Chris S.
Yelp
Carroll's is a take-out sandwich shop, toasting pre-made gourmet sandwiches, topping them off with a bit of salad, chips, or other side, and sending you on your merry way. The menu is quite focused, focused on toasted goods and kolaches for breakfast. What's a kolache? It's a mini-stuffed pastry, somewhere between an empanada and a knish. Likewise, lunch is around eight different pre-made sandwiches, salads, and a couple soup choices. The sandwiches are more English-style (ie, higher quality ingredients, fewer ingredients in number, less culinary hoity-toity fuckery). I am a fan of eating these sandwiches standing up just outside because the toasted sandwich gets all steamed if you wait too long to eat it.
And I only found out after-the-fact that this is a social entrepreneurial venture, focusing on employing previously homeless women. Well color me impressed. When I first showed up, I noticed that the servers hadn't quite got their rhythm down but were very nice. I chalked it up to the place being brand spanking new and didn't think much about it - until now. I am impressed at how well staff operated.
Homelessness is obviously a problem and there are few ways that an individual can do to make meaningful change. A handful of change or perhaps a hot meal will help immediately, but it doesn't change somebody's life. This changes lives. I am a cynic, but even this douche bag brain can figure out that the extra buck I give here makes a difference.
Guess where I'm going for lunch today?