Free Panera sandwiches ruining a neighborhood

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Personally, I think Panera should have picked a location closer to the south side to do this. Using a location smack dab in the middle of yuppiehood probably was not the best idea.
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That would bascily be a food pantry. You tell'em on the southside, you can pay or eat for free, you won't see many paying customers. Lot's of hungry customers, just none with any money. :eek:
 
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This is right in my neighborhood. I go there a lot. This whole thing has become very controversial around here. A little background on my hood. It's very white, almost 100% white and pretty affluent and slightly gay. I noticed in the last month or so that the area is getting very black. I say this with all due respect. I'm simply saying it was noticeable living in a white yuppie hood and to start seeing black people everywhere. It took me a while to make the connection to the Panera. Well now, people are pissed. Anyone who owns property is scared shitless they are going to see a drop in their property values. Beggars are not everywhere on the streets. And Panera even started locking the bathroom doors for the first time. This experiment is really interesting and nobody knows what the long term effects will be.

This Panera is one of three in the entire country that has gone to a pay what you want model. You basically order food, they tell you what the fair value of that meal costs and you pay what you can. Some people pay nothing, most pay about what it should cost and some people pay a little more to donate. The character inside this place has definitely changed. Use to be full of young students with their laptops doing homework and now it's starting to resemble a city bus station at 2am. LOL.

Personally, I think Panera should have picked a location closer to the south side to do this. Using a location smack dab in the middle of yuppiehood probably was not the best idea.
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There is an easy way for the community to respond to Panera's attack on it, which is hoiw I would view it. Just have everyone who objects to the store go in there, order stuff and take it for free. They say paying is voluntary. Teach them a lesson about how absurd that is.

This is freakin' Chicago, home of unrestrained capitalism. Panera is insulting the very ethos of the city with its socialist experiment.

Many cities have similar problems brought on by dogooders who bring in food vans to feed the "homeless." Only they do it in areas where the homeless have no business being, like downtown business areas. In effect, they act as a magnet to draw them in. Whether it is by Aulinsky design or just unintended consequences, the result is that they end up making parks unuseable for the people who are paying for them.
 
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