A day after restaurants were forced to close in Kentucky, a line formed outside 610 Magnolia, a Louisville-based restaurant. Lindsay Ofcacek is general manager of 610 Magnolia and managing director of The LEE Initiative, a young chef mentoring nonprofit. She phoned Chef Edward Lee, and they hatched a plan to turn shuttered restaurants into relief centers for food service workers who’ve lost their jobs. Now other chefs nationwide are doing the same.
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