Summer in the Square: Everybody Eats

Overview

In a world where the next nuclear winter feels like a mere Doritos-coloured finger's tweet away, feel good initiatives that genuinely make the world a better place are more important than ever. Cue Everybody Eats: the Kiwi initiative that rescues food that would have otherwise ended up in landfill and uses it instead to host more pay-as-you-feel, pop-up banquets. "The whole idea of the paying system is that we don't know who is paying or how much they are paying – and we want to keep it like that," founder Nick Loosley told Love Food Hate Waste.

Food is sourced from food rescue charity Kiwi Harvest and local supermarkets – things like 'limp lettuce, brown bananas, day old bread and expired tins of tuna', which are then converted by a revolving set of chefs into a delicious supper to feed over a hundred mouths a sitting. In the past, chefs from Bird on a Wire, Mudbrick Winery and The Cult Project have lent a hand, as well as home cooks. Meals also get propped up with additional, fresh items like ice cream and cream for soup from previous weeks' donations to make them a little bit more special.

Everybody Eats usually runs on a weekly basis between 6 to 8pm every Monday night at Gemmayze St restaurant in St Kevins Arcade. On January 25 it will be making a special pop-up appearance in Aotea Square as part of the Summer in the Square series.