 When our neighborhoods with the highest crime rate and the highest dropout rate and the least jobs are getting the worst food Most of our country is fed by corporations not chefs So so the question is like what can a chef do about it? How can a chef create change? In the ghettos of America we feed our children corrosive chemical waste What we're gonna do is we're gonna tackle the fast food industry and we do it like we know how it chefs We just get in and cook. I go by poppy on the streets And I'm from Los Angeles in the South Central Los Angeles. There are no chef-driven restaurants not one What if every high-caliber chef told our investors for every fancy restaurant? We build it would be a requirement to build a restaurant in the hood as well Roy Choy and Daniel Patterson Was the first person that came into our community? Since the 50s and kept a word Roy stole my heart when he gave me a couple of applications and asked me to go give them to people that couldn't read or write And he hired them. I'm kind of the mother of watts Lydia is the mother of watts period. They call me Mama Nisi. My name is Timothy Moore I'm in the barista here at Locos. We haven't had nothing like this in a while The environment is just it's uplifting to see something positive going on in the neighborhood. The name local it's two concepts together local like we're crazy to be doing this and then local, you know, we're local and so That became local. They've been showing structure to a lot of the young people that never had jobs Never worked before now. They're working and being responsible and take care of business I look forward to coming to work every day. It brought revenue into the community It brought jobs into the community. It did a lot of change in our community It's creating opportunities for a lot of people So I want to be one of the people to be able to move up and to bring other people in to have the same opportunities that I have No matter how people grew up if you give them delicious food, they choose delicious food There's there's a myth about the choice that's given. You know, we're actually not giving that choice to everyone Everything is made from scratch here in the back Locals food is some of it is organic. It's fresh every day. It's not something that's processed It's it's real food. A lot of people rave about the chicken sandwich. I like the chili ball the beef chili ball Chef Daniel and Chef Patterson has their own style. It's affordable Everybody can spend two dollars or three dollars and get a full meal You would think people would be scared to come but when they do come it's like, okay now We got something going is people want to come be a part of what we have going on Access to nutritious food is a fundamental right, you know, it's one that a lot of Americans don't enjoy Now I actually enjoy what I do and I still get the bills fading having fun doing it. I love my job