Thread about Schmidt's giving back to the community. First let me say what we are doing, then I'll explain a bit. Starting Wednesday at 10:00 AM Schmidt's will be giving away free bread. We are going to have 2 loaves of french bread for anyone that walks through our doors. 
The idea is that the first loaf will be for you and your family. The second loaf is for you to give to somebody else who might benefit from the loaf. We are a community and we need to take care of one another.
Steve and Lucy Borg have owned Schmidt's and been active in the community for over 45 years. Their hearts break with what is going on with #COVIDー19 and they want to give back to the community.
As you know, Schmidt's is trying to stay open and provide jobs to our employees as long as we can. This bread giveaway will provide hours of work for our employees that we will pay them for, despite giving the product away for free.
We will start tomorrow with 200 loaves. We will be doing this daily for as long as we can. If we see more need, we will up our numbers for the following day. Obviously once the loaves are gone each day we will not have more until the following day.
There is absolutely no need to purchase anything to get your 2 loaves of bread. If you would like to donate to this cause, we will accept donations. All donations will go directly back into buying the ingredients and helping the labor for this production.
We hope that with a little act of kindness on our part, and providing you with the opportunity to help somebody else, that we can add some joy and happiness to the world of fear and anxiety that currently surrounds us. We are in this together. Thank you very much.
The bread will be available at all of our locations starting at 10:00 and will be available until we run out.
We will have the bread available each day for the foreseeable future starting at 10:00 AM daily.
People have been asking how to donate without coming into the bakeries. Our Venmo is @Schmidts-PastryCottage. Every dime will go directly back to the free bread project. Thanks everyone.
