Recreate Our Community Kitchen Society (Whistler ROCKS) has reached an exciting turning point. A recent major donation will allow us to establish our kitchen space and cover the essential operating costs needed to build a sustainable community food program. But a kitchen alone doesn’t serve a meal — we also need the equipment to prepare, transport, hold and serve food safely and efficiently.

We are asking 100 Men of Whistler to help us equip the kitchen with the specialized catering and hot-holding equipment we need to deliver nutritious meals to our community. This includes commercial hot-holding equipment, Cambro food transport containers, hotel pans, rolling racks, sheet pans and large-volume cooking equipment. These items are surprisingly expensive, but they are durable, long-term investments that will serve ROCKS for many years. For example, a single insulated Cambro capable of safely transporting hot or cold food for up to four hours can cost approximately $2,000.

These practical tools will increase our ability to serve more people, more meals; 100+ nutritious hot meals at a time — while reducing volunteer workload, improving food safety and allowing us to grow our impact.

With this additional capacity in place, we will also have the opportunity to extend our reach into Whistler’s schools, providing nutritious hot meals to children and youth and using this same equipment to safely transport meals from our kitchen.