With many community members facing food insecurity, Tre Tapp wanted to do something to give back to the community around him.
So on the coldest Monday of the fall thus far, when temperatures hovered around 40 degrees, he and the rest of his team at The Chicken Hut offered a free boxed lunch to anyone impacted by recent SNAP benefit losses.
Tapp and his team gave away 400 pre-packaged meals at the Fayetteville Street location from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Recipients had to show their SNAP card to receive the lunch.
“People have been thanking us so much,” Tapp said. “I had one guy saying that he didn’t know how he was going to eat. Being that the people going through this situation, they don’t know how they’re going to put food on the table.”…