A table is being set. Yours, perhaps.
A Place at the Table
Every day across our four outlets, thirty-one meals are quietly set aside. No applications, no proof of income, no fuss. Six rotating programmes across the year — for the people who built this island, the ones bringing the next generation home, and the ones who answer when we need them.
31/day
free meals, served on the honour system. A 25% companion discount means whoever joins you eats well too. A community table is meant to be shared.
The year, at a glance
Each programme runs for two months at a time. The rotation lands the same way every year, so there's always a return.
Jan
Pioneer Uncles
Feb
Pioneer Aunties
Mar
The First Year
Apr
Healthcare Heroes
May
Those Who Serve
Jun
A Seat for Everyone
Jul
Pioneer Uncles
Aug
Pioneer Aunties
Sep
The First Year
Oct
Healthcare Heroes
Nov
Those Who Serve
Dec
A Seat for Everyone
This monthPioneer Uncles — Men born 1949 or earlier · aged 70+.
The Six
This month
January & July
Men born 1949 or earlier · aged 70+
For the men who built the country we live in. The cooking, the carrying, the rebuilding — we owe them more than a meal, but a meal is a start.
NRIC at the host stand. That's the whole process.
February & August
Women aged 70 and above
For the women who held the line — kitchens, classrooms, factories, families. The mothers and grandmothers of modern Singapore.
NRIC at the host stand. Bring a friend.
March & September
New mothers · babies under 12 months
Sleep is rare, hands are full, and a hot meal someone else made is not a small thing. Babies under one are very welcome.
Birth certificate (or a photo of it) — that's all we need.
April & October
MOH-recognised healthcare staff
For nurses, doctors, allied health, support staff — anyone working under an MOH-recognised institution. Long shifts deserve a long lunch.
MOH staff ID at the host stand.
May & November
SAF · Police · Civil Defence · ICA · CNB
For our SAF servicemen and women, SPF officers, SCDF, ICA, and CNB. Active or in uniform. The job doesn't stop for lunch — but lunch can stop, just for a bit.
Service ID, in or out of uniform.
June & December
Persons with disabilities and their carers
Every CALI outlet is wheelchair-friendly; we'll pull tables together, dim what needs dimming, raise what needs raising. Ask for what you need.
SG Enable card at the host stand.
A meal becomes a meal when someone else is at the table.
CALI · Community
The Honour System
One ID at the host stand. We won't ask why, won't make a list, won't put you on a database, won't post your photo. The meal is the meal. You are the guest.
We chose the honour system on purpose. The cost of being occasionally taken advantage of is much smaller than the cost of making someone who needs a meal feel like they have to beg for it.
All four CALI outlets participate
31 Rochester Drive #01-01/02, Singapore 138637
2 Finlayson Green, Level 2, Singapore 049247
2 Finlayson Green, Level 1, Singapore 049247
181 Kitchener Road (Novotel), Singapore 208533
How it works
01
Pick the CALI nearest you. No booking required, but you're welcome to call ahead. First seat, first served.
02
NRIC, MOH ID, service ID, birth certificate, or SG Enable card — depending on the programme of the month. One quick check at the host stand.
03
A full main from the day's menu. Whoever you bring eats at 25% off. The meal is on us.
Press & Media
Singapore has long had remarkable free-meal programmes — Willing Hearts, Free Food For All, Krsna's, the Sikh and Buddhist temples — all charities, NGOs, or religious institutions. What CALI has launched is different:
the first commercial fine-casual restaurant group in Singapore to operate a structured, restaurant-funded community programme at scale.
11,315 complimentary meals a year, served on the honour system, with rotating beneficiary cohorts — all funded from operations, not donations.
“A restaurant is, at its heart, a place where people sit down together. Once a year, every uncle, every auntie, every nurse, every new mother, every officer, every neighbour with a different way of moving through the world — should know there's a seat with their name on it. Not as charity. As welcome.”
At a glance
Press & media inquiries: connect@njgroup.sg·+65 9327 3666
Help us reach the table
An uncle who never asks for help. A new mother who hasn't slept. A nurse coming off a fourteen-hour shift. Forward this. The hardest part of a community programme isn't the meals — it's making sure the right people hear about it.
If this is your month —
Walk in any time. If you'd like the comfort of knowing a table's held, reserve in thirty seconds.
Talk to Aria