Doughnuts for First Responders

What better way to add some sweetness to the lives of the healthcare workers than with Doughnuts for First Responders?

Free Doughnuts for First Responders

New York City’s beloved cult favorite Dough Doughnuts has joined the frontlines of providing free boxes of treats to hospitals and healthcare workers in the tri-state area who are tirelessly battling the COVID-19 pandemic to add a little happiness and sweetness to their lives.

It started with taking the proceeds from delivery orders that have already come through and making a generous gift of free doughnuts to Lenox Hill Hospital. A single Instagram story from the frontlines of the hospital made Dough realize they had to do more. The team kicked into high gear and created Frontline Sweet Support. The idea is to provide even more of the tri-state area’s frontline personnel with something that made them smile.

More on Frontline Sweet Support by Dough Doughnuts 

Dough Doughnuts has already made donations to several hospitals including Manhattan VA Medical Center, VA Medical Center, New York Presbyterian and Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine, Veteran’s Medical Center, NYU Langone Hospital and the Homeless at Bowery Mission.

How They Make Their Doughnuts In Era Of Covid-19

Dough Doughnuts is taking extra steps to make sure they are making their Doughnuts safely including the following guidelines:

1. All employees wear masks and gloves at all times while in our location. Employees must wash hands when entering the store, and every time they change their gloves.
2. All employees wear clean aprons/shirts/pants for every shift.
3. The kitchen and store are sanitized multiple times a day with commercial sanitizing solutions.
4. When they deliver to hospitals, all doughnuts are individually wrapped and packaged in bags to head out.
5. When delivering, their delivery driver also wears a mask and gloves and meets a health care worker at a designated pick up location, usually off campus of the hospital.
6. They only allow up to 2 customers/delivery drivers in the store at a time. All others are asked to wait outside in a line with 6 ft. of distance between themselves.
7. They have glass barriers in their store to separate customers from employees. Their kitchen is also separated by a door and glass wall from customers.
8. Only 4 employees (usually roughly 35 – 40) are currently working. Usually only 2 employees for most of the time in the store. They stay at least 6 ft. apart at all times.

To learn more, visit https://www.frontlinesweetsupport.org.

The Traveling Locavores applauds Dough Doughnuts for their generosity and for the extra effort they take to ensure the safety of their employees and everyone who enjoys their donuts.