$500,000 in Grants Funds to Help Black-Owned Eating places

On August 22, 2022, the US Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC), in partnership with Grubhub and the USBC Group Financial Growth 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 attainable by the Grubhub Group 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 dimension up enterprise alternatives and tackle present challenges. The partnership goals to present entry to capital and sources to make sure competitiveness in a altering put up COVID-19 restaurant panorama together with new know-how, tools, 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 companion with Grubhub,” stated Ron Busby Sr., President & CEO of USBC. “We’re

assured that this partnership will allow us to make a major influence within the Black restaurant

neighborhood. Offering a lot wanted capital to Black restaurant homeowners who’re recovering from the worldwide pandemic is important 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 subsequent six months. For these fascinated with collaborating, 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 small business will need to have launched PRIOR to July 1, 2021
  • Enterprise have to be authorized and for-profit
  • Your small business generated a minimum of $10,000 in income since January 2021
  • Capable of present income documentation
  • You have been a minimum of 18 years outdated on June 30, 2020
  • You establish as Black or African-American
  • You could have 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 a significant position of their communities, and a part of Grubhub’s mission is to assist them thrive and have a constructive influence on the folks they serve,” stated Dave Tovar, senior vp of communications & authorities relations at Grubhub. “Whereas this can be a new partnership, the USBC has a observe report of serving to Black-owned companies understand their potential and we’re excited to work collectively and lengthen this chance to the restaurant trade.”

In a current report created with Technomic highlighting meals supply traits of 2022, 90% of surveyed shoppers anticipate constant or elevated utilization [of food delivery apps] going ahead.* With the meals supply traits 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 trade survey report (222) in partnership with Grubhub