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If you were poor hungry and homeless ( no one with a twitter or face book account is) and walked into every Boulder restaurant repeatedly and asked for a free meal, how many Boulder Restaurants do you think would feed you?? How many Boulder restaurants have as their mission statement ” We will never turn anyone down for a meal regardless of their ability to pay. ?? We  will turn no one away no matter how many times they come here looking for a meal. ? Even if they are dirty, mentally ill or been drinking he will feed them? How may Restaurants in Boulder have that policy?? All the hip conscious,  we want to change the world restaurants  like the Kitchen or Mod market, you’d think there would be a bunch right?

We aren’t talking about the restaurants who turn their nightly food over to Food Share or do benefits for the Home less shelter. We are talking about; If you are hungry and broke and walked in at 2:30 in the afternoon, how many Boulder restaurants would fix you a plate, give you a rootbeer and say “here you go, everybody has to eat”? Think Dave Query would do that? How about Whole Foods?

How about no they wouldn’t. They’d call the police or security and tell you to get the hell out. There is not one restaurant in Boulder that will feed you for free  day in and day out when you are down and out.

Well there is One, actually.  They not only will feed you, they will help you with other social services needs, too. That place is Daddy Bruce’s Bar B Que. It is run by an 82 year black man, the only black owned Restaurant in Boulder.  This week alone Bruce gave out over 70 meals. On top of that he took four sick men and women to the hospital ER. He took another poor soul to the Eyeglass store and bought her a frame for her broken glasses.  He took another man to Verizon store to buy a Charger for his phone and then after hours he drove a homeless family to Fort Collins.

Why does he do it.? A good old fashioned answer to that question. The bible tells me to. It is what Jesus taught. It is what we are all called to do. So Boulder Foodies, if you want to support a the only Boulder Restaurant with soul, go over to Daddy Bruces and order up $100 dollars worth of Bar B Q this week and pay homage to the holy man  who feeds the poor.