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LET THE PEOPLE EAT! @smackdabchi will feed anyone unable to pay a Holy Trinity Combo anytime we’re open. ❤️ Spread the news.❤️ Also, mark your calendars for the next Free Community Dinner on December 3rd at 5 pm! Volunteers very welcome to assist with meal distribution. Want to support? Donate via our online ordering platform or to our Venmo @smackdabbers (links in bio). FOOD IS LOVE. don’t ever let them tell you otherwise!

(Or: Why Self-Important Kitchen F*ck Boys Are Not the Answer: Death to Kitchen Tweezers! Long Live the Revolution!) With each passing day that multiple genocides continue, I lose faith in my fellow food business owners. A supermajority of us entrepreneurs seem unwilling to take risks of any size in regards to Palestine or any other less than perfectly palatable social justice cause—maybe we’re just generally kind of okay with genocide/fascism/racism/ecocide cause we’re too busy, too tired, or have completely bought into these harmful systems that are KILLING US ALL, thinking it was the way to success. Okay. Heard. I’ll come back to that. Luckily I was a worker in the service industry for about a decade before I was a business owner, so this one is for us. ❤️ While it’s true that there is a lot of trauma, normalized violence and addiction in our industry, I’ve never seen a more resilient, multi-faceted and talented community than service industry folks. We have tremendous collective and individual power, not only in our industry numbers but in terms of how many humans we’re in physical proximity to and engaging with daily. Some people sit in front of a screen all day alone for their job. Not us—we’re on the front lines of humanity in a way. While it is often not pretty and we can get jaded and burned out, the potential to make change in our communities is real. I want to repeat it—this revolution needs us. It needs YOU. No first (or second or third or thousandth) step is too small. Find your WHY in the fight against global fascism and genocide (shouldn’t be hard, honestly). START SPEAKING OUT + STOP SHUTTING UP. Don’t let perfectionism stop you from doing or saying the things. And if you’re worried what’s going to happen if you take public action… I hear you, it’s scary and new and your life will change and many people are going to stop liking “you”… but you speaking up isn’t just about you, it’s about innocent people around the world being killed on our tax dollars. It might cost you to speak out, but we can’t afford to stay silent any longer. 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 Xo Teeny

Thoughts on the deafening silence in our industry regarding Palestine. 🇵🇸

FREE COMMUNITY DINN TONIGHT! 5 pm until sold out. Turkish Stew + Rice, Slaw and Dessert. Vegan/GF, snag up to ten meals for you, your neighbors, friends and family. Everyone welcome! We’ll hand out 250 portions—any extras (not common these days) go to @thelovefridgechicago at Honeybear Cafe down the street! These meals cost about $3/each to provide… support our mutual aid efforts by eating at Smack Dab, booking catering, or donating through our website.

Patio vestibule is off! So much power washing… 🫦 We’ll be open May Day, BOGO Friday continues with Grits Bowls as the special, the Rampire Slayer launches and we can’t wait to see you. 🌱 NEXT Wednesday is Free Community Dinner with Turkish stew.

A meal that could convince me to go vegan 🔥👀 That breakfast sandwich is outta this world- everyone needs to try it! #veganbrunch #veganinchicago #vegansandwich #vegandonuts #brunchinchicago

Buy One Get Friday is here... (Yup, every Friday we offer specials that are BUY ONE GET ONE FREE. Handmade, scratch to order food... for free. Admit it, we spoil y'all...) Today's Deals: Best Sellers (with option to sub in veggie jams), Classic Sammies, Lavender Lemonade and Raspberry Lemonade! Bring in your lover(s), your friends, your frenemies and hang on our patio--or bring some brekkie to your officemate. Bribe your boss with brunch even. If you order online, you have to have TWO of the items in your cart to qualify as you can mix and match the deal.

Sorry y'all. We're gonna be real with you. Waiting in line for 3 hours for bagels is bonkers. We love bagels too. And we've got tons of top notch bagel options here on far North Side. All of the flavor. All of the carbs. Without the insane wait times. You could even travel back-and-forth from, say, Lincoln Park to Edgewater to grab bagels from any of these places, and even visit a couple cute vintage shops while you're here, in less time than it takes to wait in a 3 hour line. Just saying. @varietalebagels @thelosthourscoffeeshop @loavesandwitches @smackdabchi

Today on Non-Binary Parent Day, I want to celebrate a Smack Dabber and a beautiful friend: KT (they/them). Originally a customer, we bonded over being pregnant during COVID, then began a friendship from there. They're now family. ❤️ KT is smart and passionate--they're a champion for the vulnerable and they've got a fire in them that wants to burn all the bullshit down. They're also fiercely queer, even though that queerness sometimes gets subsumed by a cis/straight-passing outward appearance with kids and a cis husband. So join me in celebrating KT and all non-binary parents in all their radical wholeness, their queerness and their authenticity today and every day. And for all those who are digging deep and fighting to live a life that feels true for you--I couldn't be prouder to know you. xoxo Teeny

All self-identifying non-binary parents get 50% off their brunch this weekend in honor of Non-Binary Parents Day on Sunday! Meet Annie (she/her), CJ (they/them) and Jude (TBD). Like many of our regulars, we have the pleasure of seeing them daily—sometimes even twice in a day. 🙃 They’re outstanding humans and keeping them well-fed and caffeinated as they parent outside the binary is why we love doing what we do. So many of our peeps are parents but don’t identify with Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. This weekend, we want to celebrate you—tell our register person you’d like a Beyond the Binary brunch and your meal is half off. Spread the word, fam! Xoxo

Just in time for the Lez-urrection.... BLOOD OF CHRIST Blood Orange Cocktails and Bevvies! Enjoy them as a tetotalling believer in a lemonade, iced tea or coldbrew, or crucify your drink and add some whiskey to that coldbrew or some vodka to that lemaonade, or get a Blood of Christ Mimosa. And from the tomb is our April sammie: THE MONTE CHRIST-O! We've never made a sandwich quite so naughty---our take on a Monte Cristo, this egg battered Texas-toasting God fearing sandwich features raspberry jam, mustard, Nueske's ham and swiss inside a double egg. Absolutely divine. Snag some buttery, chocolatey Stigmata Cookies while they're still on the shelf here.... they're going quick. No, Jesus was not white, so why would these cookies be? And yes, these cookies are worth offending your conservative family members at the Easter table. WE'RE OPEN ALL WEEKEND. Come and join us in the true spirit of the very radical, anti-establishment Jesus this weekend (ie, tearing down oppressive systems for the love of humanity). We're looking to have the busiest day in all of Smack Dab history on Easter--so say a prayer for us and LET'S SUP! xoxo