restaurants, complete with their names, phone numbers, food type, hours of operations, service capabilities and more. The list now includes over 550 restaurants! The list even has separate tabs for different regions: North County (Paso Robles and Atascadero area), SLO, Coastal (Morro Bay Area), Five Cities (Arroyo Grande and Pismo Beach area), Santa Maria and Lompoc (includes Buellton area). The list can be found at bit.ly/centralcoastfood
Sensing that the community wanted to find a way to both help the restaurants AND show gratitude to our Health Care Workers, the Facebook Group launched an initiative to feed at least 100 hospital workers daily through various restaurants across the Central Coast. These meals are donated by the community (not the hard-hit restaurants) through pre-purchased meals bought at Participating Restaurants for $10/each. The hope is that when customers order from a Participating Restaurant, they will pay for their own food and then also buy some meals for the SLO an
d SB County employees that work in Health Care.
To find out more information, please feel free to reach out to Chad Jordan at chadjordanca@gmail.com