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Panera to Open Another Pay-What-You-Want Cafe, This Time in Portland

Panera to Open Another Pay-What-You-Want Cafe, This Time in Portland
Panera Bread will open its third nonprofit restaurant Monday in Portland where customers can pay what they want for food. Panera opened community cafes last year in Clayton, Mo., and Dearborn, Mich., owned and operated by a nonprofit arm of the national restaurant chain. So far, customers have stepped up in a spirit of generosity.

Panera Bread will open its third nonprofit restaurant Monday in Portland where customers pay what they want for food — using donation boxes, instead of cash registers.

Panera opened community cafes last year in Clayton, Mo., and Dearborn, Mich., owned and operated by the nonprofit arm of the national restaurant chain.

The question was, "Will people step up and help each other or will they take advantage?"

So far, people have stepped up. Panera said about 20% of the visitors to the cafes leave more than the suggested amount, 20% leave less and 60% pay what is suggested.

(READ the AP story at USA Today)

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