Pineville Tavern Launches Kids Meal Initiative During Coronavirus

PINEVILLE, PA — The Pineville Tavern is the latest local business offering help throughout the community during the coronavirus outbreak.

The restaurant will be making weekly deliveries of kid’s meals to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) and Fisherman’s Mark in Lambertville.

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The initiative works like this: The Pineville Tavern is offering a free kid’s meal and fresh squeezed lemonade with the purchase of any delivery or takeout order. (The restaurant is only open for take out an delivery orders due to the governor's order.)

Every order the restaurant receives for takeout or delivery, patrons will be asked if they’d like to keep the kid’s meal or donate it to feed local children in need. “We will make sure it is something delicious and healthy that kids will enjoy,” said owner Andrew Abruzzese.

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In addition to the meal donations to area food banks, the Pineville Tavern will donate 100 percent of restaurant gift card sales during this crisis to company employees who are not working. That's approximately 40 people.

“At the end of March we’ll divide the capital from the sale of gift cards and the funds will be distributed to our servers, bartenders, hosts and bussers — everyone who works inside our operation who isn’t able to work due to federal and local restrictions on serving guests in our dining rooms. Our workers are our family, and we’re going to do everything possible to help them through this uncertain time.”

Harvest in Newtown said Wednesday it had to lay off 70 employees from its local restaurant and will be diverting all funds from gift cards directly to those employees.

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