In partnership with the Players Coalition and Stand Together Foundation, Café Momentum is returning to the 2024 Super Bowl Media Center and Radio Row! Together, we can rebuild community systems that provide resources, opportunities, and support for youth to accomplish their dreams. ORDER NOW We’re offering complimentary lunch on February 7th and 8th from 11am Las Vegas, NV (February 9, 2024) – Earlier this week, Café Momentum—an award-winning national nonprofit restaurant staffed almost entirely by justice-involved youth—teamed up with Players Coalition and Stand Together Foundation to bring its life-changing model to Super Bowl Media Center powered by Verizon to reshape the culture around how our country supports justice-involved and at This year’s Super Bowl was timely, considering Café Momentum’s model is currently growing — and fast. In addition to its Dallas flagship location and branches in Pittsburgh and Nashville, the organization is establishing new roots in cities across the country, including Atlanta and Denver. Momentum Advisory Collective (M.A.C.) — the parent company driving Café Momentum’s national expansion with support from Stand Together Foundation — saw the Super Bowl as an exciting stage Phoenix, AZ (February 9, 2023) – Today, Café Momentum —a top-rated restaurant that is almost entirely staffed by youth who have experienced the juvenile justice system—has teamed up with Players Coalition and Stand Together Foundation to bring its innovative model to the Super Bowl for the second year in a row to show that there is a better way to support justice-involved youth. Former NFL players Shaun Alexander and Dhani Jones joined award-winning chef Chad Houser at the Super Bowl to promote Café Momentum, a restaurant helping guide troubled youth. Café Momentum hosts pop-up dinner in Los Angeles during Super Bowl Week with Stand Together and Players Coalition She was released from prison less than a month before she visited a juvenile detention center in Dallas to speak. During her visit, she inspired a young woman to become a future Café Momentum ambassador. Johnson says when she met her again at the 2020 Super Bowl — that young woman was working, serving the cafe’s chicken and biscuits. Café Momentum’s traveling to the Super Bowl in partnership with the Stand Together Foundation and Players Coalition. This article tagged under: Dallas. on now. 12:30AM: NBC 5 Late News. On Wednesday, Feb. 7, and Thursday, Feb. 8, Café Momentum will host a pop-up lunch at Super Bowl LVIII’s Radio Row to allow members of the media to experience the impact of both organizations. Café Momentum Super Bowl Pop Up Dinner in Miami 2020 In partnership with Stand Together, Players Coalition and the NFL’s Inspire Change initiative, we hosted a pop-up dinner where 12 previously incarcerated young people (who had only 48 hours to train) prepared and served the dinner. As crowds gathered and athletes converged in Miami for the Super Bowl this weekend, some unlikely partners joined together for a unique dinner that has the potential to spark a national movement and inspire change within juvenile justice. In partnership with the Players Coalition and the NFL’s Inspire Change initiative, Stand Together hosted a pop-up [] Cafe Momentum’s employees have appeared at pop-up events at several Super Bowls. But its roots will always be in Dallas. Reps from Dallas-based Cafe Momentum served free food at Super Bowl LVII in Arizona in 2023 in an effort to talk about juvenile justice reform.(Gina Danals) From its start, Houser and his team taught teens how to cook and In partnership with Stand Together, Players Coalition and the NFL’s Inspire Change initiative, we hosted a pop-up dinner where 12 previously incarcerated young people (who had only 48 hours to train) prepared and served the dinner. Dinner attendees included highly recognized and decorated NFL players, top business leaders, policy advocates and community leaders – cementing [] Café Momentum is an award-winning restaurant and culinary training facility. We aim to transform young lives by equipping our community’s justice-involved youth (ages 15-19) with life skills, education and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential. Momentum Advisory Collective (M.A.C.), the parent company of Café The nonprofit organization helps at-risk teenagers transition to life post-detention through restaurant work and will be serving food at the Super Bowl this weekend. Read more here. Left: A Café Momentum intern putting the finishing touches on the table for the Café Momentum pop-up dinner for the 2020 Super Bowl in Miami, Florida; photography by Chad Windham. Right: Chad and the Café Momentum interns at a pre-pop-up training in Atlanta, Georgia; photography courtesy of Stand Together Foundation. The collective is taking the Café Momentum model national, opening new outlets for the concept in Nashville and Pittsburgh this year and hosting pop-up events in other cities — like a recent star-studded dinner at Rossoblu in Los Angeles on Super Bowl weekend. Café Momentum targets kids between the ages of 15 and 19, an age that many We had an amazing #SuperBowlExperience with our friends StandTogether, Inspire Change and Cafe Momentum. Together, we continued to raise awareness about our NFL athletes support formerly-incarcerated youth at transformative Super Bowl dinner. As crowds gathered and athletes converged in Miami for the Super Bowl this weekend, some unlikely partners joined together for a unique dinner that has the potential to spark a national movement and inspire change within juvenile justice.
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