The Crescent City Cafe is a place of compassion and hope, where guests are served delicious meals with dignity, barriers are broken, and neighbors experience the joy of serving together. The Saturday Cafes currently host free, restaurant-style breakfasts twice a month for people experiencing food insecurity and plan to expand and open a pay-what-you-can community cafe. Since serving our first breakfast in 2009, we have provided our guests the chance to be served a delicious meal while simultaneously being treated with dignity and respect.
The Saturday Cafes are pop-up restaurants. Loyola student volunteers will pick a roll of hostess, server, busser, drink server, dishwasher, or cook. There is an orientation and training, the restaurant opens and guests come in and eat while being served by the volunteers, and then everything is cleaned up.
Students will learn that homelessness and food insecurity do not define a person or their worth. It is the goal of the Crescent City Cafe to reduce food insecurity by creating a gathering place where all the different faces of food insecurity will feel respected and enjoy nourishing meal while fostering a sense of community.
Adults
Senior citizens
People experiencing food insecurity
People who are homeless or in transitional housing situations
People involved in social justice advocacy or community organizing
Other staff members at our agency
Other (please specify)
Student volunteers must be at least 18 years old.
Service hours are the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 7 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Adelle Bergman
Executive Director
adelle@crescentcitycafe.com
504-376-4208
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