As we are wrapping up our time in Phoenix, Justin and I are looking forward to having the chance to focus again on researching ideas and business strategies.  I recently had the chance to email with a person who had worked at Sisters of the Road cafe in Oregon.  SOTR offers tasty meals (so I hear) for a set low price, and also has a voucher program set up as a way for people or churches or whomever to be able to give a "handout" to persons in need of a meal.  Essentially, it is a gift certificate for one meal.  I really liked this idea, and hope to use a similar approach.

SOTR is well-established, having been started in 1979 -- much older than the other establishments that we have been looking at.  This makes me want to investigate their model further and see how it has gotten to where it is today. 

Let the researching begin!