Community Café hosts Bozeman High School ProStart culinary students as guest chefs. The Community Cafe is part of the HRDC’s Emergency Food and Nutrition Initiative, working to improve food security in SW Montana. The Café has been providing hot, nutritious meals to the community since 2012. As Montana’s only “Pay What You Can” Café, you pay whatever you feel the meal is worth. If you can pay more, please do. If you have a little less, pay what you can and enjoy!

This Friday, December 11th, the meal is being prepared in partnership with Bozeman High School’s ProStart Culinary Program. The ProStart Program helps develop aspiring culinarians in high schools across the nation, and hosts an annual state and national invitational competition. Last year, the program’s culinary students won the State Invitational after working at the Café, a feat we hope to help them to repeat.

This partnership supports provision of the Café’s three tenets of food, opportunity, and education by offering participants an opportunity to develop as a team while providing delicious, nutritious meals for our community. The meals being prepared by the students can be enjoyed from 5-7 pm at the Community Café, located at 302 N. 7th Avenue in Bozeman, December 11th, February 5th, March 4th and 25th, and April 15th and 29th.

The Community Cafe is part of the HRDC’s Emergency Food and Nutrition Initiative, working to improve food security in SW Montana. The Café was founded when an increase in families needing emergency food boxes was observed at the Gallatin Valley Food Bank. The Community Café is Montana’s only Pay What You Can restaurant, open 365 days a year for dinner from 5-7pm. The HRDC was established in 1975 and serves Gallatin, Park, and Meagher Counties in southwest Montana.  HRDC is a non-profit community action agency, dedicated to strengthening community and advancing the quality of people’s lives.