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Pay-What-You-Can restaurants seem to be catching a lot of momentum recently especially due to the economic downturn.  What’s better than food at affordable or even free prices?!

Through Panera’s nonprofit 501c3 foundation, you can expect 2 more pay-what-you-can cafes to be opening. So far Panera already has 3 similar cafes located in Clayton, Mo., Portland, Ore., and Dearborn, Mich. which began opening in 2010.

According to the spokeswoman for Panera Bread, Kate Antonacci, their goal is to offer as “normal [a] retail process as possible” with these cafes by offering quality food that’s served with dignity. Sounds like a great start to building a better society and we’re crossing our fingers for one opening in our own backyard!

[via latimes.com]

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Lucia Phan has a Bachelors Degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Food & City Culture and Environmental Economics. She is the founder of Banana Slug Edibles, where she bakes specialty cakes and cupcakes for patients in Orange County & Los Angeles. In her free time she likes to collect recipes and will forever be searching for the best chocolate chip cookie recipe known to man.