Here's a great concept - a restaurant where you pay what you can, food is donated,

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

and staff are volunteers. It opened in Minneapolis recently (I'll have to check it out); I hope there are more like this everywhere. https://www.provisioncommunity.org/the-restaurant

[dewsgirl]

1. How very nice.❤

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I remember a few of these opening back in the '70s...

There was a "free store" movement that eventually stopped moving.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Fare Start in downtown Seattle has a similar model (or did when I lived there)

And the staff are homeless people who are getting training to enter the workforce.

[stuffmatters]

4. Jon Von Jovi has opened 3 so far in NJ!

[Mosby]

5. How does it work with rent I wonder.

[Basic LA]

6. Reminded of Clifton's Cafeteria in Downtown L.A.

It opened in the 1930's and never turned away a hungry person -- the story goes -- & people could pay what the could. It's still there, by the way, but I don't think that policy survived.