Friday, December 8, at Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop.Thursday, December 7, at Tweedy’s and Radio Coffee & Beer.Wednesday, December 6, at LeRoy and Lewis.Saturday, December 2, at Burn Slow Emporium Pop-Up Flea Market and Hotel Vegas.Friday, December 1, at Joanne’s Fine Foods.The following fundraisers get Austinites out to their favorite spots and make various pledges: More in that vein: December's "12 Days of Free Lunch" gathers popular local business in food, beverages, and music that have pledged a certain portion of their sales on each day. It's a product that subscribers, or "Lunch Monitors" want. It's not a thank-you token for do-gooders. It's not just providing food in community fridges and cookouts, but paychecks and a business model for solving socioeconomic problems through rewarding work. Since sustainability as a business was Mills' goal from the beginning, the creatives that make Free Lunch are paid staff. I think there was something really romantic about the fact that they were receiving something tangible in the mail and not just a newsletter or something." "We started it during the pandemic, so I think people were really desperate for some sort of like intimate connection between people. "The tangible magazine get in the mail will be proof of what we said we would do with their money," says Mills.
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