Dallas Observer: THE 100 BEST DALLAS RESTAURANTS OF 2020 /// CAFE MOMENTUM
When we first visited Cafe Momentum, we were concerned the restaurant gets graded on a curve. A nonprofit, the business employs juvenile offenders and pays them fair, living wages to help teach them life skills, leadership and, of course, how to work in a restaurant. How could a food writer be objective about the quality […]
Serving Up Opportunity
“The idea here is to create an ecosystem of support for the kids on all the issues and barriers that have prevented them from achieving their full potential in life,” founder and chef Chad Houser says. The program started in 2009 when Houser taught some kids in detention to make ice cream for a competition. […]
#SomethingGood: North Texas Food Truck Employs At-Risk Kids
She’s a food truck owner doing something good in the community. “We are a small business with a social mission,” said Ashlee Kleinert, owner of Ruthie’s Food Trucks. “I’ve had a grilled cheese food truck business for nine years. The business has grown each year and it became more of a grind each year rather […]
7 Spots To “Casually” Bump Into The Dallas Cowboy Players In Dallas
The Dallas Cowboys are America’s team, and when they are not on the field, they always seem to be training. Even though they are super dedicated to bringing home W’s, they find a little spare time to hit the city. Here are a few places the Dallas Cowboys Players have been spotted. Read More
Merry Watson: Starting a School for Café Momentum
STORY BY MARY MARTIN. PHOTOS BY KATIE KELTON. Link to original story here. For 30 years Merry Watson served as a guidance counselor in Chicago’s suburbs and inner-city school districts. Her role blurred the lines between parent, teacher, and college admissions representative—and she loved it. Raised in a family with nine brothers and sisters, her […]
A note from Ms. Merry about the Cafe Momentum Homeschool
Cafe Momentum is an amazing organization that helps post-release teenagers learn culinary skills and so much more! We’ve been in existence for four and a half years and this year a new educational component was added. As the Education Coordinator, I am charged with ensuring all interns are enrolled in school or a GED program. […]
Meet Two Nonprofits Helping Today’s Juvenile Offenders Become the Leaders of Tomorrow
More than 40 million people in the U.S.—including one in five Texas children—live below the poverty line. Eighteen million of those people are living in persistent poverty, meaning the position someone is born into is unlikely to change throughout their life. “The War on Poverty hasn’t worked,” says Evan Feinberg, executive director of Stand Together Foundation. “We […]
Best way to spend a Sunday in Dallas? At a feel-good supper concert with Texas Rangers broadcaster Eric Nadel
At first, it sounds like a joke. And maybe not a funny one: A Hall of Fame broadcaster, some post-release juvenile offenders, an award-winning chef and a songwriter walk into a restaurant … But it’s not a joke; it’s the basis for Eric Nadel’s Sunday Supper Concert Series at Cafe Momentum, a monthly event that merges […]
