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Cisco Employees pitch in and fill 222 food boxes at Martha's Kitchen
December 19, 2005
By: Dean McCully

A hearty bunch of Ciscoites standing in front of 222 boxes of food that they just packed for Martha's Kitchen, San Jose.
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The SJ Police Department showed up with their horse trailer FILLED with food.


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PILES of food await us!


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As usual at Martha's Kitchen, Elliot leads the charge!


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Colleen quickly forms an assembly line.


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The SBEs instinctively set up a demand flow line.


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The place was a buzz with busy hands, building boxes, and loading food.


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Stacks and stacks of food.


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Boxes are a blur....


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The boxes line the walls. We have SO many boxes that we are seriously starting to worry about a fire code violation.


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The boxes lined up like an assembly line.


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Everybody is intently concentrating.


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Colleen is puttin in the bags of beans.


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The speed was fierce. An average of 15 seconds / box.


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The view from the stage. Tomorrow, this entire auditorium will be filled with hungry people.


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Here's the kitchen.


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And the unloading goes on outside.


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Yum, fresh veggies...


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And boxes of fresh romaine lettuce.


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The demand flow assembly line continues.


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Still piles of food, but the pile is shrinking fast!


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ALmost done....


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Getting down to the last dozen boxes.


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A typical food box, ready to go.


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We're running out of room for finished boxes.


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STACKS of food in the hallways!


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A hearty bunch of Ciscoites standing in front of 222 boxes of food that they just packed for Martha's Kitchen, San Jose.


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Roop, the straggler, gets into the act as well.


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And here's the aftermath. Our boxes were loaded onto the SJ Police Department horse trailer, along with piles of potatoes, destined for the disadvantaged families of San Jose.


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Dean McCully
Cisco employees from Colleen's group invade Martha's Kitchen and help load Holiday boxes of food as part of Cisco's "Giving Back" project.

The engineer in Colleen's people kicked in, we formed a demand-flow assembly line, and within an hour, we had loaded 222 boxes of food.

Thanx, everybody, for the help! Let's do it again soon!

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