{"id":240282,"date":"2021-05-01T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nj-brothers-start-cross-country-trek-to-support-restaurant-workers\/"},"modified":"2021-05-01T23:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T20:44:20","slug":"nj-brothers-start-cross-country-trek-to-support-restaurant-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nj-brothers-start-cross-country-trek-to-support-restaurant-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"#NJ brothers start cross-country trek to support restaurant workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NJ brothers start cross-country trek to support restaurant workers<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Two New Jersey mixologist brothers are raising the bar with a fundraising walk starting on the Asbury Park boardwalk Saturday morning that won\u2019t stop until they get to the Redwood Forest outside of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Aiden and Louis Ardine, of Middletown, N.J., saw how hard the COVID-driven lockdowns and slow reopening hurt their colleagues in the bar and restaurant industry over the past year, and came up with a plan to give something back, their website explains<\/a>. They dubbed the idea, \u201cWalking America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aiden, 28, and Louis, 27, both avid distance runners with a fondness for hiking and camping, mapp<\/a>ed out a 3,147-mile route that will take them through 11 states on their way across the country. They have friends and family along the way, but they told their hometown paper, The Two River Times<\/a>, that they will also rely on strangers they meet on their journey. They estimate they will go about 20 miles per day, which would make the trip<\/a> about five months long.<\/p>\n

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Aiden and Louis Ardine have been prepping to walk more than 3,000 miles.<\/figcaption>
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The idea began as an offhand joke during a trip to Vermont with friends, when Aiden said he would rather hike than keep looking for scarce jobs in restaurants operating under limited capacity restrictions. He spoke with his brother, and they came up with the plan to raise money for the nonprofit Restaurant Workers\u2019 Community Foundation<\/a>. Their goal is $30,000, or about $10 per mile, the cost of an average lunch.<\/p>\n

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Aiden and Louis Ardine will walk from Asbury Park to the Redwood National Forest outside San Francisco.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe wanted to do something to benefit restaurant workers who we feel have been left behind during this pandemic,\u201d Aiden told the Asbury Park Press<\/a>. \u201cService industry workers were finding it impossible to get unemployment benefits, or forced to go to work every day once restaurants were reopening and risk their well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

They prepared for the trip by speaking with others who\u2019ve done long distance hikes. Most of the trip will be on what Aiden called \u201cbackcountry highways,\u201d so that they\u2019re rarely further than 50 miles away from a town.<\/p>\n

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Aiden and Louis Ardine\u2019s walk will raising money for the Restaurant Workers\u2019 Community Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group.<\/figcaption>
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They plan to meet people in the culinary world when they stop for rest days along the way and will post on social media<\/a> about the restaurants they visit, Louis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe personally just want to meet people and get a feel for how other people live in the United States,\u201d Aiden said. \u201cGetting sort of away from our little New Jersey bubble.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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