Fast Company reports on a non-profit, Farming Hope, that is hosting pop-up dinners in San Francisco where guests pay $55 for a multi-course gourmet meal. Other guests are homeless. The diners all sat together and talked, eating food prepared by people who are also homeless. The employees were hired as they were identified as individuals who wanted to find jobs and begin to move out of homelessness.
“We want an environment where it’s not just a restaurant where no one who’s very poor is coming to eat, and it’s not just a soup kitchen, where it’s only homeless people eating donated food as quickly as possible,” says Jamie Stark, one of the co-founders of Farming Hope. “It’s a nice environment where people want to be, where there’s a unique mix of people, and where some of that empathy and understanding and human-centered thinking can spread.”
A true example of our belief that there is room for everyone at the table.
“We want an environment where it’s not just a restaurant where no one who’s very poor is coming to eat, and it’s not just a soup kitchen, where it’s only homeless people eating donated food as quickly as possible,” says Jamie Stark, one of the co-founders of Farming Hope. “It’s a nice environment where people want to be, where there’s a unique mix of people, and where some of that empathy and understanding and human-centered thinking can spread.”
A true example of our belief that there is room for everyone at the table.
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