[tnlibertarian]

Panera Bread's noble experiment in pay-what-you-want retail has been successful at its first two restaurants in St. Louis and Detroit, taking in about 80% of the retail price of the food they serve.

That's success? Show me a restaurant running a 20% margin. There ain't none. So, even these 'successes' are losing money.

[sheana]

This isn’t all Panera’s restaurants, just a select few. They can write off the losses on their taxes and then jack the prices at the paying restaurants to cover it.
See, it works! lol

[Vigilanteman]

Well, it does prove that socialism goes broke even faster when most of its constituents are smelly hippies than when they are normal people.

[Daffynition]

A restaurant that doesn’t require you to pay *is* a called a *soup kitchen.* in these parts.