We have supported the asylum seeker response from the start. In October 2022, NYC Health + Hospitals relied exclusively on us to build its HERRC food and logistics program from scratch. Since then, we have grown from serving 600 asylum seekers at one site to tens of thousands across 11 sites. At the program’s peak, we served residents at 19 HERRC sites, 15 Housing and Preservation Development locations, and 5 New York City Emergency Management facilities.

Our residents come from many backgrounds, so our work begins before meal preparation. We carefully design and review menus to meet their varied tastes and dietary needs across our current network of 10 HERRC sites and 1 NYCEM Respite site.

Our work with DYCD began when we won a contract through a competitive bidding process. Since the first day of school in 2023, we have worked with DYCD to deliver and serve meals to children in city-sponsored programs outside school hours.

In January 2024, more NYC schools began calling. They had heard about our work and wanted an after-school meal provider who understood what children like to eat.

Our partners spread the word to hundreds of other schools. Today, we provide complete food preparation, storage, and delivery services for thousands of students in after-school and Saturday Night Lights programs. From our facilities in Long Island City and the Bronx, we deliver to more than 280 public schools and community centers six days a week.

How did one phone call lead to becoming a trusted provider of delicious, nutritious after-school meals for thousands of NYC children?

At Kommissary, we honor and support older adults so they can age with dignity, health, and peace. Through NYC’s Aging Home Delivered Meals Program, we provide holistic care in partnership with Korean Community Services (KCS), the oldest and largest community-based organization serving immigrant communities in NYC.

For older adults in Queens Community District 7, we will design, prepare, package, and deliver individually packaged meals. Our menus will include tailored Chinese, Korean, South American, and Mexican cuisines that reflect the area’s cultural and ethnic diversity. Door-to-door delivery five days a week, supported by multilingual case assistants, will focus on improving physical health, supporting mental well-being, and increasing meaningful social interaction.

As the city recovered from the worst of the pandemic, we were selected as the sole food vendor among 18 organizations working with NYC Health + Hospitals. For 211 consecutive days, we prepared and distributed 20,000 meals, along with testing kits, to the doorsteps of quarantined and food-insecure New Yorkers. This work was part of one of the country’s largest COVID-19 contact tracing programs.

We were a young company, but we were committed to ensuring access to proper nutrition without putting public health at risk. The City continues to recognize our commitment to caring for the wider community during a crisis.

During the COVID pandemic, our first public service effort was preparing and delivering 7.5 million individually packaged meals to the doors of food-insecure New Yorkers. Our kitchen and trucks operated for 568 consecutive days through lockdowns, snowstorms, hurricanes, and supply chain disruptions.

This work built our emergency response expertise. We learned to mobilize resources quickly, maintain quality, and protect access to essentials for the most vulnerable. It also clarified our mission: to be the City’s lifeline when traditional channels falter.