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[0:02] I was a consumer a lot of my life like

[0:04] I'm 50 years old and probably the first

[0:06] half of my life it was all about me and

[0:09] there was this kind of shift in my life

[0:11] that it's not all about what you can

[0:13] consume it's about how you're going to

[0:15] live in this world and how you're going

[0:16] to interact in this world and for me

[0:18] every day as we started to do it a

[0:20] little bit more it just changes you when

[0:22] you see things in this world you can't

[0:25] unsee them and you're just going to

[0:26] react differently when you put other

[0:28] people in front of yourself

[0:30] hope is really about bringing families

[0:33] together starting conversations having

[0:35] these over-the-top kind of Pancakes and

[0:38] coffees and drinks we call our our

[0:40] breakfast the Disneyland of breakfast to

[0:43] us when families come together over a

[0:45] meal it's the best thing in the world so

[0:47] we really wanted to have breakfast items

[0:50] that would make you talk and create

[0:53] conversation I think people come here

[0:55] because when you walk in a hope it just

[0:57] feels different there's not a lot of

[0:58] restaurants that ask you to share your

[1:00] hopes and prayers and dreams you see

[1:02] lots of inspirational signs that say

[1:04] believe every painting in our restaurant

[1:06] tells a story of somebody that's done

[1:09] something amazing in the world and I

[1:10] think guests and consumers now choose

[1:13] where they're going to dine and they

[1:15] choose where they're going to spend

[1:16] their money and I think they want to

[1:18] make sure that restaurants are in

[1:19] alignment with their core values and

[1:22] it's really the most important thing

[1:23] that we

[1:24] do so hope and prayer cards we just

[1:26] invite everybody they're on every table

[1:28] it just says we don't care what you

[1:30] believe we believe in you if you read

[1:32] some of them it's I want a unicorn and

[1:35] you'll see others that talk about

[1:36] tragedy maybe you don't have an outlet

[1:38] at home but people will share just

[1:41] lifechanging things with us and it gives

[1:43] us as a family opportunity to pray over

[1:46] these cards it's really how we connect

[1:49] with our community when they share with

[1:51] us we like to use those and go out and

[1:53] change the

[1:54] community it kind of speaks to everyone

[1:56] and that's I think that's the goal with

[1:59] they being so much Community orientation

[2:01] here so it's just inviting I think one

[2:04] of the biggest things that we have loved

[2:05] about it is even the whole prayer cards

[2:08] because it's a great way to just write

[2:10] out some of the feelings that you have

[2:12] knowing that there's an opportunity for

[2:13] people you'll never meet to pray for

[2:15] them and so that's been a cool part of

[2:16] the mission some people are more

[2:18] fortunate than others and I feel like

[2:20] it's as a society it's always good to

[2:23] give back to those that don't have much

[2:25] you helping others like not directly but

[2:28] like indirectly at the same time

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[2:33] since

[2:34] 2019 we've fed over 500,000 people free

[2:38] of charge every week still face to face

[2:40] picks up Meals twice a week for homeless

[2:42] youth it's how we reach out to our

[2:44] community people will share things like

[2:47] that they have needs for meals or that

[2:49] they have financial needs and being a

[2:51] business where we can help with those

[2:53] needs means everything so a percentage

[2:55] of our sales it just really depends on

[2:57] the need we've closed our restaurants

[2:59] and use them 100% as Community Kitchens

[3:02] there are days when it calls for 100% of

[3:04] our sales then there are just our

[3:06] ongoing giving so the percentage varies

[3:09] depending on what's going on in the

[3:12] world so about a week before the

[3:15] government shut down schools had started

[3:17] shutting down so we posted a thing that

[3:19] said any family in need please come to

[3:21] Hope and get a free meal I think over

[3:24] the weekend we had over 10,000 requests

[3:26] so I had to sit with my wife and our

[3:28] staff and say we're going to close our

[3:30] restaurant and turn into a Community

[3:32] Kitchen we can't possibly operate and we

[3:34] were feeding anywhere from 5 to 10,000

[3:37] people every single day and we did that

[3:39] all throughout Co I had a son that was

[3:42] in his senior year of high school heard

[3:44] all of his friends talking about no prom

[3:47] no graduation so we did a drive-thru

[3:49] prom and we had hundreds and hundreds of

[3:51] kids a lot of them had to socially

[3:54] distance so their dates that they hadn't

[3:56] seen in months pulled up in their family

[3:59] car got out with their masks on was all

[4:02] outside was heartbreaking but it was

[4:04] really great so many of these kids got

[4:06] to have a prom that would have never had

[4:07] a

[4:11] prom the world is a really really

[4:13] difficult place and we really want our

[4:15] restaurants to interact differently in

[4:17] how this world is and with addiction and

[4:20] with recovery the hospitality industry

[4:23] is notorious for drugs addiction mental

[4:26] health we have so many people that are

[4:28] in recovery and battling addiction and

[4:31] we really want to react differently in

[4:33] this world and make our restaurants a

[4:35] place where people can come work and

[4:38] have that safe great work

[4:40] environment come in check all the stress

[4:43] and all the madness of Life check it at

[4:45] the door come in here and just turn your

[4:48] brain off for an hour and come in and

[4:50] enjoy