Title:
He Trained in the Restaurant Industry, and Now He
Serves the Homeless
Description: This is
a VOA Special English General News Report.
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Text:
Steve Badt prepares meals for people who have no
place to live in Washington, D.C.
Steve Badt starts work early, while most people are
sleeping. He supervises meal preparation for more
than two hundred people. Badt left his job in the
restaurant industry seven years ago. He wanted to
continue his education and do something different.
He now works for Miriams Kitchen, a not-for-profit
group. It has been serving meals to homeless men and
women for more than twenty-five years. The
government says more than thirty-six million
Americans do not get enough to eat. Many are
homeless.
STEVE BADT: "At seven oclock, we will open up the
hot (food) line, and that is what everyone is
working on. These guys over here are cracking eggs,
preparing to do scrambled eggs. We are making
biscuits here. These are cream biscuits. Another
volunteer (is) on the griddle with ham. We have home
fries over there going on. And, a fruit salad over
here. Our goal is by 7 a.m. to have all this ready
to go to serve a hot meal.
The work is not easy for the volunteers at Miriams
Kitchen. But Steve Badt has a waiting list of
willing workers. Badt says he wanted to change the
way soup kitchens like Miriams Kitchen operate. He
would like to make them more energetic, like the
restaurants where he was trained.
There is no lack of comments about the food.
STEVE BADT: Seeing them every day in the morning and
having them come up to me and going, Oh, that was a
great meal. That feels pretty good. Once in a while,
they will go, That was a great meal, but those
biscuits, ehhh! So they are pretty blunt with their
criticism. But I like that. I like opinionated
customers, just like in the restaurants.
Homeless people come to Miriams Kitchen to seek
advice or get help in finding a place to live. But
workers say what the homeless want most is Steve
Badts hot meals. I'm Faith Lapidus.
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