It’s one of the silver linings of a pandemic and economic crisis: innovative solutions and partnerships. One such innovation—meant to help provide economic stimulus to restaurants and help seniors who are staying home and still need to eat—is the state’s Great Plates Delivered program, announced on April 24 by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Restaurants can sign up to prepare three hot meals a day, and delivery drivers bring them to the home of a qualified senior. Restaurants are reimbursed $60 for the three meals, and $6 for daily delivery costs. (That $60 figure is based on what state employees get as a per diem while traveling, in normal times.) In Monterey County, the city of Seaside is the first to get approved by state officials to administer Great Plates, and it starts Monday, May 11. The program is set to run through June 10. Googie…

City approved to administer Great Plates Delivered program, helping those in need, local restaurants, and suppliers SEASIDE – The city of Seaside has been approved to administer the state’s Great Plates Delivered program, partnering with local restaurants, to deliver three hot meals a day to qualified senior Seaside residents during shelter in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “This program is extremely important because it will be providing and delivering, at no cost to the individual, three nutritious meals a day to older adults who do not qualify for other federal and state-funded nutrition programs, and who are also unable to personally prepare or obtain meals on their own,” said Dan Meewis, Seaside recreation director. The Great Plates Delivered program aims to provide meals to adults 65 and older, and adults 60 to 64 who are at high risk, as defined by the Centers…

May 5, 2020 – Diners have long been many things to many Americans: a community gathering place, a late-night refuge, a comfort food haven. So it’s fitting that the first two restaurants in the Monterey Bay area to begin partnering with their respective cities on “Great Plates Delivered: Home meals for Seniors”—bringing nutrition and comfort to local seniors three meals a day—are diners. To view full article, visit: https://www.ediblemontereybay.com/blog/local-diners-join-californias-great-plates-program/

Mike Hale, The Grub Hunter: Googie Grill goes ‘Jetsons’ in Seaside By Mike Hale The Grub Hunter POSTED: 05/06/14, 12:01 AM PDT | SEASIDE >> Googie is a funny-sounding, vowel-draped word that has nothing to do with a search engine (it’s pointless and probably illegal to Googie someone). And it’s not another word for baby talk, or a synonym for mucus, or the name of an outcast Teletubbie. Googie is the exaggerated modern architecture seen in the coffee shops and bowling alleys of the 1950s and 1960s, defined by upswept roofs, geometric shapes, dramatic angles and a certain space-age, gee-whiz element (think “Jetsons” or Disney’s Tomorrowland). An intriguing new restaurant in Seaside will open in June as a casual neighborhood eatery that promises to recall the Googie era in fun, engaging ways. The Googie Grill at the “entrance” to Seaside (1520 Del Monte Blvd.)…

Down-Low Diner: Googie Grill in Seaside, CA Posted on February 19, 2015 at 9:22AM Author: Allyson Thommen George Jetson meets crazy good comfort food at the Googie Grill in Seaside, CA. So what is “googie” you may ask? When you google “googie” (say that three times fast) you soon realize where the modern grill on Del Monte Boulevard acquired its unique name. Googie is a type of futurist architecture dating back to the 50s and 60s, think Tomorrowland at Disneyland. The corner location across the street from the Embassy Suites is hard to miss and the Jetson-eque logo out front immediately sparks your interest. After continuously driving past the illuminated Googie Grill sign I just had to stop and take a peek inside. Interestingly enough, the original building now houses the restaurant’s counter and kitchen which has kept its novel character with tilted walls…