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In 2020, when COVID-19 forced schools to close, many children who benefited from free or reduced-prize meals at school lost that nutritional opportunity. Little Miner Taco in the Washington D.C. area wanted to help. The restaurant, which started as a food truck and now has stores in Brentwood and North Bethesda, Maryland, created Kid’s Eat Free, a program that gave children one free meal per day and fed thousands of kids in the following four years.
Now, as the company prepares to celebrate the July debut of a new location in Rockville Town Center with a grand opening fiesta on August 28, it has announced a new iteration of the kids’ meal program.
“We were doing a lot of research and wanted to find something to do next to help kids in our community,” says Lucia Ormaza, the company’s director of marketing and branding.
What they found was the Montgomery County Public Schools’ (MCPS) Educational Foundation’s Dine With Dignity, a program that raises money to cover the cost of school meals for families awaiting approval for free meals through the Free and Reduced-Priced Meals system.
“We reached out to Montgomery Country Public Schools, sat down with their team, and it was a super-perfect, great fit!” Ormaza says. Little Miner Taco’s new program, which began in early August, donates 100 percent of all sales from the $3 Kid’s Menu to help Montgomery County students pay off their lunch debt.
“We are debuting the program only at our Rockville store and hope to expand it to other stores in the future,” Ormaza says.
Watch for an update on the grand opening fiesta and Little Miner Taco’s first donation to MCPS soon!
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