let's serve hope, nashville
Big Table launched in Nashville in the summer of 2021. Nashville boasts about 350 hotels and 4000 restaurants. The Hospitality and Food Service Industry is the second largest employment sector in Davidson County, only behind healthcare. The average cost of living for a Single Parent with One Child is $78,616 and yet the average Industry pay for a full-time employee is $33,750 (Source: MIT Wage Calculator).
Big Table comes alongside these hardworking people when they experience a temporary setback to offer support, encouragement, and hope. Caring for them strategically will impact the whole community.
We have so much work to do to care for Nashville industry workers.
Won't you join us?
NASHVILLE CARE AREA
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Someone Who Keeps Showing Up
God always provides. It may not be more or how I want it, but He will provide. And He used Big Table to do it.
Tyler loves being a chef, but when he came to Big Table, he was navigating one crisis after another—unstable housing, transportation problems, legal trouble, and deep personal loss. After 12 years of marriage, his wife left, and soon after, he lost his father-in-law. With so much grief and uncertainty piling up, Tyler found himself cycling through temporary housing, unsafe situations, and even sleeping in his car. Transportation struggles led to missed opportunities and job loss, adding even more instability.
Through it all, Big Table has stayed. Chris has walked alongside Tyler through late-night calls, arrests, job transitions, grief, and transportation crises—offering rides, towing assistance, practical help with food and other basic needs, and compassionate coaching and accountability.
Today, Tyler is working again, reconnecting with his sense of purpose, and beginning to see his own capacity for change. His housing and transportation remain uncertain, but he is taking small steps forward.
Sometimes, hope begins with simply knowing you don’t have to walk through the hard things alone. And Tyler knows he has his “big brother Chris” in his corner.
let’s do this. . . together
Join our grassroots Big Table Care Movement by simply bringing hope to those in need by intentionally caring for restaurant and hospitality workers in your everyday life. It could be as simple as giving out Unexpected 20s.
You’ll find lots of other big ideas on How to Care While Eating and Sleeping HERE.
unexpected 20 envelopes
Want to get involved right now? Try sharing an Unexpected 20®! This is a great place for individuals and small groups to start partnering with Big Table. Big Table offers small envelopes that you fill with $20 bills and give out when in a restaurant or hotel as a gift - not a tip. Small envelope. Big Impact.
Learn more and join the mission to care for those most in need in your community. And be sure to add your U20 experience to our Hope Map to encourage others to do the same!
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Phone
(615) 988-0868
Mailing Address
PO Box 22656
Nashville, TN 37202
Office Location
631 2nd Avenue South, Suite A
Nashville, TN 37210
