Now a Bookstore Cafe is not such a new idea but when is the last time you have seen a Bookstore Cafe that featured ‘Job Training’? Here is one!

“Two weeks ago, More Than Words, the nonprofit bookstore in Waltham, Mass., opened a cafe that, like the bookstore, is staffed by troubled young adults aged 16 to 21, according to the Daily News Tribune.

“Our goal is always to help them move on to bigger and brighter things,” Jennifer Stewart, director of operations, told the paper. “These are skills they can use primarily in the hospitality industry and the food service industry . . . Our goal is as we build the program to be giving them more skills to make them more marketable.”

Starbucks helped train the More Than Words baristas.”

Thanks, Shelf-Awareness.com for sharing this great idea!