In Savannah, GA in 1989, two young brothers were discovered late one night in the kitchen of their housing project's community center.  The older brother had broken into the kitchen to feed himself and his younger brother.

In response to this glaring example of child hunger, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia started the first Kids Cafe program to ensure children in the community had an evening meal.   In 1993, Feeding America launched the national Kids Cafe program which now spans over 1600 sites nationwide.

The first local Kids Cafe program was started in June 2006 at the Boys & Girls Club of Sandusky through a generous grant from ConAgra's Feeding Children Better Foundation. 

Kids Cafe programs provide free meals and snacks to low-income children through a variety of existing community locations where children congregate such as Boys and Girls Clubs, churches or public schools. In addition to providing hot meals to hungry kids, some Kids Cafe programs also offer a safe place, where under the supervision of trustworthy staff, a child can get involved in educational, recreational and social activities that draw on existing community programs and often include family members.