Mother's & House of Bridges

Hello lovelies,

I'm a chef in Milwaukee. I've worked virtually every job a restaurant has to offer, including cooking at 4 Beard nominated restaurants.

In the coming years, I'll be trying to start dual restaurants celebrating Queer diversity and Queer excellence in the culinary field, while addressing inequities in the service industry, and the need for LGBTQ+ spaces beyond Gay Bars.

The first is a 3rd space for the LGBTQ+ folks in Milwaukee centered on organizing, education, community building, and career development in the culinary field, with employment priority given to other Milwaukee based LGBTQ+ folks and those fleeing from other, less Queer-friendly states and cities.

It will be called Mother's, where, as a community that knows no borders, we'll serve "Intersectional" comfort food from across the globe; as a taste of the homes we've been ostracized from, as an homage to those families that have continued supporting us as we discover ourselves, and as family we've found as a demographic that knows no borders.

The other is House of Bridges, which will offer tasting menus, and will, similarly, be globally inspired.

Both of these projects seek to make restaurants a more fair and less exploitative industry by implementing cooperative ownership, royalties on dishes created by staff, annual cookbooks and cooking tutorials whose profits go directly back to the restaurants to supplement wages and benefits, employer paid insurances, reasonable work weeks, support of local farmers over corporate food providers, profit sharing, mutual aid across all demographics, and weekly pay-what-you-can meals for people struggling to keep food on their tables.

All donations will be used to make these projects tangible by way of licensing, lease of space, further fundraising by way of popups, and eventually, the formation of the restaurants themselves.

It's my hope that crowdfunding will help us avoid investors whose cost would limit our ability to perform the services and practices we want to implement.

Thank you lovelies

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