Share Our Strength is a national organization working to end childhood hunger and poverty in the United States . Share Our Strength holds culinary events, solicits individual donations, and uses social media to raise funds, which are then used to fund long-term solutions to the hunger problem. Through corporate sponsorships, Share Our Strength funds are significantly magnified. No Kid Hungry is a national campaign run by Share Our Strength.
16-576: Daniel Meyer (born March 14, 1958) is a New York City restaurateur and the founder and executive chairman of the Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG). Meyer was born and raised in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis, Missouri the son of Roxanne (née Harris) and Morton L. Meyer. His father was the president of a travel, hospitality and real estate company in St. Louis. His grandfather
32-643: A cocktail cookbook, Mix Shake Stir (Little, Brown) featuring 140 recipes, along with tips, anecdotes and photography. Meyer has served on the boards of Share Our Strength and City Harvest . In addition, he served as Co-Chair of the Union Square Partnership for five years, and as an executive committee member for NYC & Co and the Madison Square Park Conservancy . Four of USHG's restaurants have earned three stars from The New York Times ; Eleven Madison Park
48-874: A degree in political science, Meyer worked in Chicago as Cook County field director for John Anderson's 1980 independent presidential campaign . Meyer gained his first restaurant experience in 1984 as an assistant manager at Pesca, an Italian seafood restaurant in the Flatiron District of New York City. He then returned to Europe to study cooking as a culinary stagiaire in Italy and Bordeaux , France. In 1985, at age 27, Meyer opened his first restaurant, Union Square Cafe . Meyer's other restaurants and businesses include Gramercy Tavern , Blue Smoke and Jazz Standard, Shake Shack , Daily Provisions, Ci Siamo, The Modern, Cafe 2 and Terrace 5 at MoMA , Maialino (formerly at
64-538: The Gramercy Park Hotel ), Untitled at the North End Grill, Marta, Porchlight, GreenRiver, Union Square Events, and Hospitality Quotient. Union Square Events, USHG's catering division, operates several concessions at major sports facilities including Citi Field , Saratoga Race Course , and Nationals Park . In 2010, Meyer suffered his first restaurant closure, Tabla. In a statement, Meyer blamed
80-526: The IACP Julia Child Award for the best new cookbook by a first-time author, and was followed up with the highly acclaimed Second Helpings from Union Square Cafe (HarperCollins, 2001). Meyer also wrote The New York Times bestseller Setting the Table (HarperCollins, 2006), which examines the power of hospitality in restaurants, business, and life. In May 2009, Meyer's restaurants released
96-467: The French noun is restauratrice . A less common variant spelling restauranteur is formed from the "more familiar" term restaurant with the French suffix -eur borrowed from restaurateur . It is considered a misspelling by some. The Oxford English Dictionary gives examples of this variant (described as "originally American") going back to 1837. H. L. Mencken said that in using this form he
112-575: The closure on the specificity of the Indian cuisine offered by the restaurant. That same year, Meyer participated in a documentary called "The Restaurateur". In late 2011, Union Square Hospitality group sold Eleven Madison Park to its chef Daniel Humm and front-of-house director Will Guidara . In 2018, North End Grill closed. In 2015, Meyer announced that he would eliminate tipping at all of his restaurants. The move increased prices by approximately 21 percent and led to large portions of his staff leaving
128-466: The company. As COVID-19 swept through the United States , Meyer shuttered all his restaurants, criticized other businesses for opening, and stated that he did not expect to offer full service until a vaccine was available. In a May 1 Vanity Fair podcast, Meyer explained that taking a Paycheck Protection Program loan, intended to help small businesses, "could be the most irresponsible thing in
144-606: The intersection between hospitality and humanity, and why we’re all invested in the hospitality business. He talked food, love and business on the Gary Vee Audio Experience Podcast In 1988, Meyer married Audrey Rayelyn Heffernan in an interfaith Roman Catholic and Jewish service at Unitarian Church of All Souls in Manhattan. Restaurateur A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time
160-612: The organization came under fire for declining a $ 200,000 donation from the American rapper 6ix9ine . Laura Washburn, the strategic communications director of No Kid Hungry, stated: "We are grateful for Mr. Hernandez's generous offer to donate to No Kid Hungry but we have informed his representatives that we have declined this donation...As a child-focused campaign, it is our policy to decline funding from donors whose activities do not align with our mission and values." 6ix9ine responded on Instagram , saying, "@nokidhungry rather take food out
176-538: The term has come to describe any person who owns a restaurant, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of the restaurant business. The French word restaurateur comes from the Late Latin term restaurator ("restorer") and from the Latin term restaurare . The word restaurateur is simply French for a person who owns or runs a restaurant. The feminine form of
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#1732787906041192-483: The world for a restaurant to do." In July, it emerged that twelve separate Meyer restaurants received loans. Meyer's company, Union Square Hospitality Group, received between $ 11.4 and $ 27 million in PPP loans. Shake Shack earlier claimed to return its PPP assistance following media attention." Meyer co-wrote The Union Square Cafe Cookbook ( HarperCollins , 1994) with his business partner, Chef Michael Romano. The book earned
208-701: Was Chicago businessman and philanthropist, Irving B. Harris . He attended John Burroughs School and as child, Meyer attended Camp Nebagamon for boys in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin . During college, Meyer worked for his father as a tour guide in Rome and then returned there to study international politics. Meyer was a Brother of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity while at Trinity College in Hartford , Connecticut . After graduating from Trinity in 1980 with
224-588: Was awarded a Wine Spectator Grand Award in 2016. Meyer and USHG have won 28 James Beard Foundation Awards . Meyer was interviewed by Reid Hoffman on the Masters of Scale podcast, where he talked about how he ignored conventional wisdom to revolutionize the restaurant industry. He appeared on The Ringer's House of Carbs Podcast, where he presented his Washington D.C. establishment "Maialino Mare" and talked about his career in hospitality. Danny Meyer most recently appeared on The Knowledge Project Podcast to discuss
240-705: Was upgraded to four stars in 2009. USHG's restaurants routinely appear among the Most Popular in New York City according to the Zagat guide, including Union Square Cafe, which has held the #1 spot nine times. Eleven Madison Park held three Michelin Stars , The Modern earned its second Michelin Star in 2015, Gramercy Tavern holds one Michelin Star, and GreenRiver was awarded one Michelin Star in 2016. In 2016, The Modern
256-535: Was using an American, not a French, word. Share Our Strength Share Our Strength was founded in 1984 by brother and sister Billy and Debbie Shore, who continue to lead the organization today. It "began in the basement of a row house on Capitol Hill", and from the beginning, it was focused on looking for long-term solutions to seemingly eternal problems. During these early years, Share Our Strength focused almost exclusively on fundraising and granted its funds out entirely to other nonprofit organizations. In 2020,
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