QuickChek Helps Thousands of Local Families

Convenience retailer’s team members sorted and boxed food donations for 5,000 New Jersey families.

March 16, 2015

HILLSIDE, NJ – QuickChek Corporation recently helped thousands of area families in need with its latest contribution to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

More than 40 QuickChek employees, including corporate vice presidents and managers from the company’s headquarters in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, and team members from various stores volunteered at the FoodBank on March 12. When their three-hour shift was over, they had sorted and boxed enough food to feed 5,000 New Jersey families. This was the company’s second outing to the FoodBank in the past five months. More than 50 QuickChek team members bagged enough food in a single day last fall to feed 6,200 families before Thanksgiving. 

“Being in the food business, partnering with community food banks where we have stores was a natural fit when we were looking for additional ways to get further involved with our local communities,” said QuickChek CEO Dean Durling, whose family-owned company has raised millions of dollars for causes that benefit children, families and military veterans. 

QuickChek became a new partner of the Community FoodBank’s Check-Out Hunger® campaign during the 2014 holiday season and raised $125,000 in just six weeks in November and December. All of the money raised benefits those in need within the counties in which QuickChek operates store locations.

“Our team sets very high goals, whether it’s in raising funds or in their volunteer efforts,” said Durling. “It is further testament that our team members embrace being active in our communities and work hard to be the neighborhood shopping destination in those communities.”

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