Community & impact
Creating opportunity through hospitality.
Through Mise En Place and the Clean Habits custodial program, Chef Rome has created job opportunities across Chicagoland, especially for young people of color.
Workforce development
Training that leads to careers.
Mise En Place
A culinary and hospitality training program that helps at-risk youth get jobs in the culinary field.
miseenplacechicago.org ↗(opens in a new tab)Rome’s Joy Institute
Education and workforce development, recognized by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
Clean Habits
A custodial training program that extends career pathways beyond hospitality.
Rome and a Day Productions
A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Where our trainees land jobs
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois Chicago
- Northwestern University
- Sodexo Magic
- Bon Appétit
- Culinare
- Chartwells
Community partners
- Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP)
- After School Matters
- Ada S. McKinley
- Chicago Cook Workforce
- Chicago Public Schools
- Healthy Schools Campaign
- YMCA
- Centers for New Horizons
- Education to Careers
- Alternative School Network
- Growing Home
- Grow Greater Englewood
- Chicago Gourmet
- Chicago Chefs Cook
- Washburne Culinary School
Rooted in Bronzeville.
Chef Rome believes reinvesting in historic Bronzeville will leave a lasting, positive mark on a community with deep roots. Blanc Art Gallery and Parkway Social bring culture and gathering space to King Drive.