GoFundMe launched to help Vancouver food trucks after commissary kitchen fire
Global News
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help businesses who shared a commissary kitchen in Strathcona after a fire broke out in front of the building on Saturday.
A shared commissary kitchen in Strathcona was heavily damaged in a fire that sparked Saturday.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help all the businesses who lost their shared space, known as “The Comm,” and much of their equipment.
According to the post, the businesses affected are: Top Rope Birria, Mom’s Grilled Cheese Truck, Melt City Grilled Cheese, Modern Perogie, Shorba Bone Broth and Green Coast Coffee.
The shared fundraising goal is set at $135,000, with a separate campaign with a goal of $20,000 set up to support Shorba Bone Broth.
“All the things that we’ve amassed over the last two and a half years that weren’t with us at the moment on the truck, were lost unfortunately,” Kevin McKenzie, owner of Top Rope Birria, told Global News.
“Two double door commercial fridges, the same for freezers, all of our prep space, all of our racks, all of our inventory, we have a ton of stock at any given time.”
Business has now been put on pause while he and his staff figure out how to move forward along with the dozens of other people who worked out of the kitchen along East Hastings and Jackson Avenue.