Food resources during the COVID-19 school shutdown
Click on the name of the location to go to their website or Facebook page for more information.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND PARKS
Fort Wayne Community Schools ← click here for more details
Summary: FWCS will provide free breakfast & lunch for children at ALL elementary schools starting Tuesday, March 17. Meals are available by walk-up/drive-up for all kids, regardless of the school they attend, ages birth through high school from 10:30-1:30 daily. Children MUST be present.
East Allen County Schools ← click here for more details
Summary: East Allen County Schools will continue to provide meals, breakfast and lunch, to all of our EACS students and anyone in the EACS community who is 18 years of age and under during the closure period.
Families will pick up two packs per child. One will have 5 days worth of breakfasts and the other, 5 days worth of lunches. Click on the link above to read all the details.
Southwest Allen County Schools ← click here for more details
Meal pick-up directions for SACS Families on eLearning Days -
Monday - Friday, 11 am - 1 pm and 4 pm - 6 pm
Homestead High School Door 10A
Drive-up Service
Food Service Staff will be ready to deliver a meal for each SACS student. This is a drive-up service and families will not leave their cars. Drivers will be asked to provide the student’s name and ID number, along with which school they attend.
Northwest Allen County Schools ← click here for more details
Parents will call or email their orders for meals. Pickup will be at Carroll High School and Huntertown Elementary. Click on link above to find out all the details for ordering and pickup.
Allen County Parks Department ← click here for more details
Meals can be picked up starting Monday, March 16 between 4-5 pm at the following locations. You can drive up or walk up, but there will be no seating and no building admission.
RESTAURANTS
Lucille’s BBQ ← click here for more information
9011 Lima Rd
Fort Wayne, 46818
(260) 203-3937
Monday-Friday from 11am-1 pm, all children will receive a free sack lunch, no questions asked.
Willie’s Family Restaurant ← click here for more information
6342 Saint Joe Center Rd
Fort Wayne, 46835
(260) 485-3144
If the school closures have you concerned about your child not being able to eat breakfast and lunch please let me know. I will help. Please PM me or drop by and ask for Kim Campbell, all requests will be kept confidential.
P.S if you're ever worried about how you're going to feed your child, please contact us.
Caliente Cuban ← click here for more information
120 W. Wayne St
Fort Wayne, 46802
(260) 471-0900
For those of you who rely on the meals of FWCS to support your families, we would like to offer your children the opportunity to come in to Caliente for lunch to receive a bagged lunch containing a free half grilled cheese OR ham and cheese with chips.
Elmo’s Pizza and Subs (all locations) ← click here for more information
AND
Subway (only at 7405 Maplecrest Rd.)
We want to help ease the burden on our community during this time. ALL Elmo’s pizza & subs locations and the Subway located at 7405 Maplecrest Rd in Ft Wayne will be providing free bagged lunches for children, no questions asked!
These will be available at any time Monday-Friday as long as schools remain closed.
The Bluebird Restaurant ← click here for more information
4410 Bluffton Rd.
Fort Wayne, 46809
(260) 478-4976
We will be giving away FREE sack lunches at the restaurant starting on Monday to children that rely on school for food. There is NO judgement! If you do not want to come in, just give us a call and we will run it out to your car when you get here. This is such an unfortunate time but we will all get through this. We are here to help in any way we can! Please share and God bless!
Mancino’s ← click here for more information
1025 W. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne
(260) 471-1715
Company management said they will give free kids meals to children in the community who need them the most. Children can pick up their meal from Monday - Friday between 11 A.M. to 1 P.M.
a’Roma Pizza ← click here for more information
1123 East State
Fort Wayne, 46805
(260) 484-4012
We decided to lower all menu prices and will be offering free slices of our cafeteria cheese pizza for those in need. No questions asked just come in. Those slices will be available everyday at noon and on a 1st come 1st serve basis and limited to 1 slice per person.
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Updated 3.18.20 at 7:00 am