Krackers Katering is an agency-sponsored entrepreneurial business that operates under the auspices of Causeway Work Centre. It began in 1999 as a community economic development initiative, its primary purpose is to employ persons with severe and persistent mental illness to develop the skills and confidence necessary to break the cycle of isolation, poverty and unemployment and build independent, self-supporting futures. Krackers provides training opportunities, as well as full-time, part-time, and casual paid employment. It demonstrates that people with mental illness can be productive, contributing members of the community. 

Krackers offers a full catering service for any social occasion: luncheons, dinners, meetings, presentations, parties, weddings or funerals. They are able to handle large or small events, whether governmental, private or corporate.

Krackers Katering currently receives funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the United Way of Ottawa. Krackers currently employs 27 persons: three full-time, five part-time and 19 casual employees who are hired on an as-needed basis. 

For more information including menus and pricing, visit: www.krackerskatering.com