County Seeks Vendors For Great Plates Program

The County is seeking local restaurants, caterers and other food business interested in preparing and delivering meals to older Santa Cruz County residents who face an elevated COVID-19, under the new Great Plates Delivered program.

A federal program designed to support adults 65 and older as well as adults 60-64 who are at high-risk from COVID-19 and are sheltering in place without access to food support, the program delivers up to three meals per day delivered from local restaurants and food providers to help them stay home and stay healthy. The program also provides a way for local food providers to maintain operations and staff.

Vendors must meet certain nutritional, delivery, and other requirements. If your business is interested in Great Plates Delivered, please email eoc032@santacruzcounty.us no later than May 11, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.

Please ensure to submit the following:

• Brief Description of your Food Service Restaurant or Facility.
• Proposed Example of Menu to be served to meet the requirements.
• Please include your average daily cost per person. This should be broken down into meal costs (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks), delivery costs, and admin costs. Reimbursement will be based on a daily cost to provide meal service per person.
• State if your restaurant would be willing to donate 6.25 percent of the meals delivered to count as the local share of cost.
• Date when service could begin.

Interested business should Click Here to download the PDF, which includes the Request for Information form. For more info, visit https://covid19.ca.gov/img/wp/great-plates-delivered-restaurants-faqs.pdf