Mira Vista United Church of Christ and Planting Justice organizations come together to purchase vacant nursery to build a community meeting space, nonprofit cafe, and revitalized nursery.
“…it will have a “pay-what-you-can” café that will offer coffee drinks and grab-and-go food options made by local food entrepreneurs. The Good Table has been learning how to establish such a café from One World Everybody Eats, a Texas-based nonprofit dedicated to increasing food security that has built a pay-what-you-can nonprofit restaurant model.” —Deonna Anderson, Berkeleyside NOSH.
Read more at www.berkeleyside.com.
F.A.R.M. Cafe in Boone, North Carolina turns 7!
“I am amazed and humbled by the compassionate, supportive community that has allowed F.A.R.M. Cafe to be a part of the High Country. When we opened our doors in May of 2012, no one could have imagined all the stories and friendships that would emerge in this place where all are fed regardless of means”, says Renee Boughman, Chef and Executive Director of the cafe.
“Moving into our 8th year we can only say thank you for all of the volunteer hours, financial donations and emotional support you have given the cafe. You have opened the door to aid your neighbors struggling to find a place where they can be safe, enjoy a nutritious meal, and take a moment to breathe despite their circumstances. We celebrate this anniversary by sincerely thanking you, our generous community.”
Read more at www.hcpress.com.
One World Everybody Eats and its network of independent nonprofit cafes will participate in the first annual National Everybody Eats Week from August 25th – August 31st, 2019. National Everybody Eats Week is a nationally coordinated campaign to help consumers understand the power they have to end hunger in their own community.
One World Everybody Eats encourages all Americans to dine at a One World Everybody Eats café during National Everybody Eats Week. The organization boasts nearly 50 cafés in its network. You can find your local café at www.oneworldeverybodyeats.org. If you can’t find a local café near you, consider donating online at www.oneworldeverybodyeats.org to help launch one near you.
Taste Community Restaurant officially served its 1,000th brunch guest and is quickly becoming a favorite brunch spot in Fort Worth. The organization launched its weekend pay-what-you-can brunch service on Sunday, April 21st.
Taste Community Restaurant’s pay-what-you-can brunch service is the first step in expanding its service hours. The organizations efforts were initiated by seed funding from the United Way of Tarrant County’s Kernel Program. In November 2018, Taste Project pitched for seed funding and was awarded $10,000 to expand it’s pay-what-you-can lunch program already in operation.
“We are thrilled to be able to serve and help even more people in our community,” says Jeff Williams, Taste Project Founder and Executive Director. “A few extra hours each month may not sound like much; but, for folks in need it means greater access to healthy and nutritious food served with dignity.”
Read more at www.tasteproject.org.
Provision Community Restaurant announces the site of its pay-what-you-can restaurant scheduled to open in July, 2019!
Future cafe operator, Anna Wienke, says “[this building is] even bigger and better than what we had envisioned, as we have the opportunity to foster the growth of aspiring entrepreneurs in the food industry through our shared commercial kitchen."
Read more at www.citypages.com.
Spark Community Cafe is featured on local NBC Channel 18 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Watch more at www.lex18.com.
Christie Melby-Gibbons’ goal in opening Tricklebee Cafe in Milwaukee was to create access to healthy foods.
To Melby-Gibbons, food is more than something to eat; it is an opportunity. She has used food to lift spirits, strengthen a community and show her neighborhood that someone cares for their well-being. "This is my real calling,” she says. “To get food out of the waste stream and into people’s bellies, especially in places where people can’t afford it... So, we did it and it’s working.”
Read more at www.shepherdexpress.com
One World Everybody Eat’s longest running cafe, SAME Cafe, is the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Small Nonprofit Organization of the Year.
“Healthy food is not a luxury. Healthy food is a right, and we want to make sure that everybody understands that – and everybody has the right to access healthy food,” said Letisha Steele, Chef and Operations Manager for SAME Café.
Read more at www.denverchamber.org.
One World Everybody Eats’, Table Grace Cafe in Omaha Nebraska, has developed a musical based on the daily operation’s of its pay-what-you-can cafe through its ‘Music with A Mission’ program.
“The vision behind ‘Table Grace: The Musical’ is to get the mission of Table Grace out in the community in a new way,” she said. “It’s nourishing bodies and souls through music.”
Initial readings are Saturday April 27th, and Saturday May 4th.
Read more at www.omaha.com.
One World Everybody Eats is joining the global pay-it-forward day movement. On April 28th, 2019 countries across the world will unite with one common goal: to stand for kindness together.
Here are three ways you can pay-it-forward at a One World Everybody Eats cafe:
Dine with us.
Sign up to Volunteer.
Donate online.
There are countless ways you can spread kindness on Pay-It-Forward Day. One World Everybody Eats hopes you will spend part of your day at one of its independent cafes. But regardless, the organization hopes you spark kindness that lasts all year long!
As we say goodbye to Drexel University’s EAT Café we commend the University for the work it has done in West Philadelphia. Thousands of people ate, gave, and supported EAT Café and its community.
Pay-what-you-can restaurants are not exempt from the same challenges of traditional restaurants. According to the University of Ohio, 60% of traditional restaurants fail in the first year, and 80% of traditional restaurants fail in 5 years.
Nonprofit restaurants have added restrictions on access to capital; pressure to immediately build community; and expectations to solve large social issues, while also operating a fully functional restaurant. This is why nonprofit restaurants need extra support including grants, fundraising, and organizations like One World Everybody Eats.
Read more at www.oneworldeverybodyeats.org.
Fort Worth’s non-profit restaurant, Taste Community Restaurant, is named 2019 Best of Fort Worth for Best Atmosphere (Readers Pick).
“We are honored that our fellow Fort Worthian’s recognize the unique atmosphere of Taste Community Restaurant,” says Jeff Williams, Taste Project Founder and Executive Director. “We invite God to meet us here every day, and I hope this recognition only allows even more people to come ‘…taste and see the Lord is good.’”
Read more at www.tasteproject.org.
One World Everybody Eats Cafe, A Place at the Table in Raleigh North Carolina, opened in January 2018. Now, just over one year later, the organization announces expansion plans to double in size!
The expansion into the adjacent storefront will allow the cafe to maintain it’s original address, expand its seating, and install a full kitchen to serve even more of its community.
Founder Maggie Kane says, “…we are humbled by how generous Raleigh has been – first in helping us to open in 2018, and since, through grants, daily volunteer shifts and simply by making [A Place at the Table] your destination for breakfast and lunch.”
Read more at www.newsobserver.com.
The Cardinal Restaurant in Boone, North Carolina is taking over F.A.R.M. Cafe! For one day only, the American restaurant will be serving up deliciousness at F.A.R.M. Cafe and covering meal costs so that EVERY DOLLAR donated at F.A.R.M. Cafe will support the organization’s operation.
The Cardinal provides classic American road food with the freshest ingredients available. Both its menu and cocktail list feature an eclectic mix of hand crafted food and beverages; all prepared in house with an attention to taste and presentation. Its staff works hard to make sure that not only is your experience pleasurable, but that you have fun while you are with them.
Read more at www.wataugademocrat.com.
Thelma’s Kitchen was interviewed on the Open Belly podcast.
“…the mission of open belly is really to use food as a way to bring our community together, and that is what Thelma’s Kitchen is all about,” says Host Danielle Lehman.
Join the podcast at 26:30 as they interview Chef Pamela Infranca and Program Coordinator Sarah Tepikia.
Listen at www.openbelly.com.
Spark Community Cafe opened its doors to the community of Versailles today. Its mission is to ensure an excellent farm-to-table dining experience for all its guests, regardless of financial means.
If your pockets are full, pay-it-forward. If your pockets are light, pay-what-you-can. If your pockets are empty, you can volunteer your time.
Read more at www.sparkcommunitycafeky.org.
One World Everybody Eats cafe, Thelma’s Kitchen, is scheduled to host community influencers George and Eli Medina as they serve up lunch to its hungry community.
“The Medinas will be serving up delicious food, as well as making a financial contribution to KC’s first ever pay-what-you-can restaurant. ‘We are inviting our local friends and clients to swing by this unique establishment to see what a ‘pay what you can’ restaurant is all about,” said George. ‘We hope that through spreading the word we can get more people involved in this great cause.’”
Read more at www.prweb.com.
Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs is ‘Returning the Favor’ with his new series available on Facebook. In the upcoming Season 4, he features One World Everybody Eats cafe The Kitchen Table in Rochelle, Illinois.
“Not only did Rowe bring his film crew to shoot a TV show, he pitched in both by helping work at The Kitchen Table, and by donating $50,000 towards an expansion project that will build a new dining hall at the community cafe, located at 7034 Klondike Road in Rochelle.”
Read more at www.saukvalley.com.
Donna Bryson, of Denver Colorado’s Denverite writes about One World Everybody Eat’s Cafe, S.A.M.E. Cafe, as they launch their food truck!
“Reubendale said the crowds at the East Colfax site tucked between a hair salon and a bakery have made clear the 13-year-old enterprise needed to expand. But it could cost as much as $500,000 to open a new brick-and-mortar restaurant. He budgeted $120,000 for buying and outfitting the food truck and staffing and supplying it for a year, during which he can scout locations, refine planning and rally support for a second restaurant site.”
Read more at www.denverite.com.
One World Everybody Eats announces today the addition of Julie Williams as Board President, Thomas Brown as Board Vice-President, Donnell Jones-Craven as Board Secretary, and Erica Cunningham as Board Treasurer as the organization seeks to expand. And with deep appreciation for over 14 years of service, Denise Cerreta will transition from Board President to Board Advisor. Deb Casini Klein will also transition from Board Secretary to Board Advisor. And Fred Miller will continue as Director Emeritus.
One World Everybody Eats Cafe, Drexell and Honeybee’s in Brewton Alabama, was featured on ‘Simply Alabama’ Television Show. The show journeys throughout Alabama to uncover the many stories that make Alabama great!
Lisa Thomas-McMillan, and Freddie McMillan opened Drexell and Honeybees’s pay-what-you-can cafe in March of 2018. And together they are feeding and building their community.
“You cannot look at a person and tell if the’re hungry,” says cafe operator Lisa Thomas-McMillan. “…People can go to work everyday and make their living but they can still fall short. They can come in here and get a meal, and nobody [would] ever know it.”
Watch the full episode on www.youtube.com.
One World Everybody Eats Cafe, Soul Platter Cafe in Dubois, Pennsylvania is officially open!
“The café will run on hospitality, love and a willingness to get to know our neighbors. We envision [that] … folks from all walks of life will gather around a table.”
Read more at www.gantdaily.com.
One World Everybody Eats Cafe, S.A.M.E. Cafe, in Denver Colorado announces the launch of it’s S.A.M.E. Cafe Food Truck with the goal of bringing healthy and nutritious food into food deserts.
S.A.M.E. Cafe (So All May Eat) is One World Everybody Eat’s longest running cafe, in operation for over 13 years. The launch of its food truck will allow the organization to feed almost twice as many people in 2019 as it fed in 2018.
Thomas and Jennifer Wright are in the process of renovating a historic building in downtown Paola in an effort to save the building and serve their community.
“We feel God gave us that building, and he didn’t give it to us for our use,” says Thomas Wright. “God wants to feed the hungry in every way there is. Food provides sustenance, but the spirit is hungry too.”
The couple plans to call the pay-what-you-can restaurant, ‘What’s for Dinner’.
Read more at www.republic-online.com.
Taste Community Restaurant, Fort Worth’s non-profit restaurant, has earned Yelp’s status of ‘all-time Texas favorite’.
According to the National Restaurant Association, there are nearly 50,000 restaurants across the great state of Texas. But Yelp has narrowed down the all-time top 100 Texas favorites. And, coming in at #27 is Fort Worth’s non-profit pay-what-you-can restaurant: Taste Community Restaurant.
Food writer, Liz Peto, dines at One World Everybody Eats pay-what-you-can cafe, The Eat (Everyone At the Table) Cafe, in Philadelphia and documents her experience at Spotted by Locals.
The EAT Café is a not-for-profit restaurant that nourishes and unites the community. In Philadelphia, nearly 1 in 4 people is food insecure. The organization address food insecurity by serving delicious meals to all who walk through our door.
Read more at www.spottedbylocals.com.
Knead Cafe Celebrates two years of serving its community in New Kensingnton, Pennsylvania.
“Maybe the cafe shouldn’t work, but it thrives. It filled a need, and so the Knead fills,” says writer Brian O’Neill of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after spending lunch at the cafe.
Read more at www.post-gazette.com.
After more than three years of planning, Rev. Sarah Sedgwick, Erin Heath and Stefanie DuRussell prepare for opening day of Soul Platter Cafe by hosting several soft opening dates.
“Sarah, Stefanie and I remarked how wonderful it was to hear the laughter and chatter of our guests,” said Heath. “To see it all come together, from the fresh salad we picked, to the smells of the kitchen, to excited volunteers and the donations coming in before we are officially open, it’s just been a vision up until today. And now it’s real.”
Read more at www.thecourierexpress.com.
There are real challenges in operating a pay-what-you-can cafe, but behind all of those challenges are real people.
"The Panera Cares experiment didn't last nine weeks or nine months, but more like nine years. Very large numbers of people got free or low-priced food. Others were willing to use Panera Cares as a charitable mechanism by paying more for food."
Join the discussion at www.bbntimes.com.
One World Everybody Eats Cafes are providing healthy food and cultivating community in Appalachia! F.A.R.M Cafe in Boone, North Carolina, One Acre Cafe in Johnson City, Tennesee, and Grace Cafe in Danville, Kentucky are leading the way.
Read more at www.appvoices.org.