Photo Courtesy of WGHP
For Amy Murphy, also known as “Chicken Lady”, the hardest part of feeding the homeless wasn’t wearing a chicken hat in public everyday, but working up the nerve to ask a restaurant for leftovers.
The people in Greensboro, North Carolina now refer to Murphy as the chicken lady, or, refer to her as “the lady in the funny hat.”
It helps her stand out in the crowd every Monday when she serves a hot meal to the homeless in town, which she’s been doing for years.
Murphy says she was out of her “comfort zone” and nervous about asking the manager at a fried chicken restaurant for unsold food when she first started.
“I’m trying to figure out how to ask him,” Murphy told WGHP news. “‘There are these people in this camp, and I wanted to see if – do you ever have any leftover chicken?’”
Blurting out that question got the manager on board with her idea. She’s been picking up chicken from that restaurant ever since – and more restaurants have started donating their unsold food as well.
And with that, getting over a case of butterflies in her own stomach helped Murphy put food in hundreds of hungry ones.