Ruby Slipper Cafe raises $3,500 for Kid's House
- July 6, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
The Ruby Slipper Cafe at 509 S. Palafox.
New Orleans-based restaurant the Ruby Slipper Cafe's arrival in Pensacola means more than bananas foster pain perdu for breakfast.
Erich and Jennifer Weishaupt started The Ruby Slipper Cafe in their Mid City neighborhood in New Orleans in 2008. They have four locations in New Orleans and expanded their network to 509 S. Palafox over the July 4 weekend.
Read here about how they entered the restaurant business and why they decided to add Pensacola to their portfolio.
The preview events for the cafe were Thursday and Friday. The preview was part of a fundraiser for Gulf Coast Kid's House, which according to the cafe's Facebook page raised $3,500.
Kid's House is a one-stop advocacy center that aims to improve the prosecution of child abuse cases, educates the community on the signs of abuse, and gives children and their families access to the resources they need to begin their recovery, all under one roof.
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