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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 cant 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
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)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.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)I love "Breadco's" turkey chili.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Can hardly wait for Faux heads to explode........
and esp. for Rinse Plurbis or whatever his name is, to stutter out some comment.
marmar
(76,982 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)long,long ago. Top floor. Great apartment!!!
LOVED that neighborhood
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Apophis
(1,407 posts)Good on Panera.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Mind you, not order for myself...food allergy