The pay-what-you-can Panera Cares cafe in Portland’s Hollywood district takes in considerably less money than the other two Cares cafes in Detroit and St. Louis.
The pay-what-you-can Panera Cares cafe in Portland’s Hollywood district takes in considerably less money than the other two Cares cafes in Detroit and St. Louis.
In Portland, the Panera Cares café has taken in about 60 percent of retail, [compared to Detroit and St. Louis’ 80 percent]. It’s losing money. And the premise of Panera Cares is that the cafes will stay open as long as they can pay their way. If they can’t, they will be closed.
[Founder and board chairman Ron] Shaich said a number of down-and-out visitors to the Hollywood café had an attitude that he calls “a sense of entitlement” that the homeless and disadvantaged didn’t appear to have in other cities.
Read more at The Portland Tribune.
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