Scale is going to be critical here - it has to make sense for a shelter or a food bank to pick up whatever a restaurant is offering, and there's probably a thre

Scale is going to be critical here - it has to make sense for a shelter or a food bank to pick up whatever a restaurant is offering, and there's probably a threshold number of meals below which the cost of gas and travel time doesn't justify picking up the meals. Meanwhile, if the shelter collects and saves up its tickets, the restaurant has to be ready for bulk orders, so to speak.