Panera Bread has shuttered the last of its ideologically driven “pay what you want” restaurants. The socialist-tinged ventures were called “Panera Cares” and the higher-ups have finally figured out that “caring” is not synonymous with “viable business model.” On February 15, the final Panera Cares, located in Boston, will close.
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You know who’s probably suffering from food insecurity? The employees of Panera Cares who are no longer employed and no longer receive paychecks. You can’t buy food if you don’t have a job, and providing jobs is only assured if companies are focused on making money. If Panera had cared more about making money than promoting a constantly refuted ideology, its employees would still be receiving paychecks. Frighteningly, though, a growing segment of the populace seems to be allergic to common-sense economic principles.
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The irony in all this may be that Panera’s marketing department cooked Panera Cares up as a way to ingratiate the money-making side of Panera into the hearts of AOC- and Bernie-loving social justice warriors. Burgeoning socialists can now pay for and then eat their paninis guilt-free, knowing that Panera cares.
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