Kick Off the UNoffoicial Start of Summer with the UNcookout!
#uncookout2020 serves up a way to celebrate our sense of community and to lend a little bit of support to some of the small businesses that make it so special.
Normally the parade and Community Cookout cap off Memorial Day Weekend with several hundred year ‘round and seasonal residents gathering together to observe the holiday and celebrate the unofficial kick-off of the summer season.
Since our cookout and even large family gatherings are out of the picture, why not use this as a chance to celebrate our community and support our local restaurants doing their best to provide takeout and curbside meals during these unique times?
We're encouraging everyone to support these local eateries over Memorial Day Weekend (May 22-25). Order a meal (or more!), snap a photo and upload it to Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtag #uncookout2020. We'll gather and share all of your photos as a way of showing we can still celebrate together and support our community and the small businesses that help make it so special.
How to Take Part
For Restaurants
Any restaurant or farmer/fisherman with direct-to-consumer sales on MDI is encouraged to take part.
If you’re open for all or part of Memorial Day Weekend (Friday, May 22 - Monday, May 25), we’re happy to promote your business for FREE!
Email us or send us a PM on Facebook with any details you’d like included in the promotion (contact info, location, hours, website or social media pages, logo, etc).
If you don’t have a digital logo to share, we’re happy to put a quick one together for you (we got an “A for effort” in middle school art class, so we’ll do the best we can).
We encourage you to share links to posts (including this blog post) on your own social media pages.
For The Public
We might not be able to gather in large groups, but that doesn’t mean your household can’t take part in an event together with the rest of our community!
Instead of a regular old cookout, consider a takeout or curbside meal from an MDI restaurant, or with ingredients provided by a local farmer or fishermen. You can do so at any point over Memorial Day Weekend (May 22-25).
Use your phone to snap a pic of the meal. Upload it to Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtag #uncookout2020. Feel free to share any details about the meal/ingredients as well.
We’ll gather all the photos and share them all as a display of our community spirit and support for the amazing local businesses that make our island so special.
You can post photos from ANY MDI restaurant, and if you’re not “home” quite yet, feel free to sharet a photo from where you are with the tag #uncookout2020 and we’d still like to share it!