HMG Paints Supports Real Junk Food’s Manchester ‘Pay-As-You-Feel’ Restaurant

One of Manchester’s most influential people, Corin Bell, brought “The Real Junk Food Project” – a “pay-as-you-feel” non-profit restaurant – to the city, according to a press release from HMG Paints, who donated paint to the eatery.

The pop-up restaurant sources food “which would otherwise go to waste and creates nutritious meals to ‘feed bellies not bins.”

“So many Manchester based companies have supported us, it’s been overwhelming,” said Bell, the director of The Real Junk Food Project. “HMG Paints have supported the project since our first potential medium term pop-up in 2015, and they’re still helping us out now, which is just fantastic.”

HMG Paints said it is “similarly present” within the Waste Industry being activists through the “Paint Care” scheme, launched by the British Coatings Federation (BCF) in 2015, which primarily helps to solve the problem of leftover decorative paint in the UK.

“After following Corin and the team in their amazing progress for the last couple of years, it’s fantastic to see their passion and hard work really paying off,”  said Gracienne Ikin, HMG Paints marketing and communications executive. “HMG are humbled to be one of the great Manchester businesses who have pulled together to support Real Junk Food Manchester and stamp down on food waste and best before date stigma in the UK.” 

Founded in Leeds, the project aims to diminish the stereotype of sell by and best before dates and food, we as consumers and organisations currently label as food waste, per its website.  

There is a longer-term location now at 85 Oxford Street, M1 6EQ.






Photo courtesy Real Junk Food Manchester/Twitter (@realjunkfoodmcr)