Ideas don’t change the world. People do.

We’re All Day Buffet, and we’re building a new business model based on the power of investment in people. We invest in the creative misfits and entrepreneurs who believe that business is founded on both purpose and profit.  We believe that investing in talent and passion first will lead to the best ideas and profits, and the place to start a successful business is with the people who will be running it.

How is this different?  Like a record label (minus the evil), we find super-smart people and give them the resources, connections and collaborative structure they need to turn their ideas into successes.  When they join the All Day Buffet family, we educate them as to what’s possible when passion and potential collide.  Then, we match them with the best connections to help hone their goals, work hands-on with them to build their ideas, and give them the confidence, funding and network to launch their purpose-driven ventures.

In other words, we remove the roadblocks that keep the best and brightest from executing their world changing ideas. We will be an alternative to traditional venture funds, and offer a new framework for creative entrepreneurs to buck the status quo and create lasting social change.

Our passion lies in creating a billion dollar industry around incubating innovation.  Our priorities aren’t rooted in providing seed investments, legal services, or office space like traditional incubators (but yes, we do that too). Our method revolves around internal collaboration.  We develop our own ideas that result in new ventures.  And our secret sauce lies in a cross-disciplinary culture that cultivates rampant idea generation, productivity, and happiness. It’s that simple.  We put talented people in a successful environment that allows them to launch ventures that serve a real purpose.

In short, All Day Buffet is an incubator for social innovation.  We develop, connect, and launch purpose-driven ventures.

Projects

Our first project, Cause for Drinks, provided a place for the social and creative community to come together. A happy hour where $2 from every drink went to selected charities, we’ve now hosted them in over a dozen cities from New York to New Orleans, connected over 2,000 individuals, and raised close to $10,000 for charities like the New Orleans Kid Camera Project and Burma Lawyer’s Association.

We’ve also consulted with Education Through Music on their “School of Rock” fundraiser concert, created an Internet Week event with Behance, “Make Good Ideas Happen”, and partnered with GOOD Magazine to host “New Orleans is Forever GOOD.” We’ve also been recognized as semi-finalists for The Case Foundation “Make It Your Own” Awards and for the RGK Center “Social Innovation Competition.

We’ve created the New Orleans 100, which was a worldwide initiative that highlighted and encouraged discussion among millions about 100 of the most innovative and world-changing ideas to take root in the city since Katrina.

Ventures

Our first venture includes The Feast: Social Innovation Conference which gathers the world’s leading creative mavericks, entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, radicals, and innovators together to inspire action to change the world.