Our Story

Our Mission

Caterina’s Club’s mission is to provide warm meals, affordable housing assistance, and job training to homeless and low-income families throughout Southern California. It is supported by a vision where we are creating a modicum of consistency in these children’s lives through something as simple yet meaningful as a nightly dinner.

Our Vision

This overarching vision that started as preventing children in motels from going to bed hungry has turned into 5,005 vulnerable children receiving a meal every night at 104 sites throughout LA and Orange Counties; 264 families have been placed in permanent housing in safe neighborhoods through our Welcome Home program, and 600+ teens have trained through the Hospitality Academy at four Anaheim High Schools. Our vision is to provide every child with the resources, love, and encouragement they need to be healthy, safe, and educated.

Our Beginnings

It all started with Mamma Caterina. Bruno and his mother, Caterina, visited the Boys and Girls Club of Anaheim down the street from his restaurant (Anaheim White House), where his mother noticed that there was a 6-year old boy eating potato chips for dinner, because his family couldn’t afford a proper meal. Caterina insisted that Bruno make some pasta for the child. They soon realized that there were many more of these hungry ‘motel children’, so Bruno began making pasta for 72 children, 5 nights a week, giving birth to our program “Feeding the Kids in America”. Today, that event has expanded to feeding over 25,025 children a week. Frustrated that feeding the children was not enough, Bruno began a second program called “Welcome Home”, where we provide qualified families, living in the dark environment of a motel, with the necessary resources to move into the safety and stability of an apartment or condo.

Our Achievements

It always seems impossible until it’s done

5,055

Number of Children Caterina’s Club feeds each day

9,000,000

Number of meals served to date

104

Number of sites in 32 cities

264

Number of families relocated to date.

840+

Students have participated in Chef Bruno’s Hospitality Academy.

$42,500

Hospitality Academy scholarship dollars awarded to date.

Meet Chef Bruno Serato

The man behind it all.

The only chef in the world serving 5,055 underprivileged children warm dinners, every night. Named one of CNN’s 10 Heroes of the Year and featured in magazines (People, Elle, Vogue, Riviera), television (CBS Evening News, CNN, Univision) and newspapers (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, OC Register) countless times. He was honored on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with a humanitarian award and perhaps his highest honor was being knighted by the Italian Government, earning him the title, Sir Bruno Serato. Today, he continues to run his highly successful Italian steakhouse and extends his generosity to many other nonprofits besides Caterina’s Club.

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