The community hub offers a place at the table for everyone.
Gathering around the table is an integral part of Southern culture.
Often the hub of the home, the dinner table is where some of the best memories are made.
Southerners will say that some of their biggest life lessons and happiest memories happened around the dinner table.
How It Started
For some, however, getting to that communal table is challenging.
Mend is the couples answer to an inclusive, community-centric space.
Part of our mission has been about creating an interability community.
It’s not just focused on people with disabilities but creating a bigger and better table, Jay says.
In an if-you-know-you-know sort of way, these custom details arent noticeable to the naked eye.
Mirrors in the bathroom tilt downward, and theres no hand dryer because of the noise.
Even the menu has been thoughtfully curated.
That meant serving pastries from her favorite bakery in Atlanta,The Buttery, was a must.
The Wolfs partnered with bakery owner and acclaimed chef Linton Hopkins to make it happen.
The coffee is roasted byBellwood Coffee, another local small business.
Other food items are made in-house.
It is their hope it will become a community resource.
When we walked in the space [for the first time], Katherine and I both got teary.
