Dishoom is an excellent example of a caring caterer. It is an Indian restaurant chain that has donated over five million meals to charity since it started its ‘Meal for a Meal’ initiative. It is helping to feed school children both in the UK and abroad.
In 2015, during Ramadan, Dishoom began working with Magic Breakfast to help them end hunger as a barrier to education in the UK.
Magic Breakfast is a charity with one objective – to make sure no child starts their school day too hungry to learn. It’s unbelievable that, in the UK, more than half a million children arrive at school too hungry or malnourished to learn!
Naved Nasir, the executive chef of all the Dishoom sites, explained “We have this philosophy of Zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam, which is the idea of selfless giving” – so they came up with the idea of a ‘Meal for a Meal’ initiative.
In addition, for every lunch and dinner eaten at each of the Dishoom restaurants, one child in India gets a school lunch in return, through the charity Akshaya Patra.