A New Type of Business for Current Times Now Open at 6470 East Jefferson, Detroit MI – The Sunday Dinner Company
A Southern Comfort food restaurant with an up-scale, served, all-you-care-to-eat buffet. lunch and dinner is served Wednesday through Sunday. The restaurant can seat 80 people comfortably. Carryout and catering is available as well. The Sunday Dinner Company Restaurant is located at 6470 E. Jefferson Ave. Detroit, Mi 48207, between Mt. Elliott and Belle Isle Bridge - on the river side of Jefferson.
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May 13, 2010 (FPRC) -- Detroit, MI -- A new business is open in Detroit, The Sunday Dinner Company, ™ or 'SDC' is a business made for today’s times and needs. Its purpose is the revitalization of Detroit anyway they can. Positive and up-beat, SDC is a 25 percent food service based company and a 75 percent socially conscious community and people based company. Modeled after two famed businesses; one in Ann Arbor, Michigan – Zingerman’s, the other in New Orleans, Louisiana – Café Reconcile. Co-owner’s Chef Eric Giles and David Theriault have just opened a restaurant as their latest component of the company.
The Sunday Dinner Company provides employment opportunities for disenfranchised citizens such as at-risk-youth or returning citizens and provides services to the general public via a beautiful restaurant. A skills re-training culinary arts development program is also in the works. The staff at the Sunday Dinner Company prepares food for homeless, seniors and shut-ins in collaboration with Forgotten Harvest, a local food rescue company.
Business partners Chef Giles and David Theriault turned a former late 1800’s US Post Office into an 80 seat dine-in/carry-out restaurant. The building was in need of some TLC and a lot of vision. Through collaboration with Good Will Industries’ Flip-the-Script program, the owners taught construction skills to returning citizens to build out the restaurant. Several of whom are now employed at the restaurant. 'I have learned so much in such a short period of time, real skills I can take forward' says Ronnie, one of flip-the-script program participants. A summer, youth development program will help at-risk-youth, who will learn food services skills and the basics of business operations such as profit and loss statements.
Pastor Michael Cunningham of Detroit’s Historic East Lake Church provides mentoring, inspirational and motivational guidance to the employee’s and owners as they continue to grow. To paraphrase Pastor Cunningham 'this is what Detroit needs in today’s trying times, a business who’s socially conscious and in-touch with real community needs for our citizens and who’s taking action to proactively move in a positive direction – a great story to tell about Detroit and one not often heard'. In addition, local government has been extremely supportive of the efforts expressing the appreciation of what the Sunday Dinner Company’s vision and mission is attempting to accomplish.
'We are largely a socially conscious, community based, company with the restaurant at the heart of our operations' said David Theriault, CEO of the Sunday Dinner Company. We provide opportunities to populations of Detroit’s often ignored, forgotten or excluded' says Chef Giles. Networking companies together to provide total optimization of community through the use of business, local government, church, and non-profit organizations is their goal. They have collaborated with Forgotten Harvest on events such as their annual Thanks Giving Dinner for the homeless and plans are in the works for on-going participation to provide wholesome meals to those in need. Forgotten harvest provides the food, the Sunday Dinner Company provides the time and talent to prepare and cook the food, using the employees they have trained with food services skills, and local church’s provide the list of names and the distribution to those in need.
Send an email to David Theriault of The Sunday Dinner Company
248-470-4748
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Sunday Dinner Company, Forgotten Harvest, Good Will Industries
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