PAID ADVERTISEMENT
REALITY KITCHEN IS COOKIN’!
We’re a bakery, a retail café and so much more!
Robert Reather, Chelsea Rust, and Program Director Catherine Pickup
welcome you to Reality Kitchen
We found the ideal facility to
host community events while creat-
ing an ambitious job skills training
program in the former Wild Plum
Bakery, 645 River Rd., in a lovely,
family-friendly neighborhood.
Our huge wholesale bakery
serves some of the best food ser-
vice businesses in Lane County
and allows us to develop jobs for
program participants while teach-
ing them skills, baking a growing
list of breads and pastries, preparing
orders for delivery and meeting po-
tential employers.
Among these businesses are
Rye Restaurant, Axe and Fiddle,
Sam Bond’s Garage and Brewing
Co., Tap and Growler, Toxic Wings,
Agate Laboratory, Bon Mi, Sam’s
on Franklin, Gridiron Sports Bar,
Blair Alley, Fisherman’s Market,
Tacovore, Lunch Box, Growler
Guys, Sam’s Place, Mothership
Food Cart, Lane Community Col-
lege and others.
Our café opens 8 am, Tues.-
Sun., with morning espresso drinks,
pastries, croissants, breakfast bur-
ritos, gluten-free treats, handmade
chocolates, pies and many sweet and
savory offerings. We bake breads,
baguettes, challah, burger buns and
brioche daily here, and serve salads,
sandwiches, Panini, vegan soups
(gazpacho and dahl), and our signa-
ture Bavarian pretzel.
Menu items include artisan
style pizzas, fresh-made pastas and
other international cuisine. We have
a selection of regionally-crafted
brews, ciders and wines, bottles
and growlers to go and bulk organic
grains, nuts, flours, herbs, oils, syr-
ups, honey and other dry goods.
These all support our nonprof-
it’s mission and we’re grateful for
the help many have given to make
this dream a reality.
We invite you to visit us, on
the bus line, close to everywhere
you want to be.
Blazing the trail to the future of employment
Reality Kitchen Nonprofit
is a community based nonprofit
organization developed as a job
skills training program for young
adults that experience intellectu-
al and developmental disabilities.
Our Pathways to Employ-
ment Program is based in a work-
place setting for participants to
learn diverse aspects of the food
service industry including cook-
ing, baking, customer service,
catering and keeping a kitchen
clean and running successfully
while building meaningful, ful-
filling lives.
Having a disability should
not be a barrier to finding or
keeping a meaningful job. Real-
ity Kitchen has been recognized
as the alternative to sheltered
workshops in Lane County fol-
lowing Governor Kitzhaber’s
Employment First Initiative by
offering a community inclusion
program that places its emphasis
on competitive wage employ-
ment and community inclusion
activities.
We open windows of oppor-
tunity to all persons with an inter-
est in growing their knowledge,
skills and desire to use their best
abilities to achieve independence
today and into the future. We are
committed to creating employ-
ment opportunities in the com-
munity through a series of assess-
ments, trainings and placement
and individualize the delivery of
our curriculum to support long-
term meaningful employment.
Reality Kitchen also offers
cooking skills classes to share
the fun of budgeting, planning
and preparing healthy meals, as
well as performance/art based
events, educational and informa-
tive lectures, movies, gatherings
in a family friendly facility for
the entire community to partici-
pate in and enjoy.
To make a tax deduct-
ible donation, visit our website:
www.realitykitchen.org for all
the details. There you can learn
more about us and our work. Fol-
low and “like” us on Facebook,
of course, and feel free to contact
us at: 541.337.1323
Please visit us at
www.realitykitchen.org
Learn more about
us and make a tax-
deductible contribution
to support our work
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