Kind Eats Discovery
Explore approved restaurants, bakeries, cafés, delis, food trucks, and other businesses that have made a positive impact in their communities.
133 Kind Eats businesses
129 documented kindness acts across these results.
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Cafe
Forest, VA
14805 Forest Rd Ste 101
Locally owned coffee company. Verified act of kindness: offered free handcrafted drinks each morning from Feb. 9 through Feb. 13, 2026 as a thank-you to the community. Source: WSLS, Feb. 3, 2026.
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Restaurant
Berea, KY
112 S Main St
Independent restaurant. Verified act of kindness: owner Donna Mabes provides free meals year-round regardless of ability to pay and also distributes hygiene products, winter coats and snacks to people in need. Source: WKYT, published Jan. 15, 2026.
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Cafe
Warren, PA
340 Pennsylvania Ave W
Independent coffee house. Verified act of kindness: its 2026 Pay It Forward campaign resulted in 236 drinks for teachers, 287 drinks for first responders and 212 meals donated to the Divergent Food Ministry. Source: Warren Times Observer, May 12, 2026.
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Bakery
Philadelphia, PA
806 S 6th St
Independent bakery. Verified act of kindness: joined the City of Philadelphia's Pay It Forward Philly program, allowing customers to purchase meals that people experiencing food insecurity can later redeem for free. Source: City of Philadelphia, July 1, 2026.
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Cafe
Reading, PA
105 W Greenwich St
Nonprofit pay-what-you-can cafe. Verified act of kindness: guests can pay what they can, volunteer in exchange for a meal, or pay it forward by purchasing meal tokens for people in need. Source: City of Reading, May 4, 2025.
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Cafe
Brooks, GA
949 Highway 85 Connector
Independent coffeehouse and market. Verified acts of kindness: adopted 14 families for Thanksgiving, collected Christmas gifts for local families, supported additional households through Fayette Flyers, and launched a pay-it-forward coffee board for veterans, grieving neighbors, single parents and others who could use a kindness. Source: The Citizen, July 8, 2026.
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Pizza
Brownsburg, IN
922 E Main St
The Kindness Story
Free pizza buffet for first responders during a dangerous winter storm.
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BBQ
Pearland, TX
3613 Broadway Street
The Kindness Story
Roughly 3,500 free meals after Hurricane Beryl.
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Restaurant
Pasadena, CA
45 S De Lacey Avenue
The Kindness Story
Provided shelter, water, boxed lunches and meals after wildfires.
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Restaurant
Asheville, NC
7 SW Pack Square
The Kindness Story
Participated in the Helene food-relief response.
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Restaurant
Charlotte, NC
9601 N Tryon St Suite F
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for federal workers.
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Ramen Restaurant
Los Angeles, CA
7111 Melrose Ave
The Kindness Story
Provided free hot meals for first responders and displaced residents.
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Café
Los Angeles, CA
7371 Melrose Ave
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Provided free meals for firefighters and first responders.
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Restaurant
Los Angeles, CA
10433 National Blvd #2
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Provided free meals for first responders and fire crews.
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Café
Los Angeles, CA
5526 N Figueroa St
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for people affected by wildfires.
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Restaurant
Asheville, NC
22 Battery Park Ave
The Kindness Story
Participated in the Helene food-relief response.
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Vietnamese Restaurant
Oakland, CA
360 40th St
The Kindness Story
Donated more than 20,000 meals through World Central Kitchen plus recurring free-pho programs.
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Restaurant
Los Angeles, CA
The Kindness Story
Provided free pasta and refuge for evacuees and first responders.
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Bakery
Oakland, CA
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Donates meals to a weekly program serving unhoused residents.
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Seafood Restaurant
Carolina Beach, NC
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Participated in free-meal storm relief.
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Food Truck
Carolina Beach, NC
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At least 200 free meals after storm damage.
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BBQ
Anna Maria Island, FL
The Kindness Story
Served roughly 3,500–4,000 meals during hurricane recovery.
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Food Truck
Southwest Virginia, VA
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for flood and storm victims.
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Food Truck
Joslin, IL
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Bought pizzas with his own money and gave them free to laid-off Tyson workers.
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BBQ
Ingram, TX
The Kindness Story
Provided hundreds of free meals for Hill Country flood victims.
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Café
Bellbrook/Kettering, OH
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for people affected by the government shutdown.
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Restaurant
Spring, TX
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for federal workers during the shutdown.
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Restaurant
Oakland, CA
3340 International Blvd
The Kindness Story
Offers a pay-what-you-can dish where nobody is turned away.
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Restaurant
Asheville, NC
13 Biltmore Ave
The Kindness Story
Supplied free meals to residents through World Central Kitchen.
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Restaurant/Bar
Akron, OH
1481 S Main St
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Long-running program providing free summer lunches to children.
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Café
Phoenix, AZ
3801 S Central Avenue
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Provided pay-what-you-can community meals for people affected by the SNAP freeze.
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Bar/Restaurant
Corpus Christi, TX
7042 S Staples St #108
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for families in need during summer.
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Restaurant
Oakland, CA
1430 23rd Avenue
The Kindness Story
Provided SNAP-supported children’s meals.
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Café/Bakery
Burbank, CA
321 E Alameda Ave Ste H
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Provided free breakfasts for firefighters and first responders.
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BBQ
Apopka, FL
464 S Hunt Club Blvd
The Kindness Story
Provided free summer meals for K–12 students.
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Restaurant
Los Angeles, CA
557 N Hoover St
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Provided free meals for wildfire evacuees and first responders.
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Restaurant
Carolina Beach, NC
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Participated in free-meal storm relief.
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Community Diner
Mingo Junction/Follansbee, OH/WV
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Provided free meals for people of all ages.
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Community Restaurant
Castle Rock, CO
207 W Wolfensberger Rd Suite 100
The Kindness Story
Operated a no-cost community restaurant serving free meals.
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Restaurant
Asheville, NC
68 N Lexington Ave
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals during Helene recovery, sometimes serving up to 1,000 people per day.
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Restaurant
Elkins, WV
122 Davis Ave
The Kindness Story
Provided free children’s meals during SNAP disruption.
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Restaurant
Chatsworth, CA
9846 Mason Ave
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for people affected by Los Angeles wildfires.
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Restaurant
Atlanta, GA
1080 Crescent Ave NE #6
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals and care packages for families affected by SNAP disruption.
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Pizzeria
Los Angeles, CA
6219 Franklin Ave
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for evacuees, firefighters and first responders.
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BBQ
Southern Pines, NC
130 SW Broad St
The Kindness Story
Provided free take-home meals for families in need.
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Restaurant
Boone, NC
130 Hardin Street
The Kindness Story
Free meals for people affected by Hurricane Helene.
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Restaurant
Colorado Springs, CO
324 1/2 N Tejon St
The Kindness Story
Provided free weekly meals for furloughed or unpaid government workers.
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Restaurant
Asheville, NC
32 Banks Avenue
The Kindness Story
Participated in the Helene food-relief response.
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Restaurant
Cornelius, NC
19700 One Norman Blvd Suite C
The Kindness Story
Provided free replacement meals for federal workers.
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Restaurant
Hastings, MN
101 2nd Street E.
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for SNAP families.
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Italian Restaurant
San Jose, CA
3137 Stevens Creek Blvd
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals for children on SNAP.
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Restaurant
Houston, TX
8128 North Sam Houston Pkwy W, Ste B
The Kindness Story
Cooked roughly 200 free meals from food that would otherwise spoil after Beryl.
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Restaurant
Asheville, NC
130 College St
The Kindness Story
Participated in the Helene food-relief response.
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Restaurant
Angola, NY
9544 Lake Shore Rd
The Kindness Story
Provided five free meals per day for families affected by the shutdown.
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Restaurant
Athens, OH
74 North Court Street
The Kindness Story
Provided free meals to SNAP recipients.
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Café/Restaurant
Waco, TX
1001 Franklin Avenue
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Opened its doors to people losing SNAP benefits.
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Restaurant
Waco/Woodway, TX
720 Franklin Ave
The Kindness Story
Provided free summer lunches for children.
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Food Truck / BBQ
Correctionville, IA
508 11th St
The Kindness Story
Patti's Pit Stop owners hosted free community meals at the Sioux City Warming Shelter, continuing a community-meal effort that began during the pandemic.
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Bakery
San Luis Obispo, CA
2060 Parker Street
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During the 2025 SNAP disruption, Bread Bike Bakery offered a free loaf of bread each week in November to SNAP recipients.
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Restaurant
Columbia, TN
2525 Keith Drive
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Los Hermanos Mexican Grill provided free daily kids meals to families affected by the SNAP benefit suspension.
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Restaurant
Portland, ME
90 Exchange Street
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Crispy Gai prepared and distributed nearly 300 free Thanksgiving meals to Mainers in need in Greater Portland, continuing a Thanksgiving and Christmas meal tradition.
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Restaurant
Umatilla, FL
37534 FL-19
The Kindness Story
The Mason Jar provided free bagged lunches to children during the 2025 SNAP disruption, with no purchase required.
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Restaurant
Durham, NC
202 N. Corcoran St., Suite 100
The Kindness Story
Cheeni offered a free hot meal to anyone in need during the 2025 SNAP disruption, with no questions asked.
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Bakery
Durham, NC
2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd
The Kindness Story
During the 2025 SNAP disruption, Guglhupf Bakery offered free loaves of bread to customers who showed an EBT card.
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Southern Restaurant
Winston-Salem, NC
2859 Reynolda Rd
The Kindness Story
Collected donated toys for children affected by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina as the 2024 holiday season approached.
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Caterer
Greensboro, NC
908 Cridland Rd
The Kindness Story
Gave away 200 free to-go meals -- chicken with a side of mashed potatoes, corn, or pinto beans -- to anyone showing a federal work ID or EBT card during the government shutdown, after owner Alexis Hefney saw her own customers struggling.
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Seafood Restaurant
Thomasville, NC
8614 E US Hwy 64
The Kindness Story
Hosted a take-out fundraiser -- chicken tender and flounder plates for $12, shrimp plates for $15 -- with all proceeds donated to the family of local volunteer firefighter Brian Reeder after he was critically injured in a highway crash on his way home.
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Soul Food Restaurant
Memphis, TN
969 E McLemore Ave
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Owner Derrick Craig opened his restaurant in the long-neglected Soulsville neighborhood specifically to revitalize it — restoring a dilapidated commercial building himself, buying and fixing up the empty lot next door for parking, and purchasing and renovating other run-down properties in the area to create affordable housing.
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Indian Restaurant
Salt Lake City, UT
2731 E Parleys Way
The Kindness Story
Offered free meals to anyone affected by the government shutdown and SNAP suspension across all three Utah locations, no questions asked, "as long as there is need."
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Bakery
Hayden, ID
190 W Hayden Ave
The Kindness Story
Founded in 2017 specifically to provide meaningful employment and hands-on life-skills training for adults with special needs and disabilities in North Idaho; named Idaho's Best Bakery in 2023.
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Restaurant
Denver, CO
2023 E Colfax Ave
The Kindness Story
Denver's first and longest-running pay-what-you-can restaurant — diners contribute money, time, or produce in exchange for a meal, with no one turned away regardless of ability to pay; also runs a free "Cook to Work" culinary job-training program for guests seeking employment.
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Bakery
Oakland, CA
745 5th St
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Worker-owned cooperative bakery that launched a buy-one-give-one campaign during the government shutdown — for every box of cupcakes or cakes a customer sponsored, the bakery donated a matching box to a family struggling financially.
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Deli / Bagel Shop
Neptune, NJ
3701 NJ-33
The Kindness Story
Employee Chris Hansen patiently helped a stroke-recovery customer communicate her order, then quietly comped her meal; a customer's Instagram video of the moment reached his 400,000+ followers and led to a GoFundMe raising over $16,500 for Hansen.
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Restaurant
Antigo, WI
527 Field St
The Kindness Story
Launched a "paying it forward" program letting customers prepay for a meal that anyone in need can walk in and claim, no questions asked, raising over $3,000 in its first month.
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Seafood Restaurant
Augusta, ME
455 Riverside Dr
The Kindness Story
Owner Laura Benedict built the Red Barn Cares Foundation into one of central Maine's largest sources of charitable giving, hosting decades of fundraisers and charity events that have raised over $1 million for community members in need — profiled twice by NBC Nightly News.
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Restaurant
Berkeley, CA
2454 Sacramento St
The Kindness Story
Runs the nationally recognized "Everybody Eats" program, feeding anyone who needs a meal and can't afford one, no questions asked, funded by customers who donate $5 to sponsor a meal for someone in need. Community support for the program was so strong that when the cafe closed in January 2024, it reopened just over a year later specifically to keep the program alive.
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Filipino Food Truck
Winston-Salem, NC
1311 S Hawthorne Rd
The Kindness Story
Owner Joe Olson organized a block party at Cobblestone Farmers Market to support local food trucks and small businesses hurt by a stretch of winter-storm closures, bringing in other food vendors, a run club, live music, and a vintage market.
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Bakery / Coffee Shop
Winston-Salem, NC
310 W 4th St
The Kindness Story
Donates daily to the food pantry at Sunnyside Ministry and makes weekly donations to Samaritan Ministries; also highlights a different local nonprofit each month and donates a portion of coffee sales to them.
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Coffee Shop
Livonia, MI
19215 Merriman Rd
The Kindness Story
Founded in 2019 by parents of two teens with Down syndrome; social enterprise of nonprofit Mi Work Matters providing paid, inclusive employment and job training for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Coffee Shop
Livonia, MI
32001 Five Mile Rd
The Kindness Story
Second Mi Work Matters location, opened inside the Livonia Senior Wellness Center specifically to connect adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with local seniors through shared space and daily interaction, while expanding the nonprofit's paid job program.
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Coffee Shop
Trenton, MI
2230 West Rd
The Kindness Story
Coffee shop and life-skills program operated by nonprofit Arkay Inc., providing paid employment and community connection for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, letting them work the register, make sandwiches, and greet customers.
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Vegan Restaurant
Charlotte, NC
6414 Rea Rd, Ste C2
The Kindness Story
Hosts regular benefit dinners donating a portion of proceeds to Charlotte non-profits, including Hearts for the Invisible Charlotte Coalition, which supports people experiencing homelessness.
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Restaurant & Bar
Boulder, CO
1165 13th St
The Kindness Story
Executive chef regularly volunteers through the "Chefs at the Shelter" program, cooking a full dinner for 180 residents at All Roads homeless shelter using only whatever ingredients were donated that day.
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Restaurant
Merrill, WI
1302 N Center Ave
The Kindness Story
Serves a free 2-piece chicken dinner to the first 300 people on Christmas Day, funded by local business partners including Carry the Cross, JRS Builders of WI, and Coldwell Banker/Solomon Group.
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Pizzeria
Arcata, CA
600 F St
The Kindness Story
Hosts regular blood drives in its parking lot in partnership with the regional blood bank, rewarding donors with a free lunch special of two slices and a soda.
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Coffee Shop
Chicago, IL
1621 W 47th St
The Kindness Story
Hosts "Senior Mondays," offering free coffee, pastries, and community activities like yoga, bingo, and loteria for isolated older adults in the neighborhood, started after the owner noticed his own parents struggling to find social spaces.
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Coffee Shop
Raleigh, NC
145 E Davie St
The Kindness Story
Runs a "Pay-It-Forward" chalkboard where customers prepay for a coffee or meal that anyone in need can claim, no questions asked — an early example that helped inspire a broader pay-it-forward movement in hospitality.
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Coffee Shop & Roaster
Raleigh, NC
615 Hillsborough St
The Kindness Story
Founded specifically to employ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities; now employs over 50 people who take orders, pull espresso, and roast the coffee themselves.
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Café
Red Bank, NJ
418 Route 35
The Kindness Story
Founded by parents whose daughter with Down syndrome had no employment options after school ended; now employs adults with intellectual disabilities in real, paid jobs with training designed to help them lead fulfilling working lives.
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Café & Restaurant
Brooklyn, NY
345 Smith St
The Kindness Story
Nonprofit culinary school and cafe that gives refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking paid, hands-on training and job placement support in the restaurant industry, with over 400 graduates placed in culinary careers since 2016.
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Café
Arlington Heights, IL
1802 N Arlington Heights Rd
The Kindness Story
Nonprofit cafe that employs over 40 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, giving them meaningful jobs, job training, and a sense of belonging in the community.
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Restaurant
Asheville, NC
491 Sardis Rd
The Kindness Story
Serves free meals to community members in need every single day it's open, funded through community donations via a partnership with Bridge Meals.
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Bakery
Charlotte, NC
4405 Central Ave, Ste C
The Kindness Story
Owner Manolo Betancur has personally delivered free birthday cakes to homeless neighbors in Charlotte for over 12 years, in partnership with Raise You Up Ministries, recently marking his 300th cake delivered.
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Café
Raleigh, NC
300 W Hargett St, Ste 50
The Kindness Story
A Place at the Table is a pay-what-you-can cafe where guests can pay the suggested price, pay less, volunteer for a meal, or pay a meal forward to someone else.
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Café & Restaurant
Charlotte, NC
821 W 1st St
The Kindness Story
Social enterprise of Charlotte Rescue Mission that hires and trains graduates of its addiction-recovery program in a paid life-skills program, helping them reintegrate into the workforce.
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Café / Brunch Restaurant
Mesa, AZ
6663 E McDowell Rd, Ste 101
The Kindness Story
Formally autism-certified café with staff specially trained in sensory accommodations, a casein-free menu option, and quiet spaces built into daily service — not a one-off event, but how the restaurant runs day to day.
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Coffee Shop
Lexington, KY
376 Southland Dr
The Kindness Story
Founded specifically to employ adults with disabilities and special needs, offering dignity, inclusion, and steady work alongside great coffee and community fellowship.
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Restaurant & Bakery
Lexington, KY
867 S Broadway, Unit 140
The Kindness Story
Second-chance employer that hires and mentors people in the early stages of substance-use recovery, running weekly workshops on life skills, interviewing, and personal finances alongside the job.
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Diner
Louisville, KY
3309 Camp Ground Rd
The Kindness Story
Reopened as an alcohol-free diner in partnership with a rehab center, hiring 18 people in early addiction recovery; the owner started the program after losing her son to drugs.
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Restaurant & Bar
Front Royal, VA
231 Chester St
The Kindness Story
Hosts a monthly Sensory-Friendly Night, closing off the bar area to cut noise and setting up sensory kits and quiet play stations for families with autistic children — started by the general manager after his own 3-year-old son was diagnosed with autism.
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Restaurant & Bar
Savannah, GA
4430 Habersham St
The Kindness Story
Funds a "Serving Success" college scholarship program for its own employees with $1 from every fried pickle appetizer sold, most recently awarding $5,000 across three servers pursuing higher education.
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Vegan Restaurant
Eugene, OR
769 Monroe St
The Kindness Story
Acorn Community Cafe uses a Pay It Forward model in which paying customers fund meal vouchers that anyone can redeem for a free meal.
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Mexican Restaurant
Cudahy, WI
3506 E Layton Ave
The Kindness Story
Runs a "Pay It Forward" board where customers buy tickets for a meal or single item that anyone struggling can redeem for free, no questions asked — more than two dozen families helped so far.
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Ice Cream Shop
Warren, OH
1805 1/2 Parkman Rd NW
The Kindness Story
Runs an ongoing "Cockeye Cares Pint Program" that creates a signature ice cream flavor and donates a portion of its sales to a different local nonprofit every few months, raising $700-$1,000+ per campaign for groups like the Warren Family Mission and Sleep in Heavenly Peace.
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Soul Food Restaurant
Spokane, WA
3029 E 5th Ave
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Nonprofit restaurant that trains and mentors local teenagers through a paid job-training program, and serves 100-500 free Thanksgiving meals to the community every year.
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Vegan Restaurant
Studio City, CA
4147 Lankershim Blvd
The Kindness Story
Donated hot meals to fire stations and offered free food and drinks to first responders and evacuees during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
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Restaurant & Bar
Los Angeles, CA
2838 Rowena Ave
The Kindness Story
Housed in a converted 1924 firehouse, offered free meals to first responders and anyone displaced during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
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Mexican Restaurant
Welch, WV
30 McDowell St
The Kindness Story
The day after devastating floods hit McDowell County, owner Roberto "Taco Man" Diaz turned on every stove and oven to feed anyone who needed a warm place and a meal, part of an effort that served thousands of free meals to the community in the weeks that followed.
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Brewery
Pittsburgh, PA
5113 Penn Ave
The Kindness Story
Offered a two-for-one match — donating two food items to North Hills Community Outreach for every one item a customer donated — to help neighbors after SNAP benefits were delayed by the government shutdown.
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Bar & Grill
Buckhannon, WV
23 N Spring St
The Kindness Story
Launched a "pay it forward" program after nearby flooding, letting any customer buy a meal of any size for a community member in need, with the restaurant matching each purchase of the weekly special with a donated meal.
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Restaurant
Vancouver, WA
5303 E Mill Plain Blvd
The Kindness Story
Staff are paid a living wage instead of accepting tips; diners are asked to donate toward the cost of a meal for a senior in need instead, supporting Meals on Wheels People's mission to combat food insecurity and isolation among older adults.
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Food Truck
St. Louis, MO
1600 N Broadway
The Kindness Story
Took the food truck directly into tornado-hit north St. Louis neighborhoods on Memorial Day, cooking for and delivering meals to survivors who couldn't leave their homes.
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Bakery
Rockville, MD
11510 Rockville Pike, Ste D
The Kindness Story
Employs graduates of Sunflower Bakery's training program for adults with developmental and learning disabilities, giving them valued, ongoing roles on staff.
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Bakery
St. Louis, MO
2639 Cherokee St
The Kindness Story
Provides restorative employment for people without safe and stable housing — the bakery's only paid workers are formerly-homeless bakers earning wages and rebuilding stability.
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Restaurant
Dallas, TX
1510 Pacific Ave
The Kindness Story
Nonprofit restaurant that pays and trains youth released from juvenile detention in a year-long post-release culinary internship teaching real-world restaurant and life skills.
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Restaurant
Summerville, SC
120 E 5th North St
The Kindness Story
Opens every Thanksgiving to serve free meals, buffet style, to anyone who needs a hot plate and a welcoming place to spend the holiday — a decade-long tradition that fed 200+ people last year.
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Coffee Shop
Payson, AZ
614 N Beeline Hwy
The Kindness Story
Launched a free-drink program for first responders after a house fire broke out next door and threatened the coffee shop itself.
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Café
Chicago, IL
1812 W Montrose Ave
The Kindness Story
Hosts pay-what-you-can community suppers every Monday through the winter, with proceeds donated to a different local food pantry each month.
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Pizzeria
Peoria, IL
8879 Knoxville Ave Ste 19
The Kindness Story
Donated $1,000 to the Peoria Public Schools Foundation after offering free one-topping pizzas to kids affected by SNAP benefit delays.
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Café / Coffee Roaster
Chicago, IL
161 N Clark St, Ste 140
The Kindness Story
Hires and trains homeless and at-risk military veterans; proceeds from every purchase go toward helping veterans rebuild their lives.
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Deli
Clinton, WA
11042 State Route 525, Ste 122
The Kindness Story
Owner created a no-questions-asked "Island Menu" of free sandwiches for anyone who needs one, funded entirely by customer donations.
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Coffee Shop
Lawton, OK
343 NW 2nd St
The Kindness Story
Partnered with Chick-fil-A and a local Chevrolet dealership to deliver free lunch to faculty and staff at three Lawton high schools.
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Café / Vietnamese Restaurant
Pinellas Park, FL
5572 Park Blvd N
The Kindness Story
Owner gave a free meal to a stranger; the moment went viral and raised over $200,000, which strangers used to buy her a home.
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Diner
Tuttle, OK
151 E Main St, Unit 8
The Kindness Story
Owner Jamie Clark regularly feeds Tuttle High School students on free/reduced lunch, no charge, and sponsors food-insecure families in the community.
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Bakery
Evanston, IL
1000 Davis St
The Kindness Story
Donates unsold Danishes, donuts, croissants, coffee cakes, and bread to Interfaith Action of Evanston, which distributes them across the city's soup kitchens.
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Restaurant
Colorado Springs, CO
324 1/2 N Tejon St
The Kindness Story
Offered a free weekly meal to furloughed and unpaid government workers for as long as the federal shutdown lasted.
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Bakery
Grand Island, NE
225 N Webb Rd
The Kindness Story
Donated 25% of a day's sales to a bride who lost her wedding items in an EF3 tornado.
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BBQ Restaurant
Weston, WV
139 E 2nd St
The Kindness Story
Handed out 1,000 free sandwiches to community members who lost food in local flooding, using meat and buns donated by the community.
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Food Truck
Jesup, GA
62 Sheephead Rd
The Kindness Story
Drove to Nehunta and served free tacos to families and first responders during the Brantley County wildfire evacuations.
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Food Truck
Waycross, GA
The Kindness Story
Drove to Nehunta and served free meals to families and first responders during the Brantley County wildfire evacuations.
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Seafood Restaurant
Brooklyn, NY
613 Franklin Ave
The Kindness Story
Donates food to the local food bank, gives a free meal to anyone who comes in hungry no questions asked, and provided meals for hospital workers during COVID.
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Italian Restaurant
Denver, CO
3535 S Yosemite St
The Kindness Story
Owner offered a free meal to anyone grieving a mother, wife, or child around Mother's Day; hundreds came, some sharing photos and stories of loss.
Restaurant
San Leandro, CA
160 West Juana Ave
The Kindness Story
This business consistently donates food to people on the street as seen on TikTok and Instagram.
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