Our story
What started as one meal
became a movement.
In 2017, Nick Loosley hosted a pop-up dinner in Auckland with a single question: what if a restaurant served everyone, regardless of what they could pay? That night was packed. Eight years later we're a registered charity serving thousands of meals across three restaurants.
What we stand for
Restaurant-quality
Three-course menu cooked by trained chefs in real kitchens. Not a soup kitchen.
Pay what you can
Suggested koha covers tonight's meal — pay more to cover the next person, or less if you need to.
Rescued food
Every plate starts as ingredients that would otherwise be wasted. Nothing planned, everything fresh.
A short history
From pop-up to permanent.
- 2017
Pop-up dinner
Nick Loosley hosts the first pay-as-you-feel pop-up in Auckland. It sells out instantly.
- 2018
First Onehunga restaurant
Everybody Eats opens its doors permanently in Onehunga, Auckland.
- 2020
Wellington opens
We expand to central Wellington and feed a city through lockdowns.
- 2022
Glen Innes joins
A third restaurant opens in East Auckland, kindly supported by local funders.
- Today
350,000+ meals
Three restaurants, hundreds of volunteers, and one big pay-as-you-feel table.
Our impact