Coffee store raises greater than $184K totally free breakfast for SNAP recipients

When Josh White made the choice to open Heretic Coffee Co. in Portland, Oregon, he knew he needed the store to be group centered.

Realizing that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — the federally funded program also known as "food stamps" — might doubtlessly run dry on Nov. 1 as a result of authorities shutdown, it was that very same ethos that compelled the proprietor to supply a free breakfast, together with a breakfast burrito and a espresso, to any buyer that may be in want, beginning subsequent month.