[MUSIC PLAYING] Over 50 million people struggle with where their next meal is coming from. These people have jobs. They're in school. They're looking for ways to build a better life and take care of their families. They're striving to live and grow, and thrive, just like you and I. But food insecurity, the grinding constant struggle to have enough food to feed your family, it threatens everything, and we think that is absurd. 

The tremendous efforts of food banks and soup kitchens, and hunger charities, it's not enough. And COVID has made a bad situation even worse. But this is America, there's a surplus of food in this country. So the problem isn't a lack of food, it's connectivity to that food. And we don't need to invent new complicated systems and supply chains to give people fed, there's already entire industries that do just that. Restaurants are a dependable way to serve quality, nutritious meals, and they're doing it all day, every day. 

And the solution to connect people to those meals, it fits right in your hand. 96% of the people in this country have a cell phone. It doesn't matter whether you sleep in a penthouse or sleep in a car, a phone in your hand connects you to the world. Mobile technology has been used to disrupt so many unmet needs for at-risk communities, but its full potential has never been directed towards food insecurity, until now. 

Bento is a text-based service that offers easy stigma-free access to nutritious meals. People enrolled in the program text the word hungry to Bento and they're instantly texted a list of nearby restaurants where they can choose a meal and pick it up to go just like anyone else. There's no long distance trip, there's no missing work or school, no risk of anxiety or shame keeping them from the meal they need, it's reliable access to healthy nutritious food in a data-driven frictionless way that they use on-demand again and again and again. 

It's not complicated. This is already working in cities around the country. It's feeding college students and kids, and entire families. It's fueling local economies and supporting their restaurants. We have the power to defy hunger. We have the power to end food insecurity in this country. We have the power to improve the health of our communities in a sustainable way. The solution is already in our hands. Let's defy hunger together. 

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