For the last four years, Bonnie Kimball has been a lunch room attendant at a New Hampshire high school. But no more. She was recently let go for letting a student take food without paying. That’s correct, she was fired by the district manager of Café Services for “theft.” FYI: the student she helped out paid his $8 lunch tab the next morning.
Also, it was $8 and a student didn’t go hungry.
Although school officials and the food service company offered to rehire her, Kimball refused to go back saying, “they’re not doing it for me, they are doing it to save face.”1(We would agree.)
When world-famous Spanish chef, José Andrés, “who has helped provide millions of free meals to furloughed federal workers and natural disaster survivors”1 in Puerto Rico found out about Kimball’s actions, he called her a hero. But he didn’t stop there. He said on Twitter:
“If she needs a job we have openings at @thinkfoodgroup. If you know her, let her know.”
Curious who Andres is? Check out this 60 Minutes special on the Spaniard. Oh and he also thinks fruits and vegetables are the wave of the future! We love him!
“ThinkFoodGroup is the company behind Andrés’ hotels, products, initiatives and restaurants that span from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles, Vegas, Miami, as well as Puerto Rico and Mexico City.
Andrés was named one of the Top 100 most influential people in the world by TIME.”1
World Central Kitchen, his nonprofit, has provided hot meals for the survivors of Hurricane Florence, first responders in the California wildfires, volcano victims in Guatemala, migrants in Tijuana, and millions of Puerto Ricans who were left with nothing after Hurricane Maria. To learn more about that, check out his TED talk below…
Way to go, Chef!
SOURCE:
