A business in Rapid City is allowing people to pay-what-they-can for a warm meal in a nice setting. And until it closes its door, the restaurant plans to continue serving the community in this way.
Rhonda Pearcy was a teacher before she founded Fork Real Community Cafe.
“I love teaching and I still think if you are a true teacher you will always be a teacher and so just from that I was lead to step aside and saw a lot of kids were in need of food,” Rhonda Pearcy, founder of Fork Real Cafe, said.
With that thought in mind, she decided to change directions on her career path.
“God asked me to take my two passions which is food and people and put it together and so this is the creation of that so bringing people together. Food is just that kind of centerpiece that everyone has to eat,” Rhonda Pearcy said.
When people dine at Fork Real Cafe, they can pay for their meal, pay-it-forward, or pay-what-you-can and volunteer to cover the meal.
“We didn’t want to repeat or reinvent the wheel of what any other nonprofit was doing in town, there’s no need to do that,” David Pearcy, Co-Founder, said.
Fork Real Cafe has been around for four and a half years now. Run by Rhonda, her husband David, and the countless amount of volunteers.