Local restaurant owner teams with PSUSD to help families in need of food
KESQ News Team
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Some Palm Springs Unified School District students and their families enjoyed chicken teriyaki meals this week provided by a local restaurant owner hoping to help those in need of food.
Katherine Finchy Elementary School mom Tara Lazar wanted to help families struggling to buy food as soon as she heard about the SNAP benefit shutdown. Lazar, who owns several local restaurants and operates F10Love and Frankie the Food Truck, reached out to PSUSD to partner in providing 2,000 meals to PSUSD families impacted by the hold on SNAP payments.
The District identified and invited a total of 2,000 of its families in need to two meal distribution events – one in Desert Hot Springs on Tuesday, and one held Wednesday at Palm Springs High School.
Lazar said of the initiative, “I think us in the restaurant business, we, it’s our responsibility to do more. We have the access to it. We have access to food. We’ve had many generous donors for this.”
Lazar started F10Love during COVID and hopes this will be the first of many collaborative efforts with PSUSD.