What Happened to W.O.W. – Worth Our Weight? (Santa Rosa, CA)
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 11 Santa Rosa, California
Current status
As of October 2026, W.O.W. – Worth Our Weight has closed — confirmed via pressdemocrat.com, November 1, 2019.
What the source shows: The Press Democrat reported on 2019-11-01 that chef Evelyn Cheatham's Worth Our Weight cafe had closed roughly a year earlier, around 2018, and a Yelp listing updated 2026-04 continues to mark the location permanently closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 11, Episode 3
- Aired
- Address 1021 Hahman Dr, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Part 1 — Season 11, Episode 3 Aired
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited W.O.W. - Worth Our Weight in Santa Rosa for the episode "Funky Finds," which aired 2011-01-17, spotlighting the cafe's pay-what-you-think-is-fair pricing model. Worth Our Weight was a culinary-apprenticeship cafe at 1021 Hahman Dr. founded by chef Evelyn Cheatham, who trained at-risk teens and young adults in culinary and life skills tuition-free. According to the Press Democrat, Cheatham died in 2019 at age 66, and the cafe had already closed roughly a year earlier, around 2018. A Yelp business listing, updated 2026-04, continues to mark Worth Our Weight as permanently closed, with no indication of a successor operating at the Hahman Drive address.
Part 2 — Season 21, Episode 15 Aired
Worth Our Weight operated as a nonprofit restaurant and culinary-training program in Santa Rosa, California, where at-risk and homeless youth prepared breakfast and lunch plates under a pay-what-you-think-is-fair pricing model, according to Sonoma Magazine. The program offered participants tuition-free culinary instruction alongside real kitchen and front-of-house experience at its Hahman Drive location. A Yelp business page, last updated 2026-04, is marked permanently closed, listing the restaurant's address and phone number with no indication of a reopening, according to Yelp. No current website or 2026 social-media activity for the business was found during this check. The restaurant's Food Network and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives directory profiles remain online as historical listings but do not reflect the closure, according to those sites.
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Sources we checked
- pressdemocrat.com https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2019/11/01/celebrated-chef-champion-of-at-risk-youth-evelyn-cheatham-dies-at-66/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/worth-our-weight-santa-rosa
- sonomamag.com https://www.sonomamag.com/worth-our-weight/
- foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/ca/santa-rosa/wow-worth-our-weight-restaurant
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Record ddd-0399 · checked by Cal Marchetti.