On Monday, women and men were busy chopping fish, frying onions and stuffing arepas with items donated by people whose groceries would rot in fridges without power, as well as food purchased by the restaurant.Natali Alvarez, one of the owners of Hache Gourmet, said her restaurant opens Wednesdays through Sunday, and she and her business partner didn’t want to wait until Wednesday to find out if the food that was kept in freezers would still be edible by then.
That’s when they decided to announce on social media that the restaurant would be making the traditional stuffed corn-patty arepas and donating them to charitable foundations and hospitals.
“We prefer a thousand times to donate food that is in good condition than to wait until Wednesday to see what was going to happen with these blackouts,” Alvarez said.
