Warehouse Safety
Market Staples
Name that Volunteer
Name the FA Team Member
Partner Agencies & Organizations
100

These type of shoes are required for all Metro Caring staff and volunteers.

What are closed-toed shoes?

100

These market staples when paired together make a complete protein.

What are rice and beans?

100

This volunteer makes coffee Monday mornings and can be most often found vacuuming.

Who is Costa?

100

This FA team member has a food named doggo.

Who is Andrew

100

We pick up grocery rescue every morning from these three grocery stores.

What are Trader Joe's Logan, Whole Foods Wash Park, Whole Foods Union Station.

200

Touching your hair, your phone, your face, or 30 minutes passing means you should do this.

What is wash your hands and change your gloves

200

We purchase 2800 pounds per week of this market staple.

What are potatoes?

200

This volunteer runs 3 miles and does 100 situps every morning before volunteering at Metro Caring.

Who is Pat Corser?

200

This FA team member was a competitive baton twirler from 2nd to 5th grade.

Who is Em

200

This partner organization distributes an average of 2,000+ pounds of hot food every Monday.

Who is Mutual Aid Monday?

300

An electric pallet jack lift this max load.

What is 3000 #?

300

3 local vendors or producers that we work with.

Who are: 

Barbers Foods

Grama Grass & Livestock

Wild Boyd Farm

POMA

Common Name Farm

Anisha Farms

MoBetta Green Marketplace

Common Harvest CO

300

This volunteer was a submariner for many years and has a doggo named Lola. 

Who is Brandon Green?

300

This FA team member has never crashed a Metro Caring truck.

Who is Emma?

300

This partner agency is our largest annual in-kind food source. 

Who is UNFI?

400

Forklift and Pallet Jack Certification is this class certification and requires recertification every 3 years.

What is Class III

400

This market staple was used to pay rent and as wedding gifts in the Middle Ages.

What are onions?

400

This volunteer duo are long-time friends and often are market check-in and check-out.

Who are Meg and Jennifer?

400

This FA Team member has a grandma who's cat's name is Onions.

Who is Graye?

400

These three partner organizations are members of our FARS program.

Who are: 

Mututal Aid Monday

Birdseed Collective

Denver Food Rescue

Denver Community Fridges

St. Ignatius of Loyola Food Pantry

EastColfax Partnership

Commun

Downtown Denver Islamic Center

500

The correct stacking order for storing meat on cooler shelves. (From top to bottom).

What is raw seafood/fish, raw steak, raw pork, raw ground beef, raw poultry.
500

This is the drafted food purchasing budget for FY2027 if we were to procure all of our market staples every week, in their needed quantity.

What is $460,000?

500

This volunteer drives Big Mama on Tuesdays and has been volunteering for over 5 years.

Who is Brian Johnson?

500

Which FA team member doesn't have a fire moon?

Who is Andrew?

500

We trade product weekly with this partner organization.

Who is We Don't Waste?