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Blog /// Eating for Understanding
August 9, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, maybe that’s also the most direct route to hearts and minds. That’s the philosophy underlying a new restaurant in Pittsburgh. Conflict Kitchen, a takeout-style storefront that serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict, rotates its identity every four months to educate diners.Tags: goodwill, restaurants, food, conflict
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Blog /// Success for the Honor System
July 21, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
This just in: People are basically good. At least according to an experiment conducted by Panera, which operates 1,400 franchised and corporate-owned bakery-cafes across the country. Since we called attention to a New York Times article on June 4th about the first pay-what-you-wish Panera – in suburban St. Louis – the company has decided to expand the honor bar concept to locations around the country based on results from the vanguard café.Tags: goodwill, food, charity, restaurants
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Blog /// A Restaurant Tries The Honor System
June 4, 2010 by Kathy McManus
“Take what you need, leave your fair share.” That’s the new policy at a Panera Bread café in suburban St. Louis, where diners are asked to pay what they want for their food, leaving the money in a donation box—and leaving some wondering if a restaurant can successfully serve up a side order of responsibility.Tags: charity, food, restaurants
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Blog /// Off the Menu: Toys and Fast Food
May 7, 2010 by Kathy McManus
“A sad day for Happy Meals” is how The LA Times described a new ordinance in California’s Silicon Valley, which outlaws giving away free toys with high sugar, salt, and fat meals aimed at children. The ban will take effect in 90 days if the fast-food industry fails to “come up with a voluntary program for improving the nutritional value of children’s meals,” reports Sharon Bernstein.Tags: food, nutrition, california, law, toys, restaurants, parenting
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Blog /// Should Restaurants be Graded for Cleanliness?
April 21, 2010 by Kathy McManus
Writing in The New York Times’ Diner’s Journal blog, Glenn Collins reports on a new law requiring the city’s restaurants to “prominently” post city Board of Health-generated cleanliness grades in their windows—an “A” for a top score, a “B” for “a less sanitary but still passing rating,” and a yellow, failing “C”. “The grade in the window will give you a sense of how clean the kitchen is,” health commissioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley said. “And it will give every restaurant operator an incentive to maintain safe, sanitary conditions.”Tags: food, restaurants, safety, law
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