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Good Food, Good Deeds Served All Day at Marguerite's Cafe

Marguerite Allison provides more than a good meal at her Dunedin restaurant and catering business. She serves up heaping helping of support for people rebuilding their lives.

Marguerite Allison is known for her caring, but straight-forward, no-nonsense approach to life. It's become the hallmark of how Allison runs Marguerite’s Cafe & Catering and how she has come to embrace her employees. She seems perfectly equipped for what has become a calling: helping people touched by alcohol or drug addiction to rebuild clean, sober lives. Allison mixes a structured and supportive working environment with a pinch of tough love. It's a combination in which her employees thrive. “It’s not something I advertise, but yes God sends me people,” Allison humbly reveals.  Allison knows from experience that to be successful you have to work hard. The single mother who raised six kids, including three step children and one foster …

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