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As Philly restaurants shutter, massive amounts of food are at risk of going to waste. Here’s how to help.

"This is going to create a wave of excess food like we’ve never seen before.”

Evan Ehlers, right, founder of Sharing Excess, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that helps connect grocery stores and restaurants with surplus food to hunger-relief organizations with storage space, lifts up milk to weigh and load in a truck from Saxbys employee Haley Samsi, left, in Center City Philadelphia on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Sharing Excess has received much more food than usual due to restaurants closing from the spread of the coronavirus.
Evan Ehlers, right, founder of Sharing Excess, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that helps connect grocery stores and restaurants with surplus food to hunger-relief organizations with storage space, lifts up milk to weigh and load in a truck from Saxbys employee Haley Samsi, left, in Center City Philadelphia on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Sharing Excess has received much more food than usual due to restaurants closing from the spread of the coronavirus.Read moreHEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer