Local Restaurant Owners Serve 200 Free Lunches to Area Seniors Each Month

Christine and Jim Kelly have been in the restaurant business their entire lives and consider the local communities they serve at Chickie Flynn's in Foxborough their extended family.

That’s exactly why they are giving back to the seniors in those communities.

Christine said Chickie Flynn's offers a senior lunch for eight different towns, including Foxborough, Walpole, Wrentham, Plainville, Mansfield, North Attleboro and Medfield.

The local restaurant owner said Chickie Flynn takes 24 seniors from each town’s senior center twice a week and prepares and serves them a free lunch – with the exception of a $2.50 gratuity for the wait staff.

“We do that 11 months a year,” Christine said. “We take July off, but we do 200 [individual] lunches a month.”

She said last Wednesday they served the seniors of Walpole and Mansfield. North Attleboro’s seniors will be served this week.

Foxborough Patch reader, “Suddenly Senior,” said the Christine and Jim Kelly have shown “tremendous generosity to the community” their restaurants serve.

“This is how they have always done business, at Chickie Flynn's and formerly at Leona's,” the reader commented on the Patch story, “Chickie Flynn’s Owners Take Pride in Comfort Food Menu; Consider Foxborough Community ‘Extended Family.’” “They are a wonderful, community-oriented small business, with great homemade food and terrific service. A true gem.”

 In addition to the free senior lunches, Chickie Flynn's is also hosting its very first golf tournament to benefit the Foxborough Food Pantry.

“I’m really excited about it,” she said. “I kind of feel like people forget about it, especially in the summer time.”

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