A Kitchen With A Mission; Waioli Kitchen and Bake Shop Co-Founder, Ross Anderson

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A Kitchen With a Mission; Waioli Kitchen and Bake Shop

Ross Anderson — Co-founder

Restaurant veteran of 30+ years (formerly ran Hawaii's largest restaurant company). Now leads a mission-driven cafe on the Salvation Army property in Manoa that hires women coming out of the prison system. Co-founded with his wife Stephanie, a pastor who served at the women's prison.

The One-Sentence Story

A seasoned hospitality leader thought he could fix lives with checklists and tight supervision — then discovered that the real transformation only began when he stopped trying to give the women jobs and…