Don’t be too harsh on them. Communism implies people forced to donate to the “common good”. On the other hand, Panera is free to do whatever it wants, including throw money from the rooftops.
It’s an interesting experiment.
During the summer months, lots of folks here, put a simple table with their excess produce out for sale on the *honor* system. Depending on the neighborhood, sometimes it doesn’t work.
It seems as if their idea was undermined by some telling the homeless, destitute there were freebees. “It can’t serve as a shelter and we can’t have community organizations sending everybody down.”