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The front page of the Southern Smoke Foundation website prominently displays the slogan “Taking care of our own.” In the wake of COVID-19, those words extend to members of the service industry nationwide, too. While Houston’s hospitality industry has felt the big, negative impact of the COVID-19 situation and related shutdowns, it is not the […]

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April 8, 2020 Shelby Hodge

$1 Million Gift to Houston Chef’s Foundation is a Big Win for Hurting Restaurant Workers

It’s hard to imagine and golden to hear that the just-announced $1 million gift from the New York-based Restaurant Workers Community Foundation to Houston-based Southern Smoke Foundation is just the beginning. James Beard Award winning chef and S…

April 6, 2020 Shelby Hodge

Houston Chef’s Nonprofit Gives More Than $300,000 to Hurting Restaurant Workers

As of Monday, chef extraordinaire Chris Shepherd’s Southern Smoke Foundation has distributed, since the start of the pandemic, close to $314,000 to restaurant and bar professionals whose lives have been upended by COVID-19. That is 161 COVID-19 g…