Food Riot Dickinson

10/11/2026

❤️ A LITTLE LOVE, A WHOLE LOT OF GRATITUDE, AND A BIG THANK YOU FROM FOOD RIOT FOUNDATION! ❤️

First, we need to say something to all of you who continue to show up for Food Riot Foundation. Whether you’ve been volunteering your time, rolling up your sleeves and getting things done, sponsoring us, donating money, contributing supplies, helping behind the scenes, or simply finding ways to support our mission, PLEASE KNOW HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE YOU! 🥹❤️

We owe so many of you thank-you posts, acknowledgments, and shout-outs, and we know we haven’t been keeping up the way we normally would. We actually have a growing collection of photos and notes documenting the generosity, hard work, and kindness so many of you have shown us. Those thank-yous are coming, and we look forward to sharing them! ❤️

In the meantime, we wanted to take a moment to let everyone know WHY things have been a little quieter on that front.

As many of you know, our family has been navigating an incredibly difficult and emotional personal battle involving the child welfare system in Williston and our fight to bring our granddaughter, Myra, home through adoption. It has taken an enormous amount of our time, energy, and emotional strength. Some days, just keeping our heads above water has been a challenge, and keeping up with everything we would normally do has fallen behind.

But please, NEVER mistake our silence for a lack of gratitude. Never think that because we haven’t posted a thank-you, we haven’t noticed what you’ve done. Never think that your hours of work, your donations, your sponsorships, or your willingness to stand beside us have gone unnoticed or unappreciated.

We see you. We appreciate you. We are grateful for you. And we love you for continuing to believe in what we’re doing, even when life gets messy on our end. ❤️

Because here’s the thing: Food Riot Foundation has never been about just one person, one family, or one kitchen. It’s about an entire community coming together to take care of its own.

Every meal served represents someone who cared enough to give, someone who volunteered their time, someone who donated what they could, or someone who believed that nobody in our community should go hungry.

That’s what makes this whole thing so special. We may be the ones coordinating things, cooking, and trying to keep everything moving, but we could NEVER do it without all of you. Every single contribution matters. Every volunteer matters. Every sponsor matters. Every dollar matters. Every act of kindness matters.

Food Riot Foundation is FOR the community, BY the community, and because of the community. ❤️🍽️

So, while we work through our personal challenges and slowly catch up on all those overdue thank-yous, please know that our hearts are full of gratitude for every single person who has helped us continue feeding our neighbors.

Thank you for showing up. Thank you for pitching in. Thank you for giving what you can. Thank you for caring about people you may never even meet. And thank you for reminding us that even when life gets hard, there is still so much good in this world.

We haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t forgotten what you’ve done. And we will never stop being grateful that you’re part of this crazy, beautiful Food Riot family. ❤️

WE LOVE YOU ALL, AND WE THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS! 🥹❤️🙏

With love and gratitude,

Jill and Jerry and the Food Riot Foundation family ❤️🍽️

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09/17/2026

Free Community Supper tonight is Chicken Strips and French Fries with Fresh Fruit and Salad Bar!
Everyone is welcome! Free Will donations are accepted but absolutely not required!
Thursday September 17 @ 30 7th St W from 4:30-6:00pm!

08/27/2026

Community mean tonight is hot dogs/fries and all the fixings.
Plus our amazing salad and fruit bar

08/06/2026

Still our ultimate goal, is to welcome our amazing daughter, Alice, home.
Ali, if you are reading this, we love you so much! Please come home! We will always have a place for you. 💕🙏🏻🏡💕

It’s been a little more than five years since we decided to move Food Riot into St. Joe’s Plaza. I have probably told the story about the F on the door and the Garfield poster in the office that pulled me into this odd location at least a hundred times. There were other locations that seemed better for a restaurant, but every time I tried to walk away, fate drew me back into that old hospital cafeteria kitchen. Five years later I have dozens of stories of struggles and hardships we’ve gone through in that building. So many stories, but zero regrets. Zero regrets because I have also witnessed miracles, big and small, happen in that building.
The biggest miracle was our own personal experience. Our daughter, Alice, had been struggling with addiction for nearly a decade, and just couldn’t shake her addictions no matter how much we all wanted to help her.
When we signed our lease at St Joe’s back in 2020, it was with the understanding that not only was Food Riot opening a restaurant in the basement of this huge empty hospital, but that we would also be establishing a food service kitchen that would be available to serve any future residential treatment centers that were considering a location in the plaza. I’d be lying if I wasn’t thinking “this could be a place for Alice” but hope faded as time went by. Alice’s life circumstances and health continually got worse.
Three years later, Heartview Foundation opened their doors and we served them their first meal. Amidst their opening, Alice called us from her tent in Seattle and said MOM IM PREGNANT WHAT DO I DO? I told her she didn’t have a choice, she had a baby to protect, she had to stop using, she had to come home. Alice got on a Greyhound to Dickinson, immediately enrolled into Heartview and became clean and sober for her daughter, who was born full term in perfect health! The photo below was taken in December of 2023, a few months before our granddaughter Myra Grace was born. 🙏🏻💕🙏🏻
We don’t expect to ever top that miracle, but after a year of uncertainty, we are excited to have found clarity on the next chapter for Food Riot.
After 5 years of Scharlie Kilzer and her amazing crew at Amen Food Pantry being our favorite back hall neighbors, we are officially licensed and approved to partner with them to use our kitchen and to assist them with providing hot meals to the community!
There are still some minor details to work out before we make a formal announcement, but it is officially happening!!
Watch for our next post about our soon to open FREE TO EVERYONE soup and salad bar!!
And yes, we do still hope and pray every day that this will, once again, become a place for Alice. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

07/07/2026

This evening's Community Kitchen Menu features: pulled pork sandwich, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, and a fruit bar.

07/03/2026

Last night was SO MUCH FUN!!! But due to the heat and our kitchens AC still not working, I had to retreat to my office for survival! 🥵
Because I was hiding from heat, I only got a portion of our amazing volunteers photographed and I’m regretting that!! Our cook Charles, who selflessly volunteers his time every Tuesday and Tuesday, decided to take it up a notch and together with our manager, Toni, another selfless volunteer who we rely on SO MUCH (thank you volunteers!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻)
Our bestie Shauna brought her amazing granddaughters and of course a bunch of our regular volunteers were running around just making magic happen, like they always do. 🥰🙏🏻🤩
Being able to share food with those who need it is a huge blessing. Our mission has proven to be so much bigger than that though! The relationships forming in the kitchen, in the dining room and beyond are simply beautiful. It’s a gathering spot where no one matters more (or less) than anyone else. We’re just so happy we’re here, and our biggest goal is to make everyone feel welcome. Our only hope is that when you exit our kitchen and/or dining area, as a volunteer or a diner, your belly feels a little fuller and your heart feels a little lighter. 🙏🏻💕🙏🏻
PS If anyone of you volunteers (Shauna, Kristin, Toni???) took pictures please feel free to share them! I know im missing so many cute faces in this post!!

07/02/2026

We would like to thank the amazing Charles Williams for not only being the BEST cook ever, but also sponsoring and directing tonight’s meal of smoked chicken drumsticks!! We appreciate you Charles!!! 😋💕🇺🇸😋

06/24/2026

Food. FUN and a great cause!! Bring your appetite for another amazing meal opportunity at the Food Riot Community kitchen.
This Friday, June 26, we will be selling Friday night pizza and buttery garlic breadsticks.🍕 from 4:00-6:00 pm.
We will also be selling our “almost” famous Campfire Teddy/250th American birthday Cannolis😋🧸.
Come get yours!!😍. Pre-order by messenger or stop in anytime on Friday to put your order in!!
***At this time we are cash or Venmo only, however, we are a 501c3 public charity therefore all proceeds are tax deductible and receipt available upon request.
All proceeds fall back into our community meals we serve twice a week!!
Menu:
Cheese pizza $12
Pepperoni or Sausage $14
Supreme $14
Garlic Breadsticks
-combos can be added😋
Large Cannolis 2/$10

We would like to give a HUGE shout out to our many volunteers and gracious donors as well as our partners on such a BLESSED adventure!!!
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