September 22, 2025 If you have ever known or worked at a start-up company, you will often hear terms like employee #1 or employee #2. That’s because it’s a badge of honor for a person that was there from the beginning. We are very much the same.

September 16, 2025 What do we do when we are contacted to be the first agency partner to agree to pick up 3,000 pounds of beverages. We say YES within minutes. Now we have them.

September 15, 2025 Popsicles, including Bomb Pops, qualify as ice cream at our markets. That’s important because ice cream plays an important part of our markets. It’s all about kids.

September 5, 2025 We have been working on a lot to grow what we offer to the Serving Good community. One of our projects has been to develop a recipes section on our website that shares recipes that use the food at our markets. We are close…

August 17, 2025 Today is National Non-Profit Day and with that, we celebrate what we have accomplished. The past year has been incredible for all of us at Serving Good. We have grown very much like a start-up business.

August 3, 2025 When former Navy SEAL Don Zub (SEAL Team One, UDT-12, Class of ’91) contacted us to let us know that he was part of the team that was organizing the the 103rd birthday celebration for World War II Navy Gunners Mate First Class Lem Waggoner, Jr., we were the first to offer our support.
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August 2, 2025 Few things are more meaningful than when we hear heart-felt gratitude from someone that we serve. Just one card expressing gratitude energizes our entire staff and volunteers that create the Serving Good experience. Thank you Christine.

July 29, 2025 The story of Pablo gets even better. See “Pablo Appears” below. If you come to the Market, you might think you are seeing double. Why? Because Pablo is a twin. While Pablo knew that he worked himself into a new nickname, his brother didn’t know that he would be drawn into the “Pablo Saga”. See “Pablo Appears” below.

July 21, 2025 The Crostini Challenge (see July 2, 2025 “The Challenge”) turned out to be more than what we imagined. People shared what they created, with most sharing how they made everything with the ingredients from our market. What did they create? Much more than traditional bruschetta.

July 9, 2025 When we get so much of a specific food item, it can change how we refer to it. In the case of receiving over 100 pounds of pizza rolls, we decided to temporarily alter the four food groups.

July 2, 2025 What do you get when you when you pick up over 100 large bags of toasted crostinis? The Crostini Challenge. Typically, we would place them toward the back of the market for shopper to pick up on their way out. We changed this so we could have some fun.

June 20, 2025 Teaching and mentoring students is a priority. Serving Good creates a community that serves others. This includes teaching and guiding teens and young adults as they develop skills and become adults. We are passionate about this in every sense of the word.

June 10, 2025 We pick up a lot of pastries, which includes cakes. One week, we picked up pastries, including a birthday cake that had a message: Happy Birthday Pablo! So when the Market began, we wanted to see if maybe Pablo came to our Market. Well, we got a surprise.

June 2, 2025 Sometimes it’s not adults that step up and set an example in the Serving Good community. In this case it was a 15 year-old boy that didn’t hesitate to help when needed. We didn’t know who he was until we asked among our community of shoppers. We knew his name was Lucas and we wanted to thank him.

May 26, 2025 When we began picking up food for stores, we received some produce that was just not suitable for people. Yet we saw throwing it away as a waste. Early on, we developed relationships with local farms and ranches that could use this food. In the second quarter of this year, we formalized our Food for Farms program.

May 12, 2025 If you have been to our market recently, you probably noticed that we have been getting a lot of flowers from Trader Joe’s, including bouquets of flowers and potted flowers. One of our young market shoppers used these for a competition.

May 6, 2025 One of our partner organizations asked us if we were interested in a foam playhouse for kids. It was still in the box and had never been put together. Our answer to these questions is always yes.

April 27, 2025 Did you ever wonder how all that food gets to the market? Well, it is a combination of art and organization. It’s a bit like playing Tetris in some cases and in others, well it’s more like the art of creating a clown car of food.

April 21, 2025 Grocery Outlet has been doing inventory rotations again. We talked to the management and we arranged to get ALL of it.

April 13, 2025 This week we have some new additions to our market. First, we have multiple cases of hot sauce. The hot sauce bottles are small, but they all have a bit of a kick.