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Today is World Kindness Day! Here at Essential, we are all about celebrating kindness, everyone can use more kindness in their lives - now more than ever. Even the smallest act of kindness can make a persons day a little brighter, or week feel a little more manageable.

As chefs, it is our nature to have each others backs. We encourage you to join us in bringing a smile to a fellow chefs face, who might be finding life a little tough at the moment. We’ve listed 30 ideas below.

1. Share a fellow chefs social profile
2. Host a giveaway giving your customers the chance to win a takeaway!
3. Like chefs post
4. Retweet another restaurants menu
5. Offer helpful advice to a fellow chef
6. Include a bottle of wine FOC in a customers takeaway order
7. Tweet a chef that you haven’t spoken to in a while
8. Share 10 inspirational social profiles
9. Include a dessert FOC to a customer
10. Plan a drink with a friend when restrictions allow
11. Tag a chef in a funny video
12. Plan drinks on zoom with your work pals
13. Smile at someone in the street
14. Send a box of chocolates to someone you know is struggling at the moment
15. Buy a voucher from a local restaurant
16. Plan a self care day
17. Help a chef with menu planning
18. Donate surplus ingredients to a homeless charity
19. FaceTime a chef to check they are okay
20. Cook a delicious meal for yourself / family
21. Give a chef a compliment
22. Thank someone who you appreciate
23. Listen to someone
24. Sign up to volunteer
25. Write a hand written note to someone you care about
26. Get yourself outside in the fresh air
27. Make a motivating music playlist for someone
28. Send a kind email to someone who helped shape who you are today
29. Tell someone you love them
30. Start a gratitude journal

Source: www.randomactsofkindness.org