Here is yet another innovative way to get good food into people’s bellies from the Your Hub blog:
The Comfort Café is Denver’s newest community kitchen-a not-for-profit restaurant with a not-so-regular vision. Instead of a set menu with fixed prices, The Comfort Café’s menu changes daily and pricing is flexible. You select the items you want to eat, choose your portion size, and pay a fair price (or a little more if able) for your meal- with money, time or both. More…
From USA Today here is another group working on not for profit restaurants:
As the first crowd of customers filed into Panera’s nonprofit restaurant here, only the honor system kept them from taking all the food they wanted for free.Ronald Shaich, Panera’s chairman, admitted as he watched them line up that he had no idea if his experiment would work. The idea for Panera’s first nonprofit restaurant was to open an eatery where people paid what they could. The richer could pay full price — or extra. The poorer could get a cheap or even free meal.
A month later, the verdict is in: It turns out people are basically good.
Panera, which operates 1,400 franchised and corporate-owned bakery-cafes across the country, plans to expand the nonprofit model around the nation, opening two more locations within months. More…
