On August 22, 2022, the US Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC), in partnership with Grubhub and the USBC Neighborhood Financial Improvement Company, introduced the launch of their new restaurant grant program.
The USBC restaurant grant program helps eating places obtain funding to handle enterprise alternatives and present challenges. The fund, made doable by the Grubhub Neighborhood Fund, will assist over $500,000 in grants to Black-owned eating places and culinary-based companies in choose cities like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and extra.
Concerning the grant
The USBC Restaurant Grant Program helps Black-owned eating places obtain funding to measurement up enterprise alternatives and handle present challenges. The partnership goals to present entry to capital and sources to make sure competitiveness in a altering publish COVID-19 restaurant panorama together with new expertise, gear, employees incentives, and constructing enhancements
This system will provide over $500,000 in grants to Black-owned eating places and culinary-based companies in choose cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Baltimore.
“We’re proud to accomplice with Grubhub,” mentioned Ron Busby Sr., President & CEO of USBC. “We’re
assured that this partnership will allow us to make a big affect within the Black restaurant
group. Offering a lot wanted capital to Black restaurant homeowners who’re recovering from the worldwide pandemic is crucial in empowering them to develop their companies.”
Utility submission for eating places in New York closes Friday, September 16, 2022, with roll outs to pick markets will proceed over the following six months. For these serious about taking part, please go to https://usblackchambers.org/grubhub/ to use.
100+ Black-owned companies will obtain between $2,500 – $10,000
22 eating places might be chosen to obtain $5,000 in grant funds from every metropolis and 1 fortunate restaurant from every metropolis will obtain $10,000.
Eligibility necessities:
- Enterprise should function within the US
- Your enterprise should have launched PRIOR to July 1, 2021
- Enterprise have to be authorized and for-profit
- Your enterprise generated no less than $10,000 in income since January 2021
- In a position to present income documentation
- You have been no less than 18 years outdated on June 30, 2020
- You determine as Black or African-American
- You’ve gotten an authorized Black-owned enterprise and/or are 51% Black-owned
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Strengthen your takeout and supply enterprise technique with Grubhub
With over 32 million diners on our app, Grubhub continues to assist join small companies to hungry, paying clients and understands the robust place many eating places have confronted prior to now few years.
“Eating places play an important function of their communities, and a part of Grubhub’s mission is to assist them thrive and have a optimistic affect on the folks they serve,” mentioned Dave Tovar, senior vice chairman of communications & authorities relations at Grubhub. “Whereas this can be a new partnership, the USBC has a monitor file of serving to Black-owned companies understand their potential and we’re excited to work collectively and lengthen this chance to the restaurant business.”
In a current report created with Technomic highlighting meals supply tendencies of 2022, 90% of surveyed shoppers anticipate constant or elevated utilization [of food delivery apps] going ahead.* With the meals supply tendencies ever altering, Grubhub is dedicated to be a pacesetter and useful resource to assist develop eating places of all types.
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*Supply: Technomic, Inc. restaurant business survey report (222) in partnership with Grubhub