All right, we're back on the back lot here.
We have Feeding San Diego here.
Francis Burnett is joining us ag
with some restaurants and vendo.
Look, this is a really important month
and the time is so desperate right now,
so many families are in need.
We're coming out of the pandemi,
Francis, where there was a great
need for food really hasn't gone down
right because of inflation and d
the other high costs of of of fd
and high cost of living here, r.
Absolutely, Eric.
The the need is as high as it ws
during the height of the pandem.
We're distributing about 35 miln
meals a year and we don't see it
slowing down because of the inflation.
Yeah, it's affecting everybody.
So you guys have some great
events coming up here.
This is a really important mont.
Tell us about this push.
To try to help out those
folks who need it right now,
Sure Alternative Strategies Marketing
is a company that has partneredh
eleven of their food and beverae
partners to to create a give bak
campaign during the month of Ju.
Awesome, cool.
Well,
we're going to meet some of thee
vendors here and I'll start wita
chef Kevin over here at Barley .
Nice to see
you again, Sir.
So you're involved in this effo.
Why did you guys decide to get
involved and help out feeding San Diego
I think I believe with with San Diego,
I mean native San Diego and Barley Mash,
we're just such a big part of San Diego and
just giving back to what a amazing cause.
I mean you can't go wrong with t
Feeding San Diego we're going to feed
you with a with our champ burge.
So how is that going to work?
Is it each burger that you buy r
so each burger that.
Our champ burger, if you order that then
a dollar every single time goes to this.
So we've already been selling
a lot this this month.
So it's a come on down.
That's the champ burger there is
yeah this is so we call it a ch.
We've actually won burger throw downs
at the San Diego Food and Wine Festival.
We did a CBS about 10 years agoa
little throw down with the same one and
wow so but it's our half pound Patty.
This is our ale braised pork shoulder.
We have our I've got messy with cheese
right now. Little pepper Jack cheese.
A little bit of the better.
Absolutely.
This thing is definitely a messy
burger so lots of napkins on that one.
Awesome. Chef. Kevin, I'm gonna go say hi to.
I'm gonna come back and probably sample that.
Hi. We have Mavericks here as w.
You guys excited to be involved in this?
Yes, always. Mavericks is always down to give
back especially to San Diego our home and.
This month, during the whole month of July,
we have $1.00 from each one of our slushies.
Our boozy slushies are
going to feeding San Diego.
So right now we have 3 varietie.
Our Watermelon Margarita, our Pa
Colada and our Coconut Vodka red Mask.
Your friend here, which is your favorite?
One of those three?
I personally love the Watermelo,
Margarita, slushie watermelon.
Yeah, it's so good and refreshing. What a great way to beat the heat, right?
That's exactly the heat
waves coming up right now.
So come and come to Mavericks,
get a slushie, cool down and
give back at the same time.
I love that try. There. OK.
And we got to check in with long Ball.
I've tried your beverages.
Very good. Very delicious.
19th hole, if you will. Yeah.
Yeah, you can. You can drink it
all day. We're doing a long bomb
Invitational. The 1st annual
proceeds going to Feeding San D.
That's our donation.
That's next week at Steel Canyon Golf Course.
We're all sold out.
But I just asked.
People keep giving.
Even if you can't play in the tournament,
just give.
Defeating San Diego it's a great cause.
Yeah. And tell us that for thoso
don't know what Long Ball is. Y,
brief synopsis.
Long Ball is a hard iced tea.
It's the drink of golf in San D,
almost 30 golf courses already
after only about 11-12 weeks
taking off like a rocket.
I have a couple things.
We have a 5% can and a 10%
can or one of them.
I'll give it a step real quick,
give you a little,
you can spruce it up there.
We could, we could do this
and if you want add a little,
a little bit of that,
add a little lemonade,
just give a little sweetness.
Try something like that.
That's refreshing. Yeah.
And that also is going
to cool you down, right?
So the slushy in this,
I think that sounds like a good afternoon.
All right, thanks guys.
I want to check back back
in with Francis real quick.
Francis,
remind everyone the website peoe
can go to help out because as oe
of our guests just mentioned,
we can help out
year round, right? This isn't
just for this event. Absolutely.
Our website is feeding sandiego.
There's a button that you can
click on that says get involved.
It shows ways to support any ofe
restaurants that are participatg
in this month long give Back on
our Shop and for A Cause page.
And there's also other ways to t
involved through food donations,
financial donations, and by volunteering
with food in San Diego.
We appreciate everything you gus
are doing for our community.
I do need to leave and just
try this slushy real quick.
Her recommendation? This one?
All right, here we go.