Brad Paisley expected his nonprofit The Store to feed about 300,000 people, per year.  Then the pandemic hit, and they went into overdrive.  They served one million meals – just in the month of January.

 

You want to talk about perfect timing AND rising to the challenge?  Let’s rewind, to about a year ago, when Brad Paisley opened The Store, his free grocery store in Nashville.

They had a number of meals that they were set up to give away . . . and then came COVID – and that plan got blown out of the water.

Paisly talked about it, on “The View”  … “We opened last year, and you can imagine, immediately we were hit with this crazy demand.  

“We expected to do about 300,000 meals last year.  And we ended up doing a million in January.  We weren’t even a year old, yet.  I don’t know how we did it.  But you rise to it, in a time like this.”  He and his wife, Kimberly Williams Paisley, have kept up the help, somehow.

(Here’s the video.  Starting at 3:31 he explains why he named it The Store, which we’ve talked about before.  The pandemic stuff starts at 3:58.)

 

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