Café Gratitude
Cafe Gratitude is a small West Coast chain of restaurants serving organic, plant-based (vegan), and often locally-grown food, founded by Terces and Matthew Engelhart.[2][3][4][5] Menu items feature such names as "I am Beautiful" and "I am Dazzling", with options ranging from appetizers, soups and salads, to entrées, brunch specials, sandwiches, veggie bowls and desserts.Employees described being denied promotion due to discomfort or disinterest in the intensive seminar, and one former manager was forced to step down and later fired after speaking critically of Café Gratitude's embrace of the Landmark program.[12] In 2016, Terces and Matthew Engelhart received a heated backlash after the vegan community learned that they chose to raise, slaughter, and consume cattle on their private farm, which supplied much of Café Gratitude's produce.[19] Cafe Gratitude started as a small chain of organic plant based restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, one in Berkeley and another in Santa Cruz.