Description: The Restaurant Employee Relief Fund (RERF) provided grants to more than 43,000 restaurant industry employees who experienced hardship in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The Fund is now closed for new applications and our team is busy ensuring all awardees receive and access their RERF grant checks.
We are proud to report that the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund (RERF) is helping more than 43,000 restaurant workers who suffered financially due to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. We also want to thank our partner and industry icon, Guy Fieri, and the more than 50 companies and organizations and 15,000 individual donors for making RERF possible. Together, we raised more than $21.5 million for RERF and showed the nation just how important restaurant workers are to our industry and the communities
One-time $500 grants are being provided to restaurant workers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Approximately 60 percent of recipients are between the ages of 21 and 35 and nearly 60 percent identify as female. Fifty percent of grants went to racial minorities. Eighty percent of grant recipients reported earning less than $50,000 per year in household income before being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund is now closed for new applications an
Guy Fieri made The Bloomberg 50 list of people who defined an unprecedented year for his help in raising more than $21.5 million to assist unemployed restaurant workers through our Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. Click below to learn more and to explore the other game-changers of this year.