Loaves & Fishes opens doors on new San Jose headquarters
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Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen has unveiled its new home on Berger Drive in San Jose. It’s the first permanent home for the nonprofit that got its start 40 years ago with 10 volunteers serving meals of fish and bread at St. Patrick’s Church. It has gone from a simple soup kitchen to one of the leading providers of meals for the hungry in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
“It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been involved in Loaves & Fishes since the beginning,” board chair Dan Barsanti recalled at the ribbon-cutting Friday. “My family business — Race Street Fish & Poultry, owned by the Barsanti and Riparbelli families — donated fish for the first meal Loaves & Fishes served. This home behind me has been 40 years in the making.”