Mark Bucher is more than a successful restaurateur and food service industry veteran. He is a
compassionate, community-aware change maker and innovative thinker. Since the coronavirus
pandemic hit, he has combined his food service expertise, entrepreneurial drive and generosity
to address often devastating food insecurity problems in the Washington, DC metro area.

Mark is co-owner of Medium Rare, the highly acclaimed steak and frites restaurant with
locations in Arlington, VA, Baltimore, MD, Bethesda, MD, Columbia, MD, Dallas, TX, DC’s Cleveland Park, New Orleans, LA and New York, NY.

At the beginning of the pandemic, he created Feed the Fridge to combat hunger in the metro region while helping pandemic-battered restaurants stay in business. Through the program, Bucher installs refrigerators at recreation centers and schools in the region’s food deserts and pays local restaurants to stock them with up to 100 freshly prepared meals every day. Those meals are available to anyone who’s hungry – no questions asked.

Feed the Fridge is not just another nonprofit. It’s a community experience touching – and
improving – thousands of lives. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Feed the Fridge has
served more than 7000,000 meals to those dealing with food insecurity. It even provided much
needed baby formula during the recent acute shortage. Mark also is one of the marquee Chefs of Taste of the NFL, a culinary and gridiron special event which raises funds for national nonprofit GENYOUth to help end student hunger.

Mark brings much more to the table than professional expertise and a desire to help. He brings
a deep understanding of real-world hunger-related issues, a profound commitment to
addressing those issues and the entrepreneurial know-how to find solutions that work and have
an immediate impact.