A popular Boston doughnut shop has donated enough money to pay for roughly a thousand meals to feed people in storm-ravaged Texas.
Rebecca Roth Gullo, owner of Blackbird Doughnuts, headquartered in Brighton, donated a day of proceeds to her friend, Jake Kalick of cookware company Made In, formerly in the North End and now in Austin, to disperse to restaurants there that are feeding people for free.
Roth Gullo was unavailable for comment on Saturday, but Elena Todisco, managing director of The Gallows Group, which owns Blackbird Doughnuts, said Roth Gullo and Kalick have been close friends for years.
“So when the need popped up, Rebecca knew she needed to do something,” Todisco said, “and she trusted Jake to do right by the donation.”
Almost half of Texas’ approximately 13 million people remained under boil-water advisories as of Friday.
In Austin, where more than 6 inches of snow was recorded, City Manager Spencer Cronk told reporters that more than 1 million gallons of water were expected to arrive by Sunday, and the city would set up distribution centers and deliver water to the elderly and other vulnerable residents.
But many people still have been left without food.
“It’s just an awful situation,” Kalick said. “I’ve been in Austin for a little over three years, and we would get mostly a dusting of snow maybe once a year. The city just wasn’t prepared for a snowstorm like this and how crippling it could be. People are without power, food and water. It’s been tragic.”
Kalick said he got a text from Roth Gullo last week telling him to let her know if he needed any Northeast support.
“I explained how bad it was, and she said, ‘I’m going to donate profits tomorrow. Can you find a way to disperse them?’ ” he said.
Made In and Kalick’s family’s company, Harbour Food Service Equipment, had been donating money to Austin restaurants to give free meals to people in the community since the snowstorm hit, he said, so he did the same with Roth Gullo’s donation, which he estimates paid for at least 1,000 meals.
“We work in hospitality. We feed people and we treat them well,” Todisco said. “So when you see a need for something as basic as food and water, there’s no question she needed to do something.”
One of the uplifting things that has happened since the storm, Kalick said, is that restaurants that had been open only for takeout or closed altogether due to the coronavirus pandemic stepped up to the plate to feed people in need.
“Restaurants have had such a hard time just keeping their heads above water, but they didn’t even think twice about jumping into action and helping, and Rebecca is a shining example of that,” he said. “It means a lot for our hometown of Boston to support Made In’s community in Austin.”
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