Love and Quiches Desserts maintains a time honored tradition of service to its local community that began not long after our Company's beginnings. Product is regularly donated to local service organizations and charities, including senior centers, police and fire departments, and the Salvation Army (from whom we received their Community Service Award). Love and Quiches Desserts participates in the annual Taste of Freeport, a charitable event for the benefit of Freeport Pride (a local organization dedicated to helping troubled teens). We also care about our "four-legged friends", and hold employee donation drives for our local Humane Society. Recipients of Love and Quiches Desserts donated product include Operation Pride of Freeport, Youth Outreach, the Coalition for Domestic Violence, Catholic Charities of Freeport, Ronald McDonald House, Island Harvest, the Harry Chapin Food Bank, Hope for the Future, the Hospice Care Network and the Les Turner ALS Foundation, among others. Love and Quiches Desserts' proactive stance on giving back has yielded numerous community service awards (most recently in Spring 2009 from the Town of Hempstead, in recognition of the Company's contribution towards the gentrification of the Village of Freeport).
In July of 2009, Love and Quiches Desserts launched its Cakes for Kids™ program, partnering with Long Island based charity Island Harvest. This program distributes birthday cakes on a monthly basis to disadvantaged children on Long Island through key Island Harvest distribution points. Monthly birthday parties are held, with the donated cakes served in recognition of the children's "special day". We at Love and Quiches Desserts think birthday parties should be a part of everyone's childhood, and we are proud and very happy to bring Cakes for Kids™ to the public.
GOING GREEN
We care about our planet and are actively seeking ways to be environmentally responsible. The Company has initiated recycling programs for paper; recycling bins can be found throughout the corporate offices, with signs admonishing employees to "please print only when necessary." All corrugated and plastic packaging used in the plant is made from recycled, 95% Post Consumer Waste. A new, more eco-friendly coffee supplier has been contracted and employees are encouraged to forego Styrofoam cups in favor of new, company issued ceramic coffee mugs. Additional green initiatives will be explored on a continual basis.
