Chobani celebrated its fourth year of Let’s Eat Week with local employees participating in multiple activities through the week. During the event, 700 boxes of food were packed and distributed to local community organizations including Community Cupboard, Roots and Wings Food Pantry and the Oneonta CSD Backpack Program, among others. (Submitted photo)

NEW BERLIN — Chobani celebrated its fourth year of Let’s Eat Week with local employees participating in multiple activities through the week, including an event at the Chobani Community Center at the New Berlin fire station.

During the week, 700 boxes of food were packed and distributed to local community organizations including Community Cupboard, Roots and Wings Food Pantry and the Oneonta CSD Backpack Program, among others.

“In honor of UN World Food Day on October 16, Chobani hosted Let’s Eat Week,” said Allie Palazzolo, Chobani communications manager.

“The annual initiative brings employees, brand partners, and community organizations together through volunteering, partnership and education to help make good food more accessible,” Palazzolo said.

She noted Let’s Eat Week included 700 boxes packed in the Chobani South Edmeston location for local organizations. Four thousand boxes equaling 64,000 pounds of food were packed and distributed across Central New York, and 14,000 boxes packed across the U.S. will reach about 56,000 people with nutritious pantry staples.

“At Chobani we believe every child, every day, should hear the words, “let’s eat”,” Palazzolo continued. “Yet as the cost of putting nutritious food on the table continues to put pressure on families, access to healthy meals remains a challenge for too many people.”

“No single company can solve food insecurity alone,” said Palazzolo. “But together we can help make good food a little more accessible to those who need it most.”

With grocery prices 2.7% higher than a year ago as of July 2026, Palazzolo said the pressure on household food budgets isn’t going away.

“That’s why Chobani created Let’s Eat Week, a company-wide effort to fight food insecurity through volunteering and giving back in the communities we call home,” she added.

She said since launching in 2023, Let’s Eat Week has grown from a companywide volunteering initiative into a broader effort across other businesses and partners to nourish the communities where Chobani lives and works.

According to U.S. Department of Agriculture data, nearly 48 million Americans, including more than 14 million children, lived in food-insecure households in 2024.

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