“I owned Better Life Productions and produced life coaching events for women [looking] for a better life,” said Lisa about her life pre-Kindness Café. “I also had individual coaching clients.”

In a matter of time, Metwaly began the kindness campaign at the Q, and shortly after, the restaurant was renamed The Q Kindness Café.

Today, the Q Kindness Café continues to keep customers coming in and out with smiles on their faces. The café has even eliminated the Monday blues.

“Now I hear ‘Happy Monday!’” says Metwaly. “We don’t have a lot of grumpy customers [because] they experience kindness everywhere. It’s in the way we cook, serve, and [our] whole environment.”

There are kindness quotes in a basket outside the restaurant and in a jar inside of the restaurant. One of the most interesting ways the café keeps the kindness going is through the “Big Wheel of Kindness” located at the register.

“What ever you land on is what you buy someone else,” explained Lisa. “We wait to surprise someone later in the day when they come to purchase that item and tell them it’s a random act of kindness. We ask that someday they might come back and spin the wheel themselves as a random act of kindness for someone else.”

While experiencing the kindness at the restaurant is an excellent experience, the people at Q Kindness do not want the kindness to stop there. They encourage people to join their efforts and start a “Kindness Gang” in the places they come from. Here’s how to do it:

1. Each one connect with one another (it could be a friend, family, co-worker, or someone else)
2. Do one kind act (Ideas are everywhere at www.Qkindness.com and at the restaurant)
3. Invite others
4. Repeat

“The goal is to have seven people in your Kindness Gang doing seven kind acts in seven days,” said Metwaly. “Kindness week [the first week of each month in St. Paul] is the name of our Facebook group. We invite all to join and share their experiences.” The purpose of their Facebook group is to promote global kindness (World Kindness Week is officially November 10-16^th), every month.

To learn more about the Q Kindness Café and what they have to offer, visit their website at www.qkindness.com