距离白宫餐厅不到一个街区不到一个街区移民食品旨在通过全球启发的融合碗将人们团结在桌子上，以增强积极的移民情绪。
餐厅opened on November 12, 2019—coincidentally on the same day that the美国最高法院听取了有关延期行动童年到来（DACA）案件的口头辩论。移民食品由Enrique Limardo，Peter Shechter和EzequielVázquez-Ger创立，旨在重建通过移民的当前态度胃膨出- 使用食物倡导原因。
“移民食品‘marries’ food and immigration advocacy. As a small business startup, we don’t have the cash to be philanthropic donors. That’s why we see traditional corporate responsibility in a whole new way. In this moment of division, we want to create easy paths for all of us to help immigrant communities in need,”解释说，移民食品传播与外展总监TéaIvanovic解释说。餐厅合作with five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to help accomplish this goal.
移民食品unites people by connecting customers with their impact partners. In addition to Limardo’s menu, the restaurant offers an engagement menu, which lists options, such as volunteer positions at NGOs and dates of protests, to encourage diners to contribute to the cause.
餐厅周三举办葡萄酒，“免费，人们可以参加有关移民的另一个主题的对话，同时享受折衷的欢乐时光菜单designed by Chef Enrique Limardo,” Ivanovic tells Food Tank.
当餐厅关闭时，他们为楼上的阁楼提供非政府组织to convene and provide English classes, workshops, legal clinics, and assistance with job search for immigrants.
Limardo和Vázquez-Ger在与食品有关的行业，Limardo担任厨师和餐馆老板，Vázquez-Ger在餐馆和企业家中工作。另一方面，斯克希特（Schechter）在努力进行移民食品之前与大型政治公司合作。
“The idea of Immigrant Food bridges two parallel lanes of my professional life: politics and advocacy on the one hand; food on the other,” Schechter explains when he tells Food Tank about his career transition. “When I worked as a consultant, I represented politicians, political parties, countries, and companies seeking strategic advice by using communications to solve problems… [Immigrant Food] also [uses] communications to advocate for immigrants, to partner with important NGOs and to make our own, small contribution to the fight against a new intolerance in America.”
Despite their different professional backgrounds, the three co-founders share a commonality of being first-generation immigrants. “In 2018, I commemorated the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death,” says Schechter. “My mother and father were both immigrants to the U.S. and this decade anniversary of my mom’s passing coincided with the surge of negative rhetoric against immigrants.”
“今天，“移民”一词似乎几乎变成了一个坏词，”伊万诺维奇指出。自餐厅开业以来美国总统唐纳德·特朗普发布了有关美国移民政策的新法规，这些法规可以减少移民的存在，例如对影响外国工人的H-1B签证的限制。“We don’t feel that way, and we also know that the vast majority of Americans (75 percent according to this year’s Gallup poll) believe that immigration is good for the United States.”
Schechter说：“我们为移民食品庆祝美国的故事而感到自豪，这实际上是移民的故事以及他们对我们国家的经济，文化以及食品的巨大积极影响。”“但是，我们更加自豪地通过代表公平和正义提倡当今的移民。”
