Your Gift Will Help Us Make A Difference Today
Imagine a world where no food is wasted, beauty and hospitality welcome people around a shared table with dignity.
We make every plate count - and you can too!
Our founders, Massimo Bouttura and Lara Gilmore, took an innovative approach to tackling food waste and social isolation in 2015, through a social act that brought people together to nourish those vulnerable around a shared table with community collaboration. Their creativity became a cultural project called Refettorio, meaning to restore and re-make, aimed at transforming how we value our food system and humanity. Their efforts to prioritize principles of beauty, hospitality and quality with sustainability into the design and service created opportunities for connection, curiosity and conviviality. The social kitchen transferred love to the table; and the Refettorio welcomed guests with dignity, making visible people and needs overlooked and disinvested. The space became a bridge of opportunity to socialize, seek support and gain kinship.
Since, we’ve become a global movement of Changemakers - nonprofit partners, volunteers, artists, designers, chefs, private and public sector supporters - uniting in the expansion of Refettorio projects around the world to reinvent underutilized space into places of social and economic empowerment.
Today, our global Refettorio Network, includes the collaborative opening of 12 unique projects and partnerships across 9 countries, each transforming surplus imperfect foods into delicious and nutritious meals and hosting a range of wrap-around activities such as skills training, health and hygiene care, workforce and housing pathways. Refettorios open their doors for food, art and cultural events that bring people together in solidarity to support impact. Read more about how we are making a difference in our Collective Impact below.
Your donation directly aids our Refettorio Network expansion in the opening of 4 new projects by 2026 and the ongoing leadershipof our Refettorio partners - alleviating cycles of waste, poverty and isolation for those most vulnerable. With every contribution, we invest 10% in advocacy and collective impact building to create the education tools, resources and information that helps advance healthy sustainable food access, well-being and improved livelihood for all.
Join us to Change Behaviors and Transform Lives.
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COLLECTIVE ACTION + COMMUNITY IMPACT
2393 tonnes of Food Saved & Diverted from Landfill
We promote responsible food production and consumption in the home and across our Refettorio Network, helping transform food surplus into delicious nutritious meals.
Our Refettorio food model is built around the prevention and reduction of food loss and waste and the promotion of local, seasonal and indigenious foods. Refettorios are active agents in keeping food out of landfill acting as recipient sites for redistributed surplus and imperfect foods, Each project is setting best practices for minimizing waste in the production of meals, composting and rcycling whenever possible.
3.762 MIL Shared Meals
We believe in the right to good food with dignity. The Refettorio model delivers food assistance to anyone in need with radical hospitality, turning each dining experience into a place of respite, pleasure and social interaction for guests.
Each multicourse meal represents our zero waste philosophy and committment to share healthy, flavorful and culturally diverse recipes around the table.
1.44 MIL Guests
The Refettorio is a community place for guests to connect, start a conversation, and seek the support they need. We welcome individuals socially vulnerable, experiencing isolation and marginalization to come enjoy a meal with us. Our guests are facing barriers to better livelihood, often homeless, rough sleeping, seeking asylum, refugees, physical and mental health support, loss of employment and generational poverty.
Refettorio meals are a first step to improving a guests access to fresh healthy food, well-being and self sufficiency. A Refettorio is a bridge in the community and a place for social and economic empowerment.
170K + Volunteers
Our community of support is made up of Nonprofit partners, Community Organizations, Chefs, Designers, Artists, Suppliers, Corporate Teams, Government and Non-Government entities.
who give their time, knowledge and network to support our cause. They help share our mission, fundraise for campaigns, provide their expertise and services to help develop, open and sustain Refettorio projects around the world.