Social Enterprises
Building Sustainability
Through doing business as mission we are impacting our communities in powerful sustainable ways.
Our Social Enterprises are more than just businesses. Each one is a business on a mission seeking to achieve the following goals:
- Create jobs for our community.
- Teach Cambodians new job skills.
- Intentionally build meaningful relationships with our employees.
- Love and serve our customers.
- Earn money to help support our projects in Cambodia.
Through doing business as mission we are impacting our communities in powerful sustainable ways.
To our customers, Common Grounds Cafe is a American Cafe in the heart of Siem Reap serving delicious local and western dishes along with amazing coffee and drinks.But behind the scenes Common Grounds is a social enterprise that hires poor and uneducated young people from impoverished areas across Cambodia and provides them with on the job vocational training. All of our trainees specialize in a specific area of the restaurant for their training: front house staff, kitchen staff, or bakery staff but are also cross trained in all main areas of the restaurant. This gives them valuable experience and concrete skills they can use to launch their career in the food and beverage industry. Since 2008 Common Grounds has trained and employed over 100 Cambodians. You can now find them working in some of the finest restaurants and hotels throughout Cambodia.
Bonfire Grill is a mid to high end restaurant serving real American Style Barbecue to those craving for a taste of home. Launched in 2020 during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic, Bonfire Grill was started to create jobs and employ poor Cambodians at risk of exploitation. We are thrilled to offer on the job vocational training to our employees teaching them to work in high end restaurants within the food and beverage industry.
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