"'People are in need right now,' Gonzalez told San José Spotlight. 'The owners are really nice people and they're always giving. They even give to the homeless.'"
"'There are many, many children that are having to go through this right now,' she told San José Spotlight, referring to the food benefit freeze. 'Their parents are working, and they need that extra help, but now that extra help is gone.'"
Bay Area restaurants are offering free meals to children and discounts to parents while SNAP/CalFresh benefits are frozen due to the federal government shutdown. Tony & Alba's Pizza & Pasta in San Jose is providing free children's meals and a 25% discount to parents until SNAP is funded. Approximately 2 million of California's 5.5 million recipients are children. Owners cite personal experience with hardship as motivation and provide meals that include pizza or pasta, carrots, fruit, and milk or juice. Other local businesses, including Shrimp'n Ain't Eazy, Monster Pho, and Al Pastor Papi, have begun similar relief efforts.
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