Maud's Café

We're here at Mods Cafe, a very auspicious day chatting with teleflex and home of you are and you're involved in here Jeff. Sure. My name is Jeff Doran. I'm our chief development officer for Volunteers of America and one of my departments is Mods Cafe. I'm the founder of Mods Cafe. Now Mods was closed for a little bit because of COVID, about for a year, at least for dying in, but you were still doing takeout and whatnot. But what's happening today? This is cool. Today is a really special day for all of us. I don't know if you can see it, but I got a big smile under my face. We can see it. Yeah, yeah. And on behalf of our founder, Mod Booth, we've decided to open Mods again for limited inside dining. There she is. Yeah, we're super excited about it. And it's going to be a great day. People are starting to, the place is starting to hop again. So we'really excited about it. Excellent. People coming in already. So tell us briefly about how the whole volunteer thing ties in with Mods Cafe. Sure. Okay. So Mods Cafe is a fully functioning cafe. We've got all kinds of treats for people. And what'special about it is it's also an internship program for select members of our homeless youth. So our homeless youth at Stanford Youth Resource Center, which is right next door to us, they're selected to learn different skills, everything from how to count money, how to create drinks and food, how to work a register. And it's a two phase program. And so it's very exciting. We're a fully functioning business and we help youth get a leg up, get a start, get confidence, get skills and ready to go. So when you come in here and get some food, you're helping out in a lot of different ways and the food looks great. We'll talk about that in a minute. But get on board. Mods Cafe is open for dining today. To see more businesses that are operating through the pandemic, go to fox13now. com. Click on the We're Open Utah tab. We have an interactive map that helps you find restaurants and shops in your area that are still open. And if you own a local business, we want to hear from you. Just go to fox13now. com and click on the We're Open tab to share your story with us.