I’m very glad to see this article reach the homepage of Hacker News. I met Joe DeLoss while I was studying at Ohio State and he was working at Lutheran Social

I’m very glad to see this article reach the homepage of Hacker News. I met Joe DeLoss while I was studying at Ohio State and he was working at Lutheran Social Services (mentioned in the article). He is the real deal as a social entrepreneur. He has been studying and working on the problem of employing the homeless and those with criminal records for well over a decade now. This was not an overnight success but took many years of tweaking his approach and optimizing between all his goals (a viable business model that could provide employment for the disenfranchised). With Hot Chicken Takeover, he finally found the right business that had a product that had a wide appeal and could be provided by those he wanted to help. His career has been inspiring to follow and made him a hit in the Columbus, OH community.