Meeting created at: 30th Sep, 2025 - 5:06 PM1
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Sophia Magnanini: Hello, 88.1 WKNC Raleigh.
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Sophia Magnanini: I am Sophia Magnanini, your host and you're listening to Oak City Move.
Sophia Magnanini: Today we're joined by a very special guest, Maggie Kane, founder and Executive director of A Place at the Table, a non profit cafe where everyone is invited to have a wonderful dining experience regardless of means.
Sophia Magnanini: First off, I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to join me.
Sophia Magnanini: Thank you.
Sophia Magnanini: If you wanted to start by introducing yourself and your role at A Place at the Table.
Maggie Kane: Awesome.
Maggie Kane: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
Maggie Kane: So exciting.
Maggie Kane: When I was in school, I don't think at NC State, I don't think we had a podcast.
Maggie Kane: So this is really exciting to be here with all of you.
Maggie Kane: yes, I am Maggie Kane and I'm the founder and executive director of A Place at the Table rally's first pay what you can restaurant.
Sophia Magnanini: That's awesome.
Sophia Magnanini: And for listeners who may not know, can you kind of go into the mission of A Place at the Table and how does that kind of work?
Maggie Kane: Totally, yeah.
Maggie Kane: It's such a confusing thing.
Maggie Kane: Like when people hear pay what you can, they're like, what?
Maggie Kane: What does that even mean?
Maggie Kane: So you have to come see it to really see it in action.
Maggie Kane: But we are a restaurant in downtown Raleigh.
Maggie Kane: We look and feel like a normal restaurant, any restaurant.
Maggie Kane: You go into some of my favorites.
Maggie Kane: I was always at Global Village or Jasmine when I was in college and we look just like that.
Maggie Kane: You walk in, you see fun photos on the wall, you hear good music, you smell good food.
Maggie Kane: It's only until you get up to the register where it starts to look a little different.
Maggie Kane: At that point, you've seen suggested, you've seen signage for volunteers.
Maggie Kane: And so that's what.
Maggie Kane: Pay what you can.
Maggie Kane: That's the, that's the difference in a normal restaurant is all of our prices on the menu are pay our suggested prices and pay what you can.
Maggie Kane: So you can choose to pay that price.
Maggie Kane: You can pay more and pay it forward for someone else who can't afford their meal.
Maggie Kane: You can pay less.
Maggie Kane: We know that some weeks are harder than others and all you can afford is less.
Maggie Kane: And that is fantastic.
Maggie Kane: That is great.
Maggie Kane: If you can't pay less, you can volunteer with us.
Maggie Kane: So we see a lot of folks coming in and volunteering for their meal.
Maggie Kane: We also feed, if you are a fan family, so there is a guardian and a child.
Maggie Kane: We feed families for free once a week so you can come in with your family, eat indignity and enjoy a meal with us once a week.
Maggie Kane: And then we also have place cards.
Maggie Kane: These place cards get handed out all across town in lots of different non profits including Feed the Pack food pantry at NC State.
Maggie Kane: So you can come in and get a meal with us with this place card.
Maggie Kane: It looks like a credit card or gift card and all you have to do is just hand it in for your meal, pass it over and you can get your meal of choice.
Maggie Kane: So again we are like a normal restaurant like any of us would go to if we can afford it.
Maggie Kane: But all of our prices are suggested and so you really can get, you can get that avocado toast or that waffle and then pay what you can for your meal.
Sophia Magnanini: I didn't know about the people can pay more extra for someone.
Sophia Magnanini: Yeah, that's really cool.
Sophia Magnanini: And I feel like.
Maggie Kane: Yeah.
Maggie Kane: And people do it all the time.
Maggie Kane: And it like I've really realized that this community is so generous and so kind and people pay what they can all the time or people pay it forward all the time.
Maggie Kane: And for us, our staff, we have a paid staff, about 25, they make a living wage so we don't take tips like most restaurants.
Maggie Kane: And so our staff will hand the, you know, hand the iPad over to you and they'll say that all tips are donations and they go right back into paying it forward.
Maggie Kane: So even if you just tip, you're paying it forward for someone else.
Sophia Magnanini: No.
Sophia Magnanini: That's awesome.
Sophia Magnanini: And I bet that just does so much to build the community and bring it all together and helping so many people are like going into it, being a part of it and that's just really cool.
Sophia Magnanini: What would you say like a typical day at the cafe looks like?
Maggie Kane: Every day, Every day is different.
Maggie Kane: Every day is different.
Maggie Kane: Every day is, is so unique and so interesting and just literally the best thing ever.
Maggie Kane: We are open Tuesday through Sunday from 8am to 2pm so we're breakfast and lunch.
Maggie Kane: We serve breakfast and lunch all day.
Maggie Kane: And another Part of our mission that I'll say that kind of tells you how the day is our mission is community and good food for all, regardless of means.
Maggie Kane: So we use good food.
Maggie Kane: Our food is phenomenal.
Maggie Kane: So we have everything from really huge and delicious sandwiches to fresh salads to soups of the day to all, you know, breakfast plates and burritos and so.
Maggie Kane: So we use that good food as a tool towards creating community.
Maggie Kane: So bringing people together.
Maggie Kane: So whether you're eating together, so you'll see on every typical day you'll see people just like snacks, eating together at community Table and sitting next to each other, you'll also see folks.
Maggie Kane: The other way we build community is by volunteering together.
Maggie Kane: So you can come in and volunteer for your meal and about 100 people a day do it.
Maggie Kane: But we also see lots of folks that sign up online to volunteer or they have a weekly shift with us.
Maggie Kane: We have a lot of NC State students that have a weekly shift with us and everyone gets a meal.
Maggie Kane: Everyone does the same thing, but you'll just see lots of different people floating around the restaurant, chatting, engaging, hugging.
Maggie Kane: I have a, I have a good friend that always says Table is the place with the most hugs per capita.
Maggie Kane: Per capita.
Maggie Kane: So you always see people hugging, always see people just like, yeah, having good conversation together.
Maggie Kane: So it, every day is different but in general each day you'll see lots of folks engaging in relationships and community.
Maggie Kane: You'll see lots of folks eating.
Maggie Kane: You'll smell really awesome food.
Maggie Kane: Like our food is phenomenal, our team is phenomenal.
Maggie Kane: And you'll see us just fighting like a normal restaurant.
Sophia Magnanini: What kind of does the volunteering look like?
Sophia Magnanini: Because I know there's probably different forms and if you could kind of explain some of that.
Maggie Kane: Yeah, totally.
Maggie Kane: Sure.
Maggie Kane: So anyone can volunteer and we'd love to have you.
Maggie Kane: You can show up at any time in the day from 8 to 2 and volunteer and get a meal or not get a meal, doesn't matter to us.
Maggie Kane: We're going to offer it to you anyway.
Maggie Kane: So you can show up at any time and we'll check you in.
Maggie Kane: Our awesome team will check you in and get you situated in our system and then you can also sign up online.
Maggie Kane: So we have a, a form online that you can just sign up, pick a three hour shift and come in and volunteer with us at that scheduled time.
Maggie Kane: Also, same thing, you'll check in when you get there, we'll get you situated somewhere and then you also can pre schedule and have a weekly or bi weekly schedule with us.
Maggie Kane: So we've had 100 people that also have a weekly or bi weekly schedule with us.
Maggie Kane: They come every Tuesday from 8 to 11.
Maggie Kane: So all three ways to volunteer, everyone is doing the exact same thing.
Maggie Kane: They are, they are whatever we need to at that moment.
Maggie Kane: So, so our team will say, hey, we need someone in the dish room or we need someone sweeping.
Maggie Kane: Which one do you want to do?
Maggie Kane: Hey, we need someone bussing tables.
Maggie Kane: We need someone delivering coffee to tables, the coffee station.
Maggie Kane: So we have, we, we typically give you an option if there's different things that are available.
Maggie Kane: But everyone is given the same thing.
Maggie Kane: There's no hierarchy on volunteering.
Maggie Kane: And the coolest thing is that like you don't know who volunteered for their meal and who didn't.
Maggie Kane: Everyone gets a meal, no questions asked if you want one.
Maggie Kane: And everyone gets the same option whether you want to pay less or volunteer.
Maggie Kane: So it's a really cool way to just be amongst people you would never have met.
Sophia Magnanini: No.
Sophia Magnanini: Yeah.
Sophia Magnanini: I can only imagine just the amount of different people coming in every day.
Sophia Magnanini: The regulars that are coming in like weekly, that's just so cool.
Sophia Magnanini: Also gives them kind of a sense of normalcy and just a lot of like really a safe space.
Maggie Kane: It really does.
Maggie Kane: It's, and it's been that way.
Maggie Kane: It's been so cool to be able to build relationships with all different people and see things that have happened out of connections and community.
Maggie Kane: I'm a big believer that community is everything and we need community in our lives.
Maggie Kane: And so it's been so cool to see, you know, what's happened in community.
Sophia Magnanini: I totally agree.
Sophia Magnanini: And what initially drew you to starting this?
Maggie Kane: Yeah, amazing question.
Maggie Kane: So I graduated from C State and at the time I was volunteering at a day shelter, working with folks on the street.
Maggie Kane: I was, I was a part of campus ministry at NC State.
Maggie Kane: And so while I was there we had heard about this day shelter and I got involved and I started volunteering there.
Maggie Kane: And when I graduated, several folks from the day shelter came to my college graduation and I said, okay, this is what the work I need to do.
Maggie Kane: This is the work I want to do.
Maggie Kane: So started, you know, took a job over at the day shelter and saw that while, you know, there were great places, great non profits for people without money, and then there were great places for people with money, right?
Maggie Kane: Restaurants, coffee shops, bars.
Maggie Kane: But there was no place that welcomed everyone to come together in one place.
Maggie Kane: So started researching.
Maggie Kane: I found the pay what you can system and said, okay, if other people can do this, then we certainly can too.
Maggie Kane: And.
Maggie Kane: And started building it and we opened four years later, so we opened 2018.
Sophia Magnanini: That's awesome.
Sophia Magnanini: Because it's not only are you hoping to impact these people, but then they are also impacting you in such a very.
Sophia Magnanini: Not satisfying way, but a very comforting.
Maggie Kane: Yeah.
Sophia Magnanini: And it's just.
Maggie Kane: Oh, they do for sure.
Sophia Magnanini: Are there any.
Maggie Kane: I get.
Maggie Kane: I get just as much out of it as anyone who comes in for a meal.
Maggie Kane: It's.
Maggie Kane: And so does our.
Maggie Kane: I think our whole team would say that too.
Maggie Kane: It's been.
Maggie Kane: It's truly been such a gift.
Sophia Magnanini: Are there any kind of special stories or a moment that really captured the heart of what a place at the Table is?
Maggie Kane: I mean, a thousand stories.
Maggie Kane: How much time do you have?
Maggie Kane: We have so many stories.
Maggie Kane: I. I mean we.
Maggie Kane: We see so many individuals, so many families, so many folks that come in and it really affects both sides of the coin here.
Maggie Kane: Like, it affects folks with means and it.
Maggie Kane: Folks, people without means.
Maggie Kane: But I'd say, you know, I, I just.
Maggie Kane: Being a place for folks that are really lonely has been really such a gift to me and such a gift to so many people.
Maggie Kane: We.
Maggie Kane: We.
Maggie Kane: One in particular that I'm thinking of, he started volunteering with us right when we opened and he really wanted a meal.
Maggie Kane: He wanted to eat and he was hungry and so he'd volunteer with us and then he would get a meal.
Maggie Kane: And then, and then as soon as he started meeting people, he.
Maggie Kane: He would start volunteering for like three, four, five hours.
Maggie Kane: And then we'd offer him a meal.
Maggie Kane: He wouldn't really want one.
Maggie Kane: He wouldn't really care about it.
Maggie Kane: And then pandemic hit.
Maggie Kane: We closed and he.
Maggie Kane: We were doing curbside and just doing the food.
Maggie Kane: We never saw him.
Maggie Kane: He never came in because he just said, I'm good, and would walk by.
Maggie Kane: As soon as we reopened inside for volunteering, he came back and he started volunteering again, started joking, started laughing with our community.
Maggie Kane: And I think what we realized in that moment is this was this place, this is community.
Maggie Kane: And, and without community there we have nothing.
Maggie Kane: And so we have a thousand of those stories.
Maggie Kane: And it's just been really like, special to be a part of it.
Sophia Magnanini: I.
Sophia Magnanini: That is probably is just such a.
Sophia Magnanini: Once again a safe space and all these people are coming here that at first we're just thinking that like, oh, I'm able to get a meal here and meet, but then they end up Meeting all these different people and it turns to kind of like their family, the community.
Sophia Magnanini: And that's just.
Sophia Magnanini: That's really special.
Maggie Kane: Yeah, it's been so cool.
Sophia Magnanini: Why do you think it's important to create spaces like this in downtown Raleigh and beyond?
Sophia Magnanini: I know were saying there's so many reasons, but also, I know, like you were saying before, the community of it all.
Maggie Kane: The community, yeah.
Maggie Kane: I think there's a ton of reasons to create spaces like this.
Maggie Kane: I think, you know, in life, what we realize at Table is people are food insecure and they are hungry.
Maggie Kane: Right.
Maggie Kane: But people are really community insecure and searching for people in their lives to support them, to.
Maggie Kane: To be there for them, to love them.
Maggie Kane: And I think that is everything.
Maggie Kane: I think if you have support in your life, then.
Maggie Kane: Then you can do so many things.
Maggie Kane: And so that's really what we've.
Maggie Kane: I now, in every part of my life, are trying just to create a place at the Table for people, whether it be, you know, in a local sports league or whether it be in a church community.
Maggie Kane: I mean, I just think people are looking for connection, and it's what makes our lives so full, like, wholeheartedly full.
Maggie Kane: And so I think just community is really important because I think we've really realized as the years have gone on, especially in the pandemic, that people are lonely.
Sophia Magnanini: Oh, I totally agree.
Sophia Magnanini: Because just having somewhere that you feel welcomed does so.
Sophia Magnanini: Does so much for someone, especially during, like, the pandemic.
Sophia Magnanini: I know you're talking about that earlier.
Maggie Kane: Yeah.
Sophia Magnanini: What were some of the challenges that you guys had to face while going through that?
Sophia Magnanini: Or were there other challenges before then or afterwards, too?
Maggie Kane: Yeah, we faced a ton of challenges during the pandemic.
Maggie Kane: We had to go.
Maggie Kane: We did not want to close down, so we just went curbside and we ended up serving upwards of 400 people a day and just pushing out meals.
Maggie Kane: Just the number of folks that were hungry and then the number of folks that were lonely and just needed someone to talk to.
Maggie Kane: That day, we just saw that skyrocket.
Maggie Kane: so that was really.
Maggie Kane: That was really intense and really tough.
Maggie Kane: I think our team, you know, a lot of folks were at home and.
Maggie Kane: And, you know, we're doing work from home jobs or in school.
Maggie Kane: Our team had to show up every day, and.
Maggie Kane: And that was hard, too.
Maggie Kane: Like, that was hard on our team who were afraid of this pandemic and.
Maggie Kane: And getting sick.
Maggie Kane: And so that was hard, but so well worth it.
Maggie Kane: And we.
Maggie Kane: We all were.
Maggie Kane: So we're super grateful that we Got to do it.
Maggie Kane: and I mean, I just think the unknown in general was really hard.
Maggie Kane: We didn't know how long we do it for.
Maggie Kane: We had to.
Maggie Kane: We had to knock off a huge piece of what we do, which is volunteerism, which is community building.
Maggie Kane: And so.
Maggie Kane: So that was really hard because that's a part that we.
Maggie Kane: We love so much.
Maggie Kane: And.
Maggie Kane: And we just couldn't do it temporarily.
Maggie Kane: So Pandemic definitely brought a challenges and we are glad that chapter is over.
Sophia Magnanini: Yeah, that was probably a very important part for so many people dealing with isolation and being able to get what they need and you guys providing.
Sophia Magnanini: Very important.
Sophia Magnanini: Very important.
Maggie Kane: Definitely.
Sophia Magnanini: Where do you see the cafe or the broader pay what you can movement going into the future?
Maggie Kane: Love it.
Maggie Kane: I hope it continues to grow.
Maggie Kane: We have great pay what you can cafe mentors.
Maggie Kane: Some have closed, some have continued to.
Maggie Kane: To stay the, you know, say the track, but stay on the track.
Maggie Kane: But.
Maggie Kane: But we get reached out to maybe once a month from someone else wanting to do this.
Maggie Kane: And so we talk to a lot of people wanting to start these across the country.
Maggie Kane: And I will be very excited to see it happen and very excited to see it continue to grow across the country.
Maggie Kane: I think it's.
Maggie Kane: It's difficult because restaurants in.
Maggie Kane: In general are really hard to operate and run financially.
Maggie Kane: And then you add a nonprofit restaurant on top of it, a place that's giving away a ton of meals.
Maggie Kane: So it's.
Maggie Kane: It's really difficult.
Maggie Kane: So it's.
Sophia Magnanini: It's.
Maggie Kane: It definitely takes a unique community like Raleigh to open one of these, but I.
Maggie Kane: My hope is that it will continue, and I think it will.
Maggie Kane: I have good friends in Charlotte who are doing this.
Maggie Kane: I have good friends in.
Maggie Kane: In Durham who are eventually going to do this.
Maggie Kane: So fingers crossed that it continues to grow because I think it's really catching on that people need communities like this.
Sophia Magnanini: Yeah.
Sophia Magnanini: I feel like the community part is just such a big part of it also.
Sophia Magnanini: But do you think.
Sophia Magnanini: I know that we have.
Sophia Magnanini: You have.
Sophia Magnanini: Yours is in downtown Raleigh.
Sophia Magnanini: Do you ever think of branching out and creating more in different towns?
Maggie Kane: Absolutely not.
Sophia Magnanini: No.
Maggie Kane: No.
Sophia Magnanini: One is enough.
Maggie Kane: One is enough.
Maggie Kane: We always think that would be a great idea.
Maggie Kane: And then we're like, no, because.
Maggie Kane: Not because we don't want to do it, but because the Raleigh.
Maggie Kane: Like I said, the Raleigh community created this.
Maggie Kane: And for us to go do it somewhere else, it wouldn't be authentic to who we are as a community.
Maggie Kane: We don't know what Durham's like.
Maggie Kane: We don't know what Greensboro is like.
Maggie Kane: But other people do.
Maggie Kane: And so if we can help you create it, if we can pass you the tools that we learned, then you're like, then I'm sure you will be way better off starting it.
Maggie Kane: Creating a beautiful community.
Maggie Kane: Exactly.
Maggie Kane: What with what your community versus us.
Maggie Kane: And so we just realized that, like, Raleigh has figured out Raleigh and let us help you figure out your.
Maggie Kane: Your.
Sophia Magnanini: Yeah, I think that's an awesome idea because then it's just kind of like a network that expands and then hopefully it'll just city to city.
Sophia Magnanini: This will be something that's kind of almost normalized in the future.
Maggie Kane: Correct.
Sophia Magnanini: And people can find that community wherever they want, as well as find somewhere that they can have food where they won't have to be really struggling to pay for it.
Maggie Kane: Exactly, exactly.
Sophia Magnanini: And if someone.
Sophia Magnanini: If the people listening right now want to get involved, whether they're like, donating, volunteering, or just like stopping by, how can they do that?
Sophia Magnanini: I know you're talking about coming in and then also on the website.
Maggie Kane: Yeah, visit our website.
Maggie Kane: Table Raleigh, dawg.
Maggie Kane: We're also on social media at Table Raleigh.
Maggie Kane: So come in, come check our stuff out, Come see us, come eat with us.
Maggie Kane: There's.
Maggie Kane: We have online ordering.
Maggie Kane: We have a donate page.
Maggie Kane: We have lots of different ways for you to get connected.
Maggie Kane: So we would love to see you.
Maggie Kane: And so please, yeah, check us out.
Maggie Kane: And we're in downtown Raleigh at 300 W. Hargitt St. 8 to 2.
Maggie Kane: So come eat with us.
Maggie Kane: I promise you the food is good and you will not regret it.
Sophia Magnanini: All right, perfect.
Sophia Magnanini: And you're saying your hours, you guys are Tuesday to Sunday.
Maggie Kane: Tuesday to Sunday.
Maggie Kane: Exactly.
Maggie Kane: Closed Mondays.
Sophia Magnanini: Have you.
Sophia Magnanini: What's like, the impact of the community that you've seen?
Sophia Magnanini: Like a change that the cafe has.
Maggie Kane: Kind of given, for sure.
Maggie Kane: We certainly have fed a ton of people.
Maggie Kane: So we see anywhere from 100 to 200 people a day that are getting a free or reduced meal, reduced price meal, a pay what you can meal.
Maggie Kane: But then I. I would just.
Maggie Kane: Again, it goes back to that community.
Maggie Kane: Like, we've just seen so many connections made.
Maggie Kane: Jobs that have been, you know, gotten friendships that have been developed.
Maggie Kane: It's been really neat to see that part.
Maggie Kane: And then, you know, then it sparked conversation across the country.
Maggie Kane: So with different folks wanting to do this work, which.
Maggie Kane: Which is also an awesome part of the impact that we don't talk about enough.
Maggie Kane: So I think it's.
Maggie Kane: It's more impact than we ever thought was possible.
Sophia Magnanini: No, that's amazing.
Sophia Magnanini: And when you're with all these people, and you're seeing meeting all these people and all these different stories, as well as just your staff.
Sophia Magnanini: Who.
Sophia Magnanini: Who inspires you, whether it's like in the team or just the whole broader nonprofit space is like, oh, my God.
Maggie Kane: Who doesn't inspire me?
Maggie Kane: So many people, but I would say my staff for sure.
Maggie Kane: They.
Maggie Kane: I'm the one that gets to be on these podcasts and chat with folks.
Maggie Kane: They are the ones that are in the cafe right now doing the work.
Maggie Kane: So this.
Maggie Kane: Our staff is like the best around.
Maggie Kane: And so it's.
Maggie Kane: It's really every day they inspire me to better and to keep, you know, working hard at continuing this mission and making it even, you know, more beautiful than we started.
Maggie Kane: And so definitely our staff.
Sophia Magnanini: That's awesome.
Sophia Magnanini: And outside of staff, I know you're talking about some other businesses.
Sophia Magnanini: What are some of, like, the local Raleigh community, like residents businesses, other nonprofits that kind of help work with you guys?
Sophia Magnanini: If there are any.
Maggie Kane: Oh, my God, how many?
Maggie Kane: So many.
Maggie Kane: You can see them all on our website.
Maggie Kane: We have, I mean, probably over 30 nonprofit partnerships that we work well with, like, frequently on the phone, frequently talking to, like, supporting back and forth, and then, I mean, hundreds of businesses.
Maggie Kane: Whether folks are catering with us, whether folks are donating to us, we have a huge number of corporate relationships and individual relationships that continue to support us.
Maggie Kane: I, you know, I always say that what's so cool about a place the Table is.
Maggie Kane: It's Raleigh's cafe.
Maggie Kane: And so truly, we could not do it without the Raleigh community.
Maggie Kane: So from folks dining, donating, volunteering, they're helping make a place to Table happen.
Maggie Kane: And it works.
Sophia Magnanini: No, that's awesome.
Sophia Magnanini: Because what you guys are doing for not only the people, but for other organizations so they can help out and have that sort of kind of satisfaction.
Maggie Kane: It all things.
Sophia Magnanini: And thanks.
Maggie Kane: We love it.
Maggie Kane: It's the best.
Sophia Magnanini: How.
Sophia Magnanini: How do you guys celebrate, like, milestones or like success stories within your team in the community?
Sophia Magnanini: Or is it kind of just an ongoing?
Maggie Kane: Ongoing.
Maggie Kane: So many successes.
Maggie Kane: I mean, we do a ton of shout outs.
Maggie Kane: We do a lot of.
Maggie Kane: We're so lucky because we get to do free desserts.
Maggie Kane: So we have a lot of huge pastry department or team.
Maggie Kane: So we always like, you know, any big milestones, you get a cinnamon roll, you get a cookie, whatever.
Maggie Kane: So we celebrate that way.
Maggie Kane: We sing Happy Birthday.
Maggie Kane: We like the whole cafe sings Happy Birthday.
Maggie Kane: So we do a lot of various things to celebrate.
Maggie Kane: Our team is a.
Maggie Kane: Is a big celebrating team.
Maggie Kane: Our staff close once a month and we, you know, just either celebrate, do something fun, do some sort of training.
Maggie Kane: So we are.
Maggie Kane: We're.
Maggie Kane: We're hoping.
Maggie Kane: Yeah, we're hoping that we can celebrate more.
Maggie Kane: life gets so busy, but we love celebrating things.
Maggie Kane: It's a great question.
Sophia Magnanini: It's nice to just kind of sit back, especially when everyone is taking so much time out of their life and day to make this such a possibility.
Sophia Magnanini: And it's.
Sophia Magnanini: It's also.
Sophia Magnanini: It's just so awesome.
Sophia Magnanini: The community.
Sophia Magnanini: Once again, I feel like community is going to be a very repeated community, but community it is.
Sophia Magnanini: Yeah.
Maggie Kane: Community is everything.
Maggie Kane: So it should be a repeated word, you know?
Sophia Magnanini: Exactly.
Sophia Magnanini: And as we're kind of.
Sophia Magnanini: We're kind of coming up towards the end and.
Sophia Magnanini: Are there any kind of upcoming events or campaigns, seasonal programs that you'd like to highlight?
Maggie Kane: I think no upcoming events or campaigns, but I would say.
Maggie Kane: I would say just coming to the cafe.
Maggie Kane: We'd love to see more folks coming in that don't know about us.
Maggie Kane: I would say we have.
Maggie Kane: We do have some fun things going on.
Maggie Kane: We're doing a coffee and conversations once a month with the city of Raleigh, so we're highlighting one important conversation so each month.
Maggie Kane: So last month we did Pride Month.
Maggie Kane: The month before that we did a mental health one.
Maggie Kane: So we're.
Maggie Kane: We're constantly trying to think of relevant conversations that we all should be talking about.
Maggie Kane: So you can see those on our website and social media as well.
Maggie Kane: But really just getting folks in the cafe is what we're looking for.
Sophia Magnanini: No, that's awesome.
Sophia Magnanini: And I feel like I definitely am going to try and come or check that out.
Maggie Kane: Yes, you have to come.
Sophia Magnanini: I have never been and I have always heard about it.
Sophia Magnanini: My parents go a lot and so they do.
Maggie Kane: Oh, fantastic.
Sophia Magnanini: They've gone.
Sophia Magnanini: They used to go a lot when I was kind of.
Sophia Magnanini: Not like a couple years ago, but okay, it's.
Sophia Magnanini: It was really cool and they were really excited.
Maggie Kane: Tell them to come back.
Maggie Kane: You have to.
Maggie Kane: You have to come eat with them.
Sophia Magnanini: I know.
Sophia Magnanini: Yes.
Sophia Magnanini: I feel need to.
Sophia Magnanini: Need to try out and try out the food.
Maggie Kane: We would love to see you.
Maggie Kane: We would love to see everyone.
Maggie Kane: Like I said, the food is really good and we just changed our menu, so everything is brand new.
Maggie Kane: The coffee is awesome.
Maggie Kane: We use black and white roasters from Wake Forest, so we would love to see y' all in there.
Sophia Magnanini: No, perfect.
Sophia Magnanini: And as we come up on the end of our chat, I just want to thank you again for coming in and chatting with me about your organization.
Sophia Magnanini: All that you guys do for the community.
Sophia Magnanini: It's.
Sophia Magnanini: It's amazing what you guys are doing, honestly.
Sophia Magnanini: And thank you all for listening to Oak City Move once again.
Sophia Magnanini: I'm your host, Sophia Manganini, and if you're interested in listening to this episode again or to past episodes of the show, you can go to wknc.org podcast and make sure to tune into our show every other Monday on WKNC, 88.1 FM Raleigh.
Sophia Magnanini: Have a great day.
