Dine All Day for the Diner

On Thursday, October 30, 2025, Acadiana will gather around the table for Dine for the Diner—a one-day event where local restaurants give back by donating 10% of the day’s proceeds to St. Joseph Diner, a traditional soup kitchen of Catholic Charities of Acadiana.

By joining as a participating Dine for the Diner restaurant, you’ll:

  • Showcase your restaurant as a community-minded partner

  • Attract diners eager to support businesses that give back

  • Help provide more than 5,200 meals served weekly to neighbors facing hunger

Since 1983, St. Joseph Diner has been a place of nourishment and dignity for those experiencing hunger and food insecurity. Together, we can continue that mission—one plate at a time.

Become an official Dine for the Diner restaurant and make every meal count.

Here’s a list of last year’s Dine for the Diner restaurants that pledged to support St. Joseph Diner:

  1. Antoni’s Italian Cafe

  2. BJ’s Pizza House

  3. BJ’s PoBoys and Plate Lunches

  4. Black Cafe

  5. Blanchard’s BBQ

  6. Central Pizza & Bar

  7. Charley G’s

  8. Chris’ Poboys - Robley Drive / Ambassador Caffery

  9. Chris’ Poboys - Pinhook Road

  10. Dean-O’s Pizza

  11. Dean-O’s Pizza South

  12. Fat Pat’s - Carencro

  13. Fat Pat’s - Verot School Road

  14. Fat Pat’s - Westmark

  15. Fezzo’s Seafood Steakhouse and Oyster Bar - I-10 Service Road

  16. Fezzo’s Seafood Steakhouse and Oyster Bar - Ambassador Caffery

  17. Fezzo’s Seafood Steakhouse and Oyster Bar - Crowley location

  18. Hub City Diner

  19. iMonelli

  20. Johnson’s Boucaniere

  21. LaPizzeria Lafayette

  22. Louisiana Crawfish Time - Verot School Road

  23. Marcellos - Kaliste Saloom Road

  24. Mercy Kitchen

  25. Mo’Crawfish N Mowata

  26. Olde Tyme Grocery

  27. Priya’s Indian Food

  28. Reve Coffee Lab - River Ranch

  29. Reve Coffee Roasters - Jefferson Street

  30. Sandra’s Cafe & Health Food Store

  31. Social Southern Table & Bar

  32. Sweet Envie, LLC

  33. Viva La Waffle

St. Joseph Diner is a 100% donor funded program. St. Joseph Diner is serving more of our neighbors than ever and at a higher cost to us. You can help us in a major way by pledging 10% of your proceeds from Dine for the Diner Thursday.

We will publicize your involvement through traditional and social media channels, inviting thousands of our donors, volunteers, supporters, and the community to patronize your restaurant and feel good about it. You are the lifeblood of making Dine for the Diner a success and ensuring critical funds to St. Joseph Diner.

Use the form below to sign up your restaurant:

Tax-deductible contributions can be made to support the work of St. Joseph Diner here.

St. Joseph Diner is a program of Catholic Charities of Acadiana. Catholic Charities of Acadiana cares for the sacred gift of all human life, especially the most vulnerable. Catholic Charities of Acadiana operates eleven programs that serve those currently experiencing homelessness, hunger, and poverty in Acadiana. Since 1973, its programs have represented a response to the Gospel call to carry out the corporal works of mercy: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, offering hospitality to the homeless, caring for the sick, visiting the imprisoned, and burying the dead.