Aurora Restaurant To Give 1K Holiday Meals To Health Care Workers

AURORA, IL — Reuland Food Service in Aurora is set to deliver 1,000 hot meals to health care workers over the coming weeks after relaunching its highly successful “Feeding the Frontline” initiative.

Starting Thursday, Reuland Food Service will deliver oven-roasted chicken, garlic potatoes and a vegetable medley — or a vegetable lasagna — to employees at Rush Copley Medical Center, AMITA Health Mercy Medical Center and Advocate Health Care locations in the area, co-owner Ryan Reuland said.

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The restaurant at 115 Oak Ave. donated nearly 10,000 boxed lunches to first responders, hospitals and health care facilities in the spring. But Reuland said he and his staff wanted to provide “something a little more comforting” to health care workers who are “out there exposing themselves on a daily basis” while caring for patients.

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Amid a huge surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the region in recent weeks, many health care workers cannot even spend time with their families when they are not “working tirelessly,” Reuland said.

“They never got a break, and it seems even more intense right now,” Reuland said. “Our main focus was to just … give them a little something special during the Christmas season.”

Any donations made over the next week or so will provide more meals for health care workers in Aurora, Reuland said, though sponsored meals can be ordered at any time to donate to specific groups.

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Meals can be sponsored for $10 each, with Reuland Food Service set to donate 5 percent of that money to the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry and the Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry.

Reuland Food Service has “always been a community-focused business” since it opened 65 years ago, Reuland said, adding his grandparents taught the family to “help the community whenever they can.”

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For more information or to sponsor meals, visit Reuland Food Service's website or call 630-859-2877.

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