Save Twin Cities Eats: New Online Platform Connects Consumers with Local Food and Culinary Experiences

Article by Becky Fillinger

Save Twin Cities Eats, an extension of the Save the Eats movement, is being led by Vasiliki Papanikolopoulos. She grew up in South Minneapolis and is an advocate for local businesses. The local program launched on Sunday, May 3rd. “#SaveTwinCitiesEats was born out of a vision to showcase chefs and restaurants to the community – perhaps presenting their offerings in novel ways,” says Papanikolopoulos. The digital hub is currently operating unique sites in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, New York City, and now the Twin Cities.

What is it? It is a space for restaurants, bars and foodies to come together to offer and purchase unique culinary experiences (think tours, private dinner parties, high teas) and take-home dining opportunities to supply restaurants with critical revenue now. Save Twin Cities Eats takes no money - it is a completely volunteer movement to help our restaurants survive. 

To date, outreach to restaurants has been handled primarily by Jametta Raspberry of House of Gristle and Andrew Zimmern. Here are the next steps to take:

Restaurants - Get Listed

• Post culinary & beverage experiences & offers that can be redeemed later
• Post take-home dining options to be redeemed now
• Come back and make more than one offer. Update & create new offers frequently.
• Vasiliki will work with you to be creative in your offers. 

Customers -

Recruit your restaurants to Get Listed. Be a good community member and link/promote #SaveTwinCitiesEats and @SaveTwinCitiesEats in your social. 
 
We'll be covering the developments and stories along the way with Save Twin Cities Eats, follow us at EatMPLS to stay close.