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There two different challenges? Confusing!
Just in case.....

This idea was first proposed in 2003. Perhaps it's time has come.

Loaves and fishes was to be a culinary training school, soup kitchen, and restaurant. It would train people on probation and other marginalized individuals food service skills that can be used anywhere in the World.
The soup kitchen would serve free nutrient-dense meals to seniors, pregnant and nursing mothers, people with compromised immune systems, and people with no money. The restaurant would sell simple, upscale meals to City employees, residents, and visitors.
The second part of Loaves And Fishes is to make sure most or all produce entering the City for Farmer's Markets is either eaten or composted that same day. One way to do this is for the City, or someone like Chevron or Bank of America, to buy whatever the farmers don't sell, and have the food prepared in various locations around the City. For example, food from the Civic Center farmer's market could be prepared at the Food Lab and distributed to St. Anthony's, Glide, Project Open Hand, and other locations. Catering trucks could serve as mini-commisaries at various out-of-the-way locations. Whatever isn't used would be composted, and eventualy distributed to community gardens.
Delancey Street Foundation operates the Delancey Street Restaurant on the Embarcadero, and the Crossroads Cafe on Delancey St, where I had two poached eggs, two bacon, and sourdough toast with fresh butter and marmalade for $4.88.. No, it wasn't soy bacon.The mocha was excellent, too But I digress. Both operations are run for and by ex-offenders and substance abusers. Both programs are self sustaining; donations and grants, no public money. For this project, I would expect the City to kick in somehow, perhaps by buying all the produce that enters the City each day.