A La Carte Food Recovery Program
Our fleet of refrigerated trucks recover and re-distribute prepared meals at no cost to neighborhoods throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo counties where people face food insecurity in the Bay Area.
This service has allowed us to double our meal service capacity from 547,000 meals to over 1 million meals each year. We’re able to provide meals to feed hungry families, children, seniors, veterans, students, and disabled individuals throughout our Bay Area community - helping to combat food insecurity, increase hunger relief, and reduce waste. By becoming an active participant in the food recovery movement, we’ve become the largest prepared-food distribution program in the Bay Area. We are feeding hungry individuals while also reducing our carbon footprint and our partner food donors’ carbon footprint. Since it’s inception, ALC has recovered over 1.1 Million pounds of door that otherwise would had gone to the landfill or compost.
But we know there is still more work to be done - to share meals that serve as many of our hungry neighbors as possible.