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Dunkin’ Donates 1,000 Pounds Of Coffee to Food Bank Of CNY Dunkin' gives 1,000 lbs of coffee to Food Bank of CNY

By Andrew Rubino

Inside the Food Bank of Central New York sits over a half ton of donated Dunkin’ coffee.

The Food Bank serves eleven counties in the region.

Executive Director Kathleen Stress says the Dunkin’ donation provides comfort to its many users.

“Coffee offers normalcy to families, so you don’t feel like you’re in distress. So it’s really an opportunity to just serve something that you get everyday.”

Stress and the Food Bank of Central New York know winter can come quick in the region.

“We’ve had 40 degree days already starting in the beginning of fall, right? So nobody wants to be chilly, and a nice cup of coffee gives you a perk in the day, it’s warming.”

The Dunkin’ donation ends a charitable campaign the organization has had for the last calendar year with Central New York sports teams.

Every goal or run by the Syracuse Crunch, Utica Comets, Utica City FC or Syracuse Mets added a pound of coffee to the donation.

So how much is the donation worth?

“You know the average retail price is anywhere from $8.99 to $9.99, so if you do the math you’re looking at almost ten thousand dollars of coffee”

Fruits and vegetables make up a lot of the food bank’s inventory.

The executive director of the Food Bank does acknowledge that certain things can make a meal.

Dunkin’s charitable donation is a coveted item. The Food Bank puts the coffee on the shelves immediately.

The Food Bank of Central New York Executive Director Kathleen Stress said she expects the one thousand pound donation to run out within a week. Reporting live in Syracuse, I’m Andrew Rubino, NCC News.

Andrew Rubino, SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Dunkin’ donated 1,000 pounds of coffee to the Food Bank of Central New York on Wednesday. The donation is worth over $10,000, according to Eric Stensland, an integrated marketing manager for Dunkin’.

“Coffee offers normalcy to families, so you don’t feel like you’re in distress. So it’s really an opportunity to just serve something that you get everyday,” said Kathleen Stress, the executive director of the Food Bank of central New York.

Stress said she expects the food bank to run out of coffee by next week. Many of the food bank items are fruits and vegetables. Stress said she understands that coffee is a unique item for food bank users.

“We’ve had 40 degree days already starting in the beginning of fall, right? So nobody wants to be chilly, and a nice cup of coffee gives you a perk in the day, it’s warming,” Stress said.

The donation by Dunkin’ ends a charitable promise regarding Central New York sports teams. For every goal or run scored by the Utica Comets hockey team, Syracuse Crunch hockey team, Utica City FC indoor soccer team and the Syracuse Mets baseball team in the teams’ most previous season, Dunkin’ pledged a pound of coffee.

The Food Bank of central New York serves 11 counties in Central and Northern New York.

 

 

 

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