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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 06:42 AM Mar 2013

Panera pay-what-you-want chili introduced in St. Louis stores

Panera is mostly known for its bread bowls, but the café chain is making another name for itself in the arena of hunger awareness.

On Wednesday, the St. Louis-based company introduced a ‘pay-what-you-want’ turkey chili entree on its menus in the 48 locations in its hometown, where it operates as “St. Louis Bread Co.”

Dubbed “The Meal of Shared Responsibility,” the chili comes in a bread bowl and is served with chips, a baguette, or an apple on the side. Suggested retail price is $5.98, but customers can pay more, or less, or even nothing. The idea, as with other pay-what-you-can models, is that those ponying up more cash will pick up the tab for those who can’t afford to pay full price, or anything.

The launch puts a corporate face on the idea of community cafés and the gift economy, which heretofore has been the domain of smaller, locally run organizations.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/0327/Panera-pay-what-you-want-chili-introduced-in-St.-Louis-stores?nav=91-csm_category-topStories

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Panera pay-what-you-want chili introduced in St. Louis stores (Original Post) Sherman A1 Mar 2013 OP
K&R. Very cool. Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #1
Very cool pintobean Mar 2013 #2
That's...splutter, splutter....Socialism!!!!!! dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #3
The Panera on Diversey near Clark in Chicago has been that way for a while. marmar Mar 2013 #4
ohhhhhhhh I used to live @ 559 W Surf elehhhhna Mar 2013 #5
great idea Liberal_in_LA Mar 2013 #6
I really like this idea. Apophis Mar 2013 #7
I would kick in some quid nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #8
 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
1. K&R. Very cool.
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 06:52 AM
Mar 2013

Honestly, I've never been a fan of their food as I find it bland and over-priced, but this is going to make me stop in at least occasionally.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. That's...splutter, splutter....Socialism!!!!!!
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 02:05 PM
Mar 2013

Can hardly wait for Faux heads to explode........
and esp. for Rinse Plurbis or whatever his name is, to stutter out some comment.

 

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)
5. ohhhhhhhh I used to live @ 559 W Surf
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 02:46 PM
Mar 2013

long,long ago. Top floor. Great apartment!!!

LOVED that neighborhood

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