www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com Seventy meals a day, seven days a week, Bruce Kennedy and his employees at Universal Joint in Lawrenceville have been trying to support the workers at Northside Hospital Gwinnett in the way they know best: with food.
Universal Joint has been making meals to serve the staff at the hospital in Lawrenceville since late-March through its Feed Our Heroes effort. Costumers and other members of the community have been helping by raising money to pay for the meals.
It’s a way the restaurant is showing backing to hospital workers working on the front line of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic.
“It’s been really good,” said Kennedy, who owns Universal Joint. “It’s been a blessing. You get to see those guys and they’re really happy to have you come over to see them.”
Kennedy and his staff at Universal Joint recently hit a major milestone by delivering their 1,000th meal to Northside Gwinnett. The idea was inspired by a Meal Bridge effort in Decatur where local restaurants were enlisted to help provide meals that are provided to hospital workers at Emory.
“I see doing this until no one wants to do it anymore,” Kennedy said. “I’m going to keep this thing going with the meals at least another month, or maybe do it until this COVID thing is completely over with.”
The Universal Joint staff makes 35 meals to be delivered in the morning and another 35 meals to be delivered in the afternoon while following strict protocols to make sure there is no potential for COVID-19 to be spread.
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