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PARTNERS

Partners of the Community Kitchen program include community agencies that refer potential students to the program, food service employers who provide internships and hire graduates, the food industry that  donates fresh and prepared foods for meal production, financial donors who support the program’s operating costs or contributed to the construction of the new kitchen inside the Food Bank, and news media outlets that have presented feature stories about the program.

REFERRALS of students to the Community Kitchen program

  • Catholic Charities
  • Easter Seals
  • Hope Center
  • Salvation Army
  • Presbyterian Night Shelter
  • Texas Department of Assistive and
    Rehabilitative Services
  • Union Gospel Mission
  • Women’s Center of Tarrant County
  • Workforce Solutions of Tarrant County

INTERNSHIPS/JOBS for students

  • Aramark at Lockheed Martin (jobs)
  • Aventino’s (internship & job)
  • Billy Bob’s Texas (internship & jobs)
  • Bourbon Street Grill (job)
  • Braums (jobs)
  • Broadway Plaza (internship & jobs)
  • Button’s (internship & jobs)
  • Cafe Donique (job)
  • Cafe Nutt (internship & jobs)
  • Central Market (jobs)
  • City Kitchen Catering (internship)
  • Colonial Country Club (internship & jobs)
  • Como Community Center (jobs)
  • Cowboys Stadium/Legends Hospitality (internship & jobs)
  • Dairy Queen (jobs)
  • Daybreak Cafe (internship)
  • Drew’s Place (internship & job)
  • East Fort Worth Montessori Academy (jobs)
  • Fireside Lodge Nursing Home
    (internship & jobs)
  • Food Team (jobs)
  • Fort Worth Club (jobs)
  • Fresh from the Oven (internship & jobs)
  • Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention
    Center (internship & jobs)
  • Golden Corral (internship & jobs)
  • Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
    (internship & jobs)
  • Hatch's Corner (internship)
  • Helping Restore Abilities (internship & job)
  • John Carter’s Place (jobs)
  • John Peter Smith Hospital (internship)
  • Julie’s Fresh Kitchen (internship)
  • La Playa Maya (internship)
  • MHMR of Tarrant County (referrals)
  • Milano’s Restaurant (internship)
  • Ol’ South Pancake House (jobs)
  • Omni Mandalay Hotel (internship & jobs)
  • Presbyterian Night Shelter (internship,
    jobs, referrals)
  • Radisson Hotel (jobs)
  • S & L Bakery (internship)
  • SafeHaven of Tarrant County (internship & jobs)
  • Samaritan House (internship)
  • Sardine's (job)
  • Sodexo at Texas Christian University (jobs)
  • Taco Bell (jobs)
  • Tarrant Area Food Bank Community
    Kitchen (jobs)
  • Tastebuds (jobs)
  • Texas Wesleyan University (jobs)
  • The Courtyards at River Park (internship & job)
  • The Vault (internship)
  • Trail Boss Burgers (job)
  • Ultimate Cuisine Catering (internship, jobs
    & graduation speaker)
  • Union Gospel Mission (internship, jobs,
    referrals)
  • Wellington Oaks Nursing Home (jobs)
  • Z’s Café (internship & jobs)
  • Zorro's Buffet (internship & jobs)

FOOD DONATIONS

  • Albertson’s
  • Central Market
  • Cheesecake Factory
  • Fresh Lane Foods
  • H.E. Butt Grocery Company
  • Kroger
  • Mrs. Baird’s Thrift Store
  • Sam’s Club
  • Wal-Mart

GUEST CHEF INSTRUCTORS

  • Joanne Bondy, Executive Chef     Gaylord Texan (Old Hickory Signature Steakhouse)
  • Jon Bonnell, Executive Chef & Owner Bonnell's
  • Charlie Guafardo, Executive Chef
    TCU Sodexho
  • Mark Heitri, Executive Chef                 Saint Emelion
  • Walter Kaufmann, Membership Chair Texas Chefs Association
  • Michael Morabito, Executive Chef
    Colonial Country Club
  • James Morris, Executive Chef Worthington Hotel
  • James Slaughter, Certified Executive Chef - River Crest Country Club
  • Grady Spears, Local Celebrity Chef & Owner - Grady's

GUEST SPEAKERS

  • Educational Opportunity Center
  • Jobing.com
  • Texas Agri-life
  • Texas Hospitality Group
  • Texas Re-entry
  • The Women's Center

CONSTRUCTION FUNDS

  • Amon G. Carter Foundation
  • Bank of America Foundation
  • Rahr & Sons Brewing
  • Bob & Judy Bryant Foundation
  • Capital One
  • H.E. Butt Grocery Company
  • HOPE Church
  • Kroger
  • Ryan Foundation
  • Sodexo
  • Tom Thumb
  • Wachovia Foundation
  • Web Maddox Trust (JP Morgan Chase)

OPERATING FUNDS

  • BNSF Foundation
  • Beaumont Foundation of America
  • Cargill/Horizon Milling
  • City of Fort Worth (Community Development Block Grant)
  • Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation
  • Junior League of Fort Worth
  • MillerCoors
  • Sid W. Richardson Foundation
  • Sodexo (and student stipends)
  • Texas Chef’s Association – Fort Worth
    Chapter (fundraising)
  • Walmart

NEWS MEDIA FEATURES

  • Edible Dallas/Fort Worth (quarterly magazine)
  • Downtown Fort Worth (monthly)
  • Fort Worth Business Press
  • Restaurantville (monthly magazine)
  • Star-Telegram
  • CBS 11
  • NBC 5
   

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