{"id":4935,"date":"2018-09-11T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:23:47","slug":"bento-asian-kitchen-sushi-donates-10000-feeding-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/2018\/09\/bento-asian-kitchen-sushi-donates-10000-feeding-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"BENTO DONATES $10,000 TO FEEDING FLORIDA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Left to Right: Johnny Tung, Bento Co-founder; Andre Rivas, Bento HR Director; Tammy Laney, Bento Operations Director; Robin Safley, Executive Director of Feeding Florida<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bento Asian Kitchen + Sushi<\/strong>, a popular, quick-casual pan-Asian restaurant, recently announced a statewide donation campaign to raise funds for Feeding Florida, a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the meal gap in our state. With the goal of reaching $10,000, $1 from every build-a-pok\u00e9 purchase at all of Bento\u2019s nine locations across Florida went towards the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pok\u00e9 bowls at Bento are made-to-order and customizable \u2013 allowing guests to \u201cbuild\u201d their own bowls from more than 40 ingredients including traditional items like tuna, salmon, shrimp, avocado and cucumbers to the more adventurous mango, pineapple or even fried garlic. Ingredients can be served on top of white or brown rice, mixed greens, or a combination of any two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThank you to everyone who supported our Feeding Florida donation campaign this month. Our campaign launched on August 6 with the goal to help create greater awareness of hunger issues in Florida,\u201d said Bento co-founder Johnny Tung. \u201cWe are thrilled to announce that our $10,000 donation goal has already been achieved with over 10,000 poke bowls sold since the launch date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tung presented the $10,000 check to Robin Safley, executive director of Feeding Florida, on August 30 at Bento\u2019s downtown Orlando location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are so appreciative of this generous donation from the Bento community to help Feeding Florida\u2019s statewide network of food banks ensure a healthy, adequate, and consistent food supply for our neighbors facing hunger,\u201d said Safley. \u201cWe could not continue to fight hunger without the generous support from our corporate partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeding Florida works to feed more than 3.5 million hungry Floridians every year, including 1.1 million children and 700,000 seniors. Their networks provide healthy, adequate and consistent food supplies to those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BENTO Asian Kitchen + Sushi<\/a> is an Orlando-based quick-service restaurant serving pan-Asian cuisine. With the intent to bridge the gap between the more traditional Asian dining experience, and the first-generation Asian-American palate, brothers Jimmy and Johnny Tung opened Bento Asian Kitchen + Sushi in the summer of 2002. Bento was born as a 2,000 square-foot, 40-seat restaurant in a freshly built plaza a few blocks west of the University of Florida in Gainesville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, there are over nine locations across Florida, and a team of over 500 individuals. With plans of continued expansion on the horizon, Bento strives to remain true to the original vision \u2013 to present traditional Asian recipes in a colorful, fresh way \u2013 satisfying every appetite one roll, bowl and box at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read full article on citybizlist.com Bento Asian Kitchen + Sushi, a popular, quick-casual pan-Asian restaurant,…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}