Sendik's Talking With our Mouths Full

Do the Cluck, Fill the Truck

Help Sendik’s Food Market Feed the Hungry 

WHO:             Sendik’s Food Market and Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin

WHAT:          Customers sign up for Sendik’s Fan Club and do the Chicken Dance  - Sendik’s will donate five meals for every dance

WHEN:          Saturday, October 15, 2011  9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

WHERE:       Sendik’s Food Market – Elm Grove, Franklin, Germantown, Grafton, Greenfield, Mequon, New Berlin, Wauwatosa and Whitefish Bay 

Milwaukee, Wis. –Sendik’s Food Market and Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin continue their partnership this fall with the “Do the Cluck, Fill the Truck” event to provide meals for families struggling with hunger. Come out and enjoy Sendik’s First Annual Fall Harvest Fest and strut your stuff for Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.  For every customer that signs up for the Sendik’s Fan Club and does the Chicken Dance, Sendik’s will donate five meals to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin. If you don’t want to cluck, just give a buck, which will also provide five meals to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.

In the past two years, demand for food is up 21%. Many families are forced to choose between paying bills or providing food. 330,000 people rely on Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin each year, 105,000 of whom are children. Community support from businesses like Sendik’s, helps Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin to distribute over 15 million pounds of food each year to those in need.

We hope to see you dancing in the aisles Saturday, October 15 at Balistreri owned and operated Sendik’s Food Markets.

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330,000 people in eastern Wisconsin rely on food supplied by Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin each year.  The food bank is the largest, private, nonprofit distributor of food in the state. Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin distributes more than 15 million pounds of food annually to 1,000 food pantries, meal programs and shelters throughout eastern Wisconsin.  Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is a member of Feeding America which is consistently ranked as one of the most efficient charities, out of the country’s 100 largest charities, by Forbes magazine.  Since 1982, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin has distributed more than 280 million pounds of food.  To learn more about hunger in Wisconsin, visit www.feedingamericawi.org.