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Wetherspoons customer uses Eat Out To Help Out feed homeless people

“I’ve lived and worked in Manchester for just over a year,” Mr Dietrich said in the video. “The one issue I keep seeing is the issue with homelessness.”

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2020-08-20 13:37
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A Wetherspoons customer has used the Eat Out To Help Out scheme to help feed the homeless in Manchester.

Dominic Dietrich, a freelance sports reporter, used the Government scheme to buy discounted food, which he then distributed to people living on the streets in the area.

“On the first day of Eat Out To Help Out I was having food with mates in a restaurant for a fiver. I had a bit of a weird feeling thinking this could be used to help someone much more than me,” Mr Dietrich, 25 said.

“If you thought your 2020 was hard, imagine what it’s like for these people who have nowhere to go.”

He said he hopes the viral video “encourages other people to do the same”.

This is a class idea. My mate, Dom, has been using #EatOutToHelpOut and the Wetherspoons table game to help homeless people in Manchester pic.twitter.com/2asqhdIp3R

— Rob Adcock (@RobAdcock) August 19, 2020

In the clip, filmed and shared by Mr Dietrich’s friend Rob Adcock, the pair can be seen going into a Wetherspoons and encouraging friends to send food via the chain’s Table App.

The two then transferred the discounted food into plastic containers and took it to several people living on the streets of Manchester.

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“I’ve lived and worked in Manchester for just over a year,” Mr Dietrich said in the video. “The one issue I keep seeing is the issue with homelessness.”

Ongoing Pandemic

The reporter said he himself has lost out on work due to the ongoing pandemic.

He said: “I was sat there during the pandemic in my flat and I was being hard on myself because a bit of work has disappeared, but I’m sat in a flat with a roof over my head… I had to check myself a bit.”

(Rob Adcock and Dominic Dietrich)

Mr Dietrich said that helping the homeless is even more crucial now that many establishments are going cashless due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I suddenly realised that you can’t use change any more, you can’t use cash, that’s something they depend on,” he said.

Devastating

“You think of that disappearing out of their income, it’s heartbreaking and devastating.

“My mum’s always been aware of it and encouraged me to help out where I can… To actually go out and do it was incredible, it felt amazing.”

Bigup @domjdietrich Great idea. 🙌🙌

— Chris Stark (@Chris_Stark) August 19, 2020

The video has now received almost 150,000 views on Twitter, with BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Stark calling the viral video a “great idea”.

“I handed out meals to six or seven people, but the problem’s so much bigger than that,” Mr Dietrich told PA.

“The whole point of the video was to encourage other people to do the same wherever there are.

“So many people have got in touch saying next time they’d love to help and send food. We’d hopefully do it on a bigger scale if we were to do it again.”

Related – Sickening footage shows yobs pushing homeless man into canal

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