You can help feed hungry local kids by going out to eat during Tulsa Restaurant Week.
Restaurants from downtown to south Tulsa have special menus tomorrow through Sept. 20. Order from those, and the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma benefits.
Proceeds go to the food bank's Food for Kids program. Food bank data says one in four Tulsa-area kids are at risk of going to bed hungry any given night.
"Restaurant Week is actually one of our largest fundraisers for the Food for Kids program," said food bank spokeswoman Maggie Hoey. "Because of the generosity of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, every donation made during Restaurant Week is matched, up to $25,000."
In the past eight years, the food bank has received about $300,000 total from Tulsa Restaurant Week.
Food for Kids is a four-part program to help kids in need.
"We're sending them home with backpacks on Friday afternoons. We're providing fresh produce for children and their families," Hoey said. "We're feeding them when they're out of school and they don't have access to those breakfast and lunch feeding programs, and we're also establishing some school pantries in the community."
Participating restaurants are offering two- and three-course lunch and brunch menus and three-course dinner menus. A list of restaurants is available at the Tulsa Restaurant Week website.
