This crowd funding project looks to employ homeless vets, teens and women. To make them a part of the business which is to re create the classic burger joint that was so popular along route 66 and to tackle the homeless issue, that by the way is not going anywhere because we choose to ignore it, By hiring and training willing and able and work ready homeless.. To restore and renew the spirit and hopes of people who have been labeled, forgotten and left behind as someone else's problem, this a  a business plan that addresses the true nature of putting people to work WHO WANT TO WORK. This will not be a feel good , handout, " oh you poor people" venture. This will be a very bottom line business but it will never forget or see the employees as a necessary evil but as an asset. This will the first living wage , the first burger joint in the Midwest if not in the United States, for minimum wage, simply put means "what is the LEAST amount of money i can pay you because if the law said I could pay you a dollar.. I would." A business that's is not built on buzz words, trends, over priced consultant fees, It will built on the foundations of community, sense of duty, conversation,call to action. Mac's Burger Shack..Employing and empowering the homeless one burger at a time.