Serving at Karma Kitchen is tough work. It's a bunch of strangers getting together and serving over a hundred guests in a busy restaurant for four hours, with an hour of cleanup before and after. Most have never worked in a restaurant before. Usually the guests come in bursts, and things get intense. Everyone is furiously multitasking, trying...

 Even in local projects, technology plays a role.  At KK, we had a  mobile Sunday  last week ... during the feed, various people followed us and a CNET editor  live-tweeted  to his 25K followers: "Can you run a business without prices? If so, is it a business? At #karmakitchen  t.co/2MXgXG0" ;...

On our first mobile Sunday , we ask this question to our guests. And we had some beautiful replies:   SMILE! You are from (heart) what you came. Don't be the man who shuts himself out until respect is earned ... be the man whose respect is always present, until lost. Naps are essential and singing to daily living....

It was our first social-media Sunday at #KarmaKitchen, so we'll try to capture the magic in 140 characters.  New kind of haikus perhaps. Brett, in opening circle, "I was gifted tix to sold out concert; the woman said, pay-it-forward at #KarmaKitchen, so I'm here to volunteer."   It looks like most of us are in...

Over  5 billion  mobile phones are currently used around the globe.   The unique part of mobile is that is creates a  SoLoMo  experience -- Social, Local, and Mobile.  And interestingly, Karma Kitchen is a platform to push those very bounds in a non-commercial direction.  So this Sunday, we're trying some...

On March 27, KK-DC hosted a fundraiser for Japan relief.  When I went to Japan on April 2-17, I took the $216 we had raised at KK and some other donations from friends.  On my way home back to DC from Japan, I wrote up the attached report to tell my experience in Japan.  Thank you for the opportunity, Aya April 17, 2011...

I head up a large social group in Washington DC (10,000+ members) and volunteer my time at least every other weekend.  I heard about the KK effort in DC and wanted to check out for myself as I am always looking for new things to do in the area to post to our calendar for our members. After my day of work, I will say this definitively:...

The theme of the day was spring, so many people wrote about new beginnings and hopes they had for themselves. One of our volunteers also come up with a super fun activity of having guests anonymously write love letters for other guests.  We had guests writing to other guests across the restaurant, to volunteers, and to servers in the...