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Organic Late-Night Meal Delivery For Portland’s Sex Workers
60 Second Docs | April 07, 2021
With more than 75 strip clubs in the city, Portland’s nightlife is as busy as it is hungry. Chef Nikeisah Newton, formerly incarcerated, now runs her “one-woman show” Meals 4 Heels -- the city’s only healthy, late-night meal delivery service specializing in sex workers’ nutritional needs.
Oregon chef caters to strippers, dominatrixes with late-night meals
Fox News | May 20, 2020
Late-night meal service: ‘Options for food shouldn’t just be Taco Bell’ One woman’s mission to give strippers a good late night meal.
My Real Portland - Season 3 Episode 4: Nikeisha Newton
Joe King | Feb 20, 2020
Recorded live at the Clinton Street Theater at 26th and Clinton in Portland Oregon.
‘Meals 4 Heels’: Portland chef makes food for sex workers
KOIN 6 | Sept 11, 2019
“I get them something beautiful to eat. In Portland, even though it’s known for its food scene, everything closes super early,” said Newton. “I make everything fresh to order. I personally deliver it myself. I wouldn’t serve anything I wouldn’t eat myself.”
Black Women In Food
Announces 7th Annual Awards And 2nd Annual Summit
Forbes, April 13, 2024
Selected from over 700 nominations, Nikeisah Newton, founder of Meals 4 Heels in Portland was honored as a Game Changer. She uses her love for food as a platform for women, sex workers + the LGBTQ community to thrive & reclaim their dignity.
Business Spotlight: Meals 4 Heels
Intentionalist, March 21, 2023
Her food began to catch people’s attention and in 2022, thanks to popular demand, Nikeisah opened the Meals 4 Heels brick-and-mortar location while continuing her meal deliveries on the side. Nikeisah’s all-vegetarian menu is jam-packed with healthy options like colorful rice bowls –
Meet Nikeisah Newton
CanvasRebel, Feb 20, 2023
Chefs note: IT WILL NEVER BE 100% before you open your doors. Pushing that fear of failure aside and taking that leap from employee to employer was the best decision I made for me. I still have self doubt + fears. I’m growing and becoming more business minded everyday! You can not put a price on that.
Meals 4 Heels’ Nikeisah Newton Dishes on Her Favorite Places to Eat in Portland
EATER Portland OR, May 22, 2022
Nikeisah Newton’s Meals 4 Heels is known to Portlanders as a food stall + late-night delivery service for sex workers and dancers. Her vegan and vegetarian menu, with items named after industry phrases like “Gettin That Paper” and “The Verbal Tipper,” is both functional and emotional.
Meals 4 Heels feeds Portland sex workers, and now
the wider community
OPB, May 24, 2021
There is nothing subtle about the tagline for Meals 4 Heels. It’s written in big block letters on the back of the T-shirts staff are wearing: “Pro Black, pro Brown, pro trans, pro science, pro hoe.” That directness makes sense, because there is also –
Sex Worker-Centric Food Delivery Service, Meals 4 Heels, Lands in a New Restaurant Space
EATER Portland OR, May 4, 2021
In 2019, veteran restaurant worker Nikeisah Newton started driving grain bowls and salads to strip clubs around the Portland area at 2 a.m., trying to feed under-served dancers and sex workers after shifts. Taking orders primarily through Instagram –
Meals 4 Heels - SBLC Client Profile
Lewis & Clark Law School, June 25, 2020
As Portland is both known for its eclectic food + high number of strip clubs, Nikeisah sought to combine these two themes into a niche industry that could supply healthy eating options for late night workers.
Meals 4 Heels
Hustler Magazine, Feb 2020
Shift work is a bitch, especially if your hours are completely out of whack with the kind of conveniences us nine-to-fivers take for granted. Things like, oh, I don’t know, eating? It’s a challenge and all-around pain in the ass, especially for sex workers, whose only options after long shifts –
Meals 4 Heels
Mercatus PDX, Jan 2020
“Sex workers are everywhere,” Newton says. “We all know someone who is a sex worker, [but we may not] know they’re a sex worker… this is bigger than Portland. It’s bigger than me + [and] it’s bigger than sex work. It’s caring for sex workers. It’s caring for –
America's strip club capital sees push for fair terms, labor rights … and food
The Guardian, Oct 30, 2019
Meals 4 Heals is offering healthy late-night takeout for sex workers and strippers, and it’s just part of a discussion on wellness and working conditions in the industry. Nikeisah Newton has cornered a market-
Meals 4 Six-Inch Heels
Food On Demand, Sept 18, 2019
This is not your typical food-delivery startup. For one, the founder isn’t a young, white dude pounding out code in a Bay Area WeWork. Founder Nikeisah Newton is a black, gay, and social-justice-minded chef living + working in Portland. And her company isn’t the promised panacea for society that drives a typical startup founder—it’s tailor-made for –
Oregon chef launches late-night meal delivery service for strippers
New York Post, Sept 10 2019
“It’s a physically and emotionally demanding job. The options for food shouldn’t just be Taco Bell,” Newton told SWNS. Newton originally got the idea for her business — which she now calls Meals 4 Heels.
Strippers Are Doing It For Themselves
New York Times, July 24, 2019
Around 10 most nights, Nikeisah Newton hops into her car for a 10-minute drive into downtown Portland, Ore., so that she can deliver healthy meals that include ingredients like massaged kale to strippers working the evening shift.
A Local Chef Created a
Service to Deliver Late-Night Health Food to Sex Workers
Willamette Week, July 9, 2019
There are few late-night food options in Portland, let alone healthy late-night options, and Newton’s girlfriend didn’t feel comfortable going anywhere sit-down after work. So Newton began cooking vegetable-rich comfort food to take to the strip –
The Food Truck Scholar Podcast
Food Truck Scholar S1 Ep29, Sept 30, 2019
Nikeisah has been gaining attention for not only her healthy and delectable meals, but her activism and volunteer work in the community to support those in sex work industry, Black Lives Matter, the trans community, local farmers and many others.
