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Local shelters, low-income daycare providers, and senior centers (many at least partially funded by the city of Seattle) have helped FareStart achieve economies of scale, as well as a predictable revenue stream in a typically unpredictable industry, by contracting with FareStart to provide institutional-scale meals for their clients.
The main FareStart Restaurant and the FareStart administrative offices are housed in Downtown Seattle just east of the Pike Place Market. The restaurant serves lunch Monday through Friday, and every Thursday night serves a special dinner, with the food preparation supervised by a "guest chef"--a noted Seattle chef from another restaurant that volunteers his or her services to support the cause. Chefs have come from as far as the Rosario Resort on Orcas Island, but most are from some of the best known restaurants in Seattle and King County, including Ray's Boathouse, Sky City at the Space Needle, Salty's on Alki, Elliott's Oyster House, and the Metropolitan Grill.
The students that staff the restaurant are provided a comprehensive, 16-week training program that includes everything from safe and proper food storage and catering to kitchen vocabulary and kitchen math. Many other skills are also covered, including conflict management, life management, employment goal-setting, résumé writing, and job-interview skills.
The original FareStart Café was at the Seattle campus of Antioch UniversityAntioch University is a national university that is an outgrowth of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. External links ., but in June 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co moved to a building in the Rainier Valley neighborhood that also houses non-profits like Treehouse , The Mockingbird Society , Washington Women's Foundation , and Northwest Children's Fund . The newest FareStart Café opened in May 2004 in the new Seattle Central LibraryThe Seattle Central Library is an 11-story glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington. Rem Koolhaas was the principal architect. The 362,987 square foot (34,000 m˛) public library can hold about 1. 45 million books and other materials, featu. It is the only food service in the library. The cafés serve as on-the-job training sites for FareStart students enrolled in the Youth Barista Training Program, a joint effort with YouthCare since September 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U. It is an eight-week program for those aged 14 to 21.
In addition to the food preparation training, FareStart also provides job placement assistance, help finding housing if the student is not already staying at a homeless shelterHomeless shelters are places for people to stay temporarily when they otherwise would have to sleep on the street, similar to emergency shelters. The main difference is that a homeless shelter is usually open to anyone, regardless of why they don't have a, and continues working with the students after they start their new job to help them keep it.
FareStart also provides catering services, using the food they prepare.