A Café That’s More Than Just Food
Edison International supports Monkey Business Café in Fullerton, a nonprofit restaurant whose mission is to help foster kids become self-sufficient young adults.
Ian Layman, a former Hart Community Homes foster child, joined the Navy before finding his way back to Monkey Business Café in Fullerton, where he now runs the front of the restaurant.
Jesse Flores, a former Hart Community Homes foster child, stands outside the Monkey Business Café with founder Cari Hart-Bunevith. Flores returned to the café as a mentor.
The staff at Monkey Business Café in Fullerton are all foster teens or at-risk youth who get restaurant training to help them live as self-sufficient adults.
This Trees of Thanks mural on a wall at Monkey Business Café in Fullerton acknowledges the businesses and groups who have helped its mission to give foster teens and at-risk youth life and work skills.
