African Restaurant Week aims to support various small businesses in the community - it is 1 to 2 week celebration where various small businesses provide special offers to boost sales. It also includes various events like food festival, cooking classes, chef-hosted dinners and more - events that help amplify the message of our various small businesses and entrepreneurs. African Restaurant Week is an opportunity to help boost the local economy, come together to celebrate the food, people and culture of the African Diaspora and support the various local restaurants, chefs, caterers, cafes and various small businesses in our community. This is our 8th year and we are expanding to New Cities. WE ARE EXPANDING TO OTHER CITIES - Including Atlanta, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Miami, LA, Lagos, New Orleans, Bay area, Toronto, Johannesburg, Accra, Dakar, London, Paris, more cities to be announced. The difficulties suffered by our small businesses including our restaurants has made our mission even more critical.