Community Cuisine is a social enterprise with the mission of building community by providing healthy food to people from all walks of life. Our two main ways to do so - one more commercially, the other more socially oriented - are intrinsically connected and rooted in one activity: to joyfully and gratefully prepare the healthiest, most delicious, local, organic food for all members of our society
. Our meal service provides this healthy food for customers who order in advance. Our Community Dinner feeds everyone who walks in the door, contributing in their chosen way, typically through money or labor exchange. Additionally, we support various initiatives, non-profits and social agencies whose values are aligned with ours: inclusiveness, fairness, environmental stewardship, health, community, and social justice. We also offer cooking classes and engage in events that further our goals to help make our city more environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling. Community Cuisine’s goal is to operate a Pay-As-You-Can Café in Phoenix, that has its own location and is open at least five days a week. This Café will be economically sustainable through its meal service while offering pay-as-you-can meals to all community members on a daily basis. It will be set up as a worker- owned co-op and adhere to all the standards of a social enterprise.
