A CAFE

WITH A

CAUSE

Open daily 7am - 2pm

Our workforce development program focuses on healing, educating, and empowering at risk youth and young adults in our community.

Monkey Business Cafe is a benefit corporation owned by Hart Community Homes to provide marketable employment skills to emancipating foster care youth and at risk individuals in our community.

Monkey Business Cafe is a fully operational restaurant, food truck, and catering enterprise that serves as a work experience/job training site for emancipating foster youth and other at-risk individuals. 

Proceeds from the restaurant operations are reinvested into the operations to support the workforce and mentoring programs, allowing the restaurant to employ at-risk youth and young adults, as well as to provide the relatively high staff ratio needed to supervise and coach program participants.  The social enterprise project complements the agency's residential services for adolescent boys who are in foster care, giving them an opportunity to develop work and life skills in a supportive environment. 

The Results:

We create jobs for 50 -75 youth and young adults each year at Monkey Business.

Over 80% exit our program EMPLOYED or ENROLLED in post-secondary education

90% of eligible group residents earn their high school diploma

71% of eligible group home residents are working in Monkey Business Cafe

Our Locations

  • FULLERTON

    208 N. Lemon at Amerige

    Open daily 7am - 2pm

  • IRVINE

    17620 Fitch (2nd flr of OC Music & Dance) near MacArthur and Redhill

  • MBC FOOD TRUCK

    Serving all of OC.

    See our Instagram for the truck’s next stop!

    @MonkeyBusinessCafeOC

  • CATERING

    Contact us to cater your next event!

    (714) 526-2729

    catering@monkeybusinesscafe.net