A fast-food restaurant that left free meals for the homeless outside its doors have been forced to take them directly to shelters after hungry revellers tucked in to the gifts.
Bosu Body Bar in Manchester specialises in selling healthy fast-food boxes that last up to 72 hours.
Instead of throwing away the leftovers like most restaurants, the team recently started placing the food outside its doors after noticing a sharp rise in people sleeping rough.
This simple act of kindness on the streets of Manchester went viral after the restaurant left food out for the homeless
Siblings Sarah and Michael Beck and business partners Oliver Drummond and Josef Ramzi-Faddoul have now launched The Bosu Project to help people in need by giving away any leftover food at the end of the day.
Their simple act of kindness has gone viral after they posted a picture of some takeaway bags outside the Cross Street shop.
Bosu Body Bar in Manchester promised to leave bags full of food outside for rough sleepers, some of which were taken by revellers
But they’ve had to start giving the leftover food to homeless charities and shelters, rather than leaving it outside as some hungry passers-by were helping themselves to the goods.
The restaurant wrote on Facebook: ‘When we close the doors for the day, we promise to leave bags outside full of tasty food.
The restaurant has encouraged people in the city centre and Didsbury to tell rough sleepers where they can find the free parcels
‘If you see anyone on the streets of Manchester or Didsbury who look hungry, let them know where they can find a meal in a bag. Spread the love always.’
Mr Beck said they never expected the huge reaction to the post, which has been shared and liked hundreds of times on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
After a busy day of trading in Manchester, Bosu Body Bar left food outside for the homeless
The restaurant’s social media posts about helping the homeless with free food have gone viral
Bosu body Bar said the response to its method of helping the homeless was ‘overwhelming’
He told the MEN: ‘We post pictures of food all day long and sometimes they don’t get any attention, then we woke up the next morning and I’ve never seen that many likes and shares.
‘It was quite overwhelming. We’re not the only ones doing it and we’re certainly not the only people who care about people in need, but hopefully other people who have seen it will now do the same.
Food not eaten during restaurant hours was left in the street for Manchester’s homeless to collect and eat but is now taken to shelters
‘It’s either that or the bin, it’s as simple as that.’
Bosu Body Bar launched in Chorlton in 2015 before branching out to Didsbury. The team have since turned the Chorlton site on Barlow Moor Road into a Canadian-style cocktail bar, Alberta.
The city centre site has a new menu, building on its original protein box premise with meals such as protein burritos, chilli and sweet potato waffle burgers.