Venice on Vine

Specialties

Pizzas, Hoagies, Salads, Soup. wifi, organic coffee, and local music. Friendly neighborhood restaurant. Food for meatlovers and Vegans, healthy and junk foodloving. Value meals for $ 2.50 and $ 5. Lunch and Dinner. We are a nonprofit jobtraining enterprise, so we serve good food for a good cause. By advance order we also cater a variety of home cooking specialties like chicken casseroles, tetrazzini, pork roast, lasagne, salads, cakes, bag lunches, reception trays, breakfasts, meeting dinners, feasts, for groups (churches, schools, nonprofits, sm businesses) 15 – 200.

History

Established in 1990.

Founded in the West End by a group of low-​income mothers working with a nuns from Sisters of Notre Dame De Namur and Dominican Sisters of Hope; the women most wanted productive work in a neighborhood that had been divested of jobs. We began with catering as productive work and shortly afterward purchased a pizza parlor on Marshall and McMicken to serve as our job training and community food central.

In 2005 we partnered with Over-​the-​Rhine Community Housing, University of Cincinnati and Miami University to renovate a historic theater building in Over-​the-​Rhine, and were the first new business in the area in over 15 years when we opened in September 2006. Since then, we’ve grown both in the food and customers we serve, and in our job training program, which helps folks who want to work but need help reentering the workforce.

Meet the Manager

PIP P.

Manager

Our Mission: Power Inspires Progress operates small businesses in the inner city to provide positive, meaningful work opportunities for adults with employment barriers. We teach basic education, life skills, work ethics and personal responsibility. Trainees gain the knowledge and experience to be successful in the workforce.



Our Values: Diversity. Education. Community. Collaboration