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McMurphy’s Grill has been serving up permanent, positive change from 1990-2010.
St. Patrick Center is excited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of McMurphy’s Grill, one of the agency’s longest-running employment programs and full-service restaurant located in downtown St. Louis.
In 1990, McMurphy’s Grill opened its doors as the first-in-the-nation restaurant for training homeless/mentally ill clients. The Boeing Foundation and Boeing Employees Community Fund provided start-up funding while Paul and Midge McKee donated the restaurant location. In addition, J. Kim Tucci and John Ferrara of The Pasta House Company donated kitchen pans and silverware, as well as training for the restaurant’s first employees. Currently, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. and the Boeing Foundation help underwrite costs of McMurphy’s Grill.
“We are incredibly blessed to have received ongoing support for this innovative program for 20 years,” says St. Patrick Center CEO Dan Buck. “Our McMurphy’s Grill clients are dedicated and motivated to build permanent, positive change in their lives.”
Not only does McMurphy’s Grill teach St. Patrick Center clients food service skills, it also helps them develop good work habits. Clients who are interested in working in food service are referred to McMurphy’s for three months of restaurant training in which they learn how to prepare food in a restaurant kitchen and how to serve or bus tables. After they have completed their training, St. Patrick Center helps them find permanent employment in a restaurant.
Thanks to McMurphy’s Grill, 30 to 40 people discover successful careers in the restaurant industry each year. “For people who have a passion and desire to do better with their lives, there’s no better program out there,” says McMurphy’s Grill client Paula Reynolds. “It betters the community in ways that are innumerable.”
McMurphy’s Grill is located at 614 North 11th Street, at Lucas Street, in downtown St. Louis. The restaurant is open for lunch Tuesday-Friday from 11am until 3pm.
For more information about McMurphy’s Grill, including how to book your reservation, private party or box lunch order, visit the McMurphy’s page or contact general manager Nunzio Lama at 314.231.3006.
As seen in the May 2010 issue of St. Patrick Center Chronicles
read the May 2010 issue of Chronicles
go to the McMurphy’s Grill page
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