Can a 100% community-owned business provide high-quality, ethnically diverse, and healthy meals to Massachusetts residents?
Find out how City Fresh Foods is revolutionizing the food industry by feeding the state and creating jobs and ownership opportunities in Boston’s economically distressed neighbourhoods. Tour the 11,000-square-foot facility of this nationally recognized food service company with Founder and CEO Glynn Lloyd. Sample delicious food, and see first-hand the cutting-edge work City Fresh does to prepare and deliver 8,000 affordable, healthy and tasty meals each day.
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Guests toured City Fresh Foods “from the inside,” “talking shop with CEO and food justice pioneer Glynn Lloyd.” In addition to touring the kitchen and facilities, participants enjoyed an intimate round-table discussion with City Fresh’s co-founder. TEDx community members shared their own insights into American food culture and learned about an initiative to transform Boston’s 800 acres of vacant lots into community-supported agriculture.