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Hugs Cafe Inc. is a non-profit social enterprise in McKinney, Texas dedicated to providing meaningful training and competitively-paid employment to adults with special needs. Our mission offers a direct solution to the 82% of adults with special needs that want to work, but remain unemployed due to lack of opportunity.
Hugs Café Inc. is composed of three programs. Hugs Café is our flagship program where we directly employ 23 adults with special needs in a café setting. When we are closed on Mondays, we offer cooking classes and food handler’s certification instruction via our Hugs Prep program. We are currently partnering with local restaurants and businesses to secure job placement in the community to those that finish our Hugs Prep program and we cannot directly employ. Through these two culinary initiatives, we have placed two individuals in jobs at Harvest Seasonal Kitchen in McKinney, and four of our staff have mastered their roles in the cafe and have been promoted to management and training positions. Hugs Greenhouse is our newest program that recognizes food service may not be for every person or every ability. We have developed a second social enterprise that trains and educates adults with special needs on gardening, retail sales, and socialization within the community. All of our programs offer training and educational employment to adults with special needs so they may gain respect and independence. In 2018, we provided 11,010 hours of meaningful employment and paid out $85,040 in wages to adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities that would otherwise be unable to contribute to society.
