Panera Bread's Socialist "Pay What You Want"

[Leo123]

A Socialist experiment that failed miserably.

"Panera Bread has shuttered the last of its ideologically driven "pay what you want" restaurants. The socialist-tinged ventures were called "Panera Cares" and the higher-ups have finally figured out that "caring" is not synonymous with "viable business model." On February 15, the final Panera Cares, located in Boston, will close."

Based on a stupid Socialist slogan "Food insecurity." A vaguely defined leftist, progressive, socialist, communist, neo-marxist 'word salad.'

Well, words mean something and, in this case....

"Food insecurity? While having a pretty good idea of what the term means, I still looked it up. According to Feeding Texas, "Food insecurity offers an accepted method for measuring food deprivation."

"You know who's probably suffering from food insecurity? The employees of Panera Cares who are no longer employed and no longer receive paychecks."

Panera Bread's Socialist 'Pay What You Want' Experiment Fails Miserably

 

[Penelope]

I'm sure the elites thought free meal. LInk?

Are you sure this is not why. He made billions.

Who bought Panera Bread Company?
Panera Bread bought by owner of Krispy Kreme for $7B. ST. LOUIS - Panera Bread is being acquired by Europe's JAB Holding Co. for more than $7 billion.Apr 5, 2017

 

[Penelope]

JAB Holding Company - Wikipedia

Jab Holding is a German company and private, and are out to make money.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

A Socialist experiment that failed miserably.

"Panera Bread has shuttered the last of its ideologically driven "pay what you want" restaurants. The socialist-tinged ventures were called "Panera Cares" and the higher-ups have finally figured out that "caring" is not synonymous with "viable business model." On February 15, the final Panera Cares, located in Boston, will close."

Based on a stupid Socialist slogan "Food insecurity." A vaguely defined leftist, progressive, socialist, communist, neo-marxist 'word salad.'

Well, words mean something and, in this case....

"Food insecurity? While having a pretty good idea of what the term means, I still looked it up. According to Feeding Texas, "Food insecurity offers an accepted method for measuring food deprivation."

"You know who's probably suffering from food insecurity? The employees of Panera Cares who are no longer employed and no longer receive paychecks."

Panera Bread's Socialist 'Pay What You Want' Experiment Fails Miserably

It is impossible for a private company to have a socialist experiment or to do a preform a socialist act.

Private Companies and socialism are mutually exclusive.

The amount of ignorance on what Socialism is, and is not is just astounding.

 

[Penelope]

This is why the plan didn't work out. Also this is why we need the government to make the billionaires and multi millionaires to pay more. When you depend on the goodness of people it doesn' t work. Money wins out.
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In 2010, Panera’s nonprofit arm launched a new experiment: It opened a cafe in St. Louis that looked exactly like the company’s other restaurants, but customers could pay what they wanted for the items on the menu, or not pay at all. Ron Shaich, Panera’s founder and CEO at the time, had volunteered at food banks and wanted to offer a better experience for people who were struggling to eat. The new nonprofit restaurant, called Panera Cares, was designed to sustain itself by nudging middle-class consumers to pay a little extra for their meals.

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In Yelp reviews of the cafes, the researchers saw that many consumers didn’t want to eat next to homeless people, and complained about the atmosphere. People who were food insecure also didn’t like it. Though the cafes were intended to provide dignity–people could pay as little as they could afford and weren’t supposed to be questioned about it or made to feel like lesser customers–it didn’t work that way in practice. The company asked customers to limit themselves to one discounted meal a week or to volunteer for an hour at the cafe to make up for a free meal. “We are not designed to be a permanent solution for those facing food insecurity,” the company wrote, but that could make things complicated for people who wanted to take advantage of the service.

One reviewer wrote:

I took my mother into Panera Cares today because she just moved to town and is on a very low fixed income. When the total suggested price was given my mother put the money she could afford into the box. The cashier watched her and said “we can do a discount once but if you come back this week you’ll have to pay full price. We only do a discount once a week here.” This was said with others behind us and very loudly. That is not posted anywhere in the store. My mother stood mortified and near tears as we walked away and waited.

Customers who were used to eating at other Panera restaurants were often confused when they entered; the nonprofit restaurants looked the same, apart from “Cares” in the logo. “Your customer is coming through the door with a set of expectations about what the service encounter is going to be like, and if those expectations are sort of thrown on their head the minute that you walk in, then it’s going to cause all this confusion and discomfort,” says Dobscha. “So that puts people in a less likely position to do good, which is what conscious capitalism assumes.”

Why Panera’s experiment with pay-what-you-want dining failed

 

[blastoff]

Okay, it failed miserably. But think how great it made Mr. Panera feel doing it.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

It is impossible for a private company to have a socialist experiment or to do a preform a socialist act.

Private Companies and socialism are mutually exclusive.

The amount of ignorance on what Socialism is, and is not is just astounding

Sorry, they can. Any group of humans can practice the concept, "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

Yes I know the dictionary definition of Socialism and communism. But here we are talking about socialist PRINCIPLES being employed by a group of individuals.