"I am interested in feeding people. It's what I've done my whole life. My first job was bussing tables, and then I ended up traveling around the US as a young woman, working in restaurants and learning my craft. I then came back to Maine and started a family. And now I get to help my community with the business I started with my son."
"My son was struggling in school and had a lot of anxiety. I ended up pulling him out and homeschooling him. We were learning fractions, so I began baking with him. And then, we needed to learn hands-on things like how to manage finances and count money, so we started bringing baked goods to farmers' markets. In 2017, we began Hailey's Kitchen in Windham."
"I went to post, and I saw a post from the local CBS affiliate WGME that talked about the loss of SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown. I thought, "How many people are going to be affected by this in our immediate community?" Our food banks are already stretched, and people are struggling. I thought, "I have a restaurant, I cook, and I feed people, so that's what we're going to do.""
Rebecca Coffin owns Hailey's Kitchen Cafe & Bakery in Windham, Maine. She learned restaurant work traveling around the US and returned to Maine to start a family and a business with her son. The bakery began after homeschooling her son and teaching him baking, money management, and selling goods at farmers' markets; Hailey's Kitchen opened in 2017. The cafe offers baked goods, pies, cakes, sandwiches, soups, avocado toast, bagels, smoothies, and frappes. In response to a government shutdown that would pause SNAP benefits, Coffin publicly offered free meals to those affected. The offer prompted an outpouring of community offers to help fund the meals.
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