EXCELLENT CAFE & CATERING SERVICES

Our Thyme Cafe realizes a long-time dream of the Elizabeth Fry Society. Based on a model of social enterprise Our Thyme Cafe and Catering provides an education and employment program for women and female youth experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness, involvement in the criminal justice system and/or other issues and barriers related to living in poverty. From an outcomes perspective the project will provide immediate employment skills for women and female youth with a long term goal of creating sustainable employment for those women. Partnerships with the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services Employment Support Program and Service Canada's Employment Program will provide wage subsidy and job creation monies to support this initiative. Our program is open to all women.

The project goals and objectives include but are not limited to the following:

• To train women and female youth to work in the culinary arts and food safety sector. The participants, who currently face barriers to employment (poverty, homelessness, addiction) are provided a second chance to train in the field of culinary arts and food safety.
• To prepare women for jobs in the food service industry in a non-judgmental environment in a program developed to provide and promote life skills, job readiness and hands on training.
• To increase confidence and strengthen the ability to obtain long term employment or return to school to support educational goals in culinary arts.
• To provide certificates in WHMIS, OHC, First Aid and Food Handling Safety.
• To provide skills in hygiene, food prep, food tastes, food smells, food storage, costing, management, service, food delivery, customer relations, advertising, cooking, budgeting.

 

Our Thyme Cafe & Catering Employment Training

All catering orders and catering questions should be sent to catering@ourthymecafe.biz or by telephone at 406-7467