Subway partners with Feeding America to feed local people during pandemic

A Subway sandwich shop was targeted by a robber Sunday night, Oct. 30, 2016, off Bigger Road in Kettering. (File photo)

A Subway sandwich shop was targeted by a robber Sunday night, Oct. 30, 2016, off Bigger Road in Kettering. (File photo)
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By Bonnie Meibers
April 21, 2020
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Subway will donate a meal for every footlong purchased this month.

Subway and Feeding America announced they are teaming up to provide up to 15 million meals to feed people in need across the country during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Subway is donating the monetary equivalent of one meal for every footlong sold for takeout, catering and delivery. The sandwich chain will donate up to $1.5 million for those facing food insecurity.

This will benefit more than 200 Feeding America foodbanks across the country, including The Foodbank at 56 Armor Place in Dayton, Shared Harvest Foodbank at 5901 Dixie Highway in Fairfield, and Second Harvest Foodbank of Clark, Champaign & Logan Counties, 701 E. Columbia St. in Springfield.

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Bonnie Meibers is a general assignment reporter covering Greene County for the Dayton Daily News. She has been with the newspaper since July 2019.