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Regional Food Delivery
The Capital Area Food Bank of Texas Regional Food Delivery (RFD) program delivers perishable and packaged food items at no additional cost to centrally located drop sites in outlying areas that are easily accessible for the more remote agencies serving rural populations. RFD operates five days a week, delivering items to 121 CAFB Partner Agencies in 21 counties.
Every week, these agencies place orders with CAFB that include a wide variety of packaged and frozen goods. Food Bank staff members load the orders into the 48-ft. or 30-ft. refrigerated tractor-trailer and deliver them to a previously identified loading dock or parking lot in the targeted town. Additionally, fresh produce, dairy goods and other perishable items are added to the tractor-trailer.
Regional Partner Agencies meet the CAFB driver at the designated site, load their own vehicles with their orders and leave for the short drive to distribute within their community.
Before the Regional Food Delivery program began in 1993, all CAFB Partner Agencies in outlying counties had to make weekly trips to Austin to obtain packaged products and perishable foods. For other Partner Agencies, the journey to Austin meant transportation costs that otherwise could have been used in agency programs and services.
Furthermore, because the Food Bank was so far from so many Partner Agencies, they were significantly limited as to what frozen and refrigerated items they could safely transport back to their agency. It was extremely difficult for them to find the space and the proper refrigeration to take meat, produce and dairy products.
Special thanks to CAFB's Regional Food Delivery sponsors:
LCRA Employees and LCRA United Charities
CAFB's Regional Food Delivery program stretches throughout 21 Central Texas Counties, serving the following locations:
