New California culinary center serves Kaiser Permanente, reaches for food justice goals.

Part meal production/distribution center and part food hub/business incubator, the center is a high-capacity operation that has created 150 living-wage jobs in San Francisco's East Bay. As part of Kaiser Permanente's goal to purchase 100% sustainable and local food by 2025, the healthcare system contracted with the new center to produce and distribute 2.5 million patient meals per year to all its 21 hospitals in the region. [Extracted from the article]

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