For Adelaide, working at Sister’s Organic Café is like baking your cake and eating it too.

“I would love to work every day at Sisters,” said Adelaide who works three half-days a week. Her tasks include assisting the chef with recipes, kitchen preparation, washing up, taking good to tables and chatting with regulars.

Daryl, a chef at Sister’s, works with Adelaide regularly. He said he believes his responsibilities extend beyond guiding her around tasks needed in the kitchen.

“It’s more than teaching Adelaide to be a kitchen-hand and waitress. For me it’s showing her how to communicate with people and have work relationships – something she’ll need later down the line.

“When Adelaide is at work, everyone gels together – there’s a lot more consideration. There’s extra effort needed to help her eventually go on to be an independent worker – that’s the big motivation for me.”