{"id":575421,"date":"2010-05-19T19:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/05\/19\/lets-help-panera-bread-take-corporate-social-responsibility-to-a-new-level\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T19:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:34:12","slug":"panera-bread-takes-corporate-social-responsibility-to-a-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575421","title":{"rendered":"Panera Bread Takes Corporate Social Responsibility to a New Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/05\/Panera-Bread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1968\" title=\"Panera Bread\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/05\/Panera-Bread.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Panera Bread opened its first non-profit cafe with the motto: <em>Take what you need; leave your fair share.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I was surprised to read about Panera Bread&#8217;s new cafe in St. Louis dubbed the St. Louis Bread Company Cares Cafe. The concept is simple yet groundbreaking&#8230; take whatever you want to eat or drink and instead of paying a cashier, drop whatever you can afford into a donation box. And if you don&#8217;t have any money, you can donate your time. Crazy concept, I know.<\/p>\n<p>According to a great article in <a title=\"Non-profit Panera Cafe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/2010-05-18-panerabread18_ST_N.htm\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>, Ron Shaich, who stepped down as Panera&#8217;s CEO last week, is &#8220;trying to find out what human nature is all about&#8221; and is banking on our humanity. He said he&#8217;s dreamed about doing something like this for years. So the question is will Panera&#8217;s social experiment prove that goodness does exist in the human condition or that we are fundamentally selfish creatures at heart?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/05\/19\/lets-help-panera-bread-take-corporate-social-responsibility-to-a-new-level\/#more-1967\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inspiredeconomist\/com\/~4\/BJHq22XvLbo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panera Bread opened its first non-profit cafe with the motto: Take what you need; leave your fair share. I was surprised to read about Panera Bread&#8217;s new cafe in St. Louis dubbed the St. Louis Bread Company Cares Cafe. The concept is simple yet groundbreaking&#8230; take whatever you want to eat or drink and instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}