Reliability • Structure • Workforce

Culinary Recovery.
Community Equity.

We are more than a non-profit. We are a workforce engine. By combining peer support with a functional kitchen + café training lane, we convert stability into employability—then into retention.

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Mise en Place for Life

Recovery requires preparation. Our Work-Ordered Day provides the structure (mise en place) members need to stabilize before re-entering high-demand work environments.

The Training Ticket

Through The Harbor Café and Kitchen Ops, members earn references—real supervisors, real expectations, real proof.

The Ecosystem

We are the hub. Partners provide the clinical, youth, and media continuity. We provide the reliability layer that makes referrals stick.

Open Table Kitchen

Commissary • Catering • Vocational Training

Order #2026

TABLE: COMMUNITY
  • 1x KITCHEN OPS Food Safety
    Batch Prep
  • 1x POP-UP EVENT Neighborhood
    Engagement
  • 1x CATERING CREW Packout Discipline
    Logistics

Op standards • staffing • sponsor lanes

Why Restaurants Partner With Us

Hospitality is a reliability industry. We help you hire people with documented follow-through.

  • Candidates with verified reliability through a Work-Ordered Day.
  • Kitchen reps + safety posture trained under supervision.
  • Support system reduces turnover and early dropout.

The Harbor Café

The Harbor Café is our hospitality training lane—where punctuality, customer service, cleanliness, and composure under pressure become repeatable behaviors (and then employer references).

Front-of-house discipline
Greeting, register flow, service recovery, teamwork.
Proof artifacts
Attendance, role consistency, supervisor notes, task completion.
Placement-ready outputs
References + readiness that employers actually trust.
Hospitality Outcomes
Reliability
On-time arrival, consistent role assignment, follow-through.
Customer-facing composure
Stress tolerance, respectful communication, service recovery.
Transferable skills
Shift etiquette, hygiene, teamwork, speed with accuracy.

Network

Continuity partners that keep the loop closed.

Build a Partnership

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Restaurants, funders, providers—if you want measurable follow-through, you’re in the right room.

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