FORKS

Fuel. The owners called me to thank me for the food and were so lovely and offered me fuel — a great pay it forward!” Ruppenstein said in April.

“She said, ‘You have made our sister happy and we want to make your life a little easier.’ It was so nice. I cried,” Ruppenstein said.

Ruppenstein added that everyone has been so great throughout this experience.

“I feel so lucky to be in business and helping and making people happy,” she said.

“In our business, we have seen many times the grace of so many within our community when someone is sick, in need or celebrating a birth. We know the families going through cancer and the ones who have lost parents. Food is always the perfect

gift, so in some ways we were not surprised at the scale of which people gave,” Ruppenstein said.

“Ingrid and Michael Sarver of Nolen Lane started this and with just one post, it became something many of our customers wanted to be a part of. They did it to help the workers and support a local business,” she said.

“We gave all the meals at a discounted rate and make each meal special with a side and a sweet. We received calls and thankyou notes from the hospitals and the workers who enjoyed the food,” she said.

Four Forks opened in 2016 and is named after the forks that feed Ruppenstein’s four boys. It has evolved into a full service catering and event company. It also continues to focus on providing wholesome, healthy “home cooked” meals to busy families who find themselves eating take out or scrambling to prepare dinner too often than they would like.