Hakimian Holdings is working with its restaurant tenants to provide free meals to thank health care workers.
The first will be delivered to Baptist Health’s labor and delivery unit Downtown.
Paige Hakimian, vice president of real estate, said she reached out to The Loop Pizza Grill and Nothing Bundt Cakes in Hakimian’s Merchants Walk in San Jose to help.
She intended for Hakimian Holdings to buy the food, but those two tenants insisted on doing it for free.
“Everybody, regardless of their circumstances, recognizes what this health care community is doing for us,” she said. “We’re all tightening our belts but we’re going to give where we can. It seems like everybody’s on board with this.”
The company plans a delivery next week to UF Family Medicine and Pediatrics on Baymeadows Road. Hakimian Holdings selected the food providers by taking suggestions from staff.
Hakimian Holdings plans to work with Empanada Llama and Le Petite Paris Cafe in Merchants Walk to provide that meal.
The staff will choose another provider and restaurant tenant each week until there’s no longer a need for it, Hakimian said.
“Just knowing that the community is behind them gives them a little wind under their wings for sure,” she said.
Hakimian said the company has been helping tenants find loan information and apply to stay afloat.
If a tenant is having trouble paying rent, she said Hakimian is looking at “who comes to us and what the circumstances are,” but wants everyone to make it through financially.
“We’re in a partnership with our tenants,” Hakimian said. “We provide the brick and mortar, and they provide the great idea and services to our community. We can’t exist without each other.”