How to Support Refettorio Detroit

Leave a legacy in Detroit with Acknowledgement on our Donor Wall and a Quote on a Dining Room Chair

About Your Donation

In building Refettorio Detroit, the pillars of our vision are: dignified hospitality, togetherness through design, sustainablity and Detroit pride. We are building a future to expand our legacy of impact by transforming surplus food into nourishing meals and creating a welcome space for our guests. Your support helps bring this vision to life.

With your donation of $2,500, we will recognize you by adding your name to our donor wall in our new dining space. Donors at this level may also select a meaningful quote from the list to the right, which will be inscribed on a plaque affixed to the back of one of our new dining room chairs.

This opportunity is limited to the first 100 chairs on a first come, first served basis.

Quote Options

Please select a primary and secondary choice for your quote from the list below. If a quote has already been used 10+ times will use your secondary quote.
Please note that this opportunity is limited to the first 100 chairs on a first come, first served basis.
Each person is limited to a selection of 2 chairs.


“Where we welcome one another, the Lord is already seated among us.”

“Let our tables be places where no one is a stranger and no one goes hungry.”

“Thank God ahead of time.”

“A Capuchin table is never full until everyone has a place.”

“Let gratitude season every dish and humility fill every seat.”

“May all who sit here feel loved.”

“Care for one another, as creation cares for us.”

“Charity begins at the table, where no one is forgotten.”

“Let every encounter be a blessing.”

“Let us be grateful for each other.”

“Hope grows where love is shared.”

“Around this table we are ONE family.”

“Welcome each guest as Christ himself.”

“This is a place where honor is given to every person.”

“Let every meal remind us of God’s constant generosity.”

“Gather with kindness, eat with gratitude, leave with peace.”

“We nourish the body with food and the soul with welcome.”

“Togetherness is nourished one plate at a time.”

“Each person who joins us brings a blessing greater than the meal itself.”

“The Capuchin Province of St. Joseph teaches us: provide quietly, love boldly.”