A new lunch spot has opened in the heart of Glasgow's IFSD, with
every coffee or sandwich purchase helping towards free after-school
meals for hungry primary school children.
Launch
Café at 99 Bothwell Street will open from 8am - 4pm, Monday -
Friday, serving a range of hot drinks, snacks, sandwiches, wraps,
salads and other refreshments. Simply buying one coffee will
provide a hot meal, bottled water and fruit for a child in the
city.
The social enterprise is the latest venture from Craig
Johnson, who started Launch Foods in 2018 to divert surplus
food, from some of Scotland's biggest food and drink companies, to
feed children in need of nutritious meals outside school hours. The
charity has so far provided more than a quarter of a million free
meals to children in the city, with the new café set to boost those
numbers in the months ahead.
Ahead of the opening, Launch Foods received a £40,000 funding
boost from Social Investment
Scotland to purchase essential catering equipment and was also
helped by HFD Group and
other partners with the fit out of the café, completed largely by
tradespeople involved in the construction of neighbouring 177
Bothwell Street.