One World Cafe

One World Cafe
Storefront in April 2007
Restaurant information
Established	2003 (2003)
Closed	2012 (2012)
City	Salt Lake City, Utah
Coordinates	40°46′05.5″N 111°52′56″W / 40.768194°N 111.88222°W / 40.768194; -111.88222

One World Cafe was a nonprofit community kitchen, and predecessor to the One World Everybody Eats (OWEE) foundation based in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[1] Its motto was "a hand up, not a hand out." The community kitchen concept is a restaurant based on a gift economy, allowing patrons to "pay what they can" and serving all members of the community regardless of their ability to pay. The Cafe incorporated volunteer and common-effort aspects similar to those of a community garden. The organization's stated goal was to provide all who eat high quality, all natural, simple food and to ask patrons to give fairly in exchange so that all could partake. In 2012, the cafe would close as the owner chose to focus on helping other communities, replicating their One World Cafe model in their larger foundation.^[2]