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Former Obama chef won the lottery and decided to open a restaurant for the homeless

Not every lottery winner spends his money on fashionable cars and houses.

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Many consider the chef Roberto Mendoza lucky. But after winning a six-figure win in the lottery, he will pay for his happiness in advance.

The chef, originally from Salvador, cooked for former presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and members of the international royal family. Most recently, he even prepared for President Donald Trump.

While working as a chef at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, he attended the Academy Awards and often hosted celebrity parties. After moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, Mendos continued his culinary experience as a chef, ran his own restaurant for a time, and now works for Sysco Foods Service.

Despite his numerous awards, Mendoz said that he had never won anything before. But during his mother’s recent visit to the United States, she prophesied her son winning the lottery, citing her intuition.

Mendos, not a lottery fan, nonetheless went to the local 7-Eleven and bought a lottery ticket. He began to erase the protective strip and saw that the numbers indicate the highest possible prize per game: 250 000 dollars.

Despite his success today, Mendoza’s life was full of difficulties.

When he was a teenager and lived in El Salvador, he almost starved.

“I know what it’s like to be hungry. When I was 14 or 15 years old, I went to bed hungry. “I told myself that at least I had a glass of water that I could drink,” the chef recalls. “But when I approached the tap, I only heard the hiss of air. They cut off the water in my country. I cried and promised myself that when I grew up, I would do everything in my power so that no one would go hungry again.”

A few years after that night, Mendoza was kidnapped for two months. The Salvation Army found him and sent him to Canada for safety. From Canada, he went to California, where he learned English and Hebrew (he was already fluent in Spanish and French) and decided to go to a school of culinary art.

Today, Mendoza cooks meals for the homeless in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2014, he even started his own Chef's Kitchen program to help raise money and donations for a village in the Dominican Republic that he frequently visits.

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