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Re: Jon Bon Jovi opens "Pay What You Can" Restaurant
Stars often give back. But rocker Jon Bon Jovi has come up with an innovative twist.
He and his wife, Dorothea, have opened The JBJ Soul Kitchen, a "pay-what-you-can" restaurant in Red Bank, N.J.
The JBJ Soul Kitchen began serving meals in 2009, utilizing two different pilot locations and assessing the patrons' needs and response to the model, before renovating an old 1,100-square-foot auto-body shop as the Kitchen's new, permanent location.
Entrees are upscale, including cornmeal crusted catfish with red beans and rice, grilled chicken breast with homemade basil mayo and rice pilaf, and grilled salmon with soul seasonings, sweet potato mash and sauteed greens, reports AP.
The concept: To provide gourmet-quality meals to the hungry while enabling them to volunteer on community projects in return. It's a soup kitchen, but not a typical one.
Bon Jovi explained to AP before the opening Wednesday that he hopes patrons will come and eat, but give something in return. Paying customers are encouraged to leave whatever they want in the envelopes on each table, where the menus never list a price.
"If you can't afford to eat, you can bus tables, you can wait tables, you can work in the kitchen as a dishwasher or sous chef," he said. Or you can volunteer elsewhere and earn a certificate good for a meal at The Soul Kitchen. "If you come in and say, 'I'm hungry,' we'll feed you," Bon Jovi told AP. "But we're going to need you to do something. It's very important to what we're trying to achieve."
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Re: Jon Bon Jovi opens "Pay What You Can" Restaurant
Very cool, what a good idea. Good for him.
Re: Jon Bon Jovi opens "Pay What You Can" Restaurant
Yeah, really, really cool of him to do this. And all this time I've been thinking that when Jim Morrison sang about spending a night in a girls soul kitchen, that he meant her pussy. I'll be damned, it's a real place 
Entrees are upscale, including cornmeal crusted catfish with red beans and rice, grilled chicken breast with homemade basil mayo and rice pilaf, and grilled salmon with soul seasonings, sweet potato mash and sauteed greens
Oh, man, I'd bus some tables for that...
Re: Jon Bon Jovi opens "Pay What You Can" Restaurant
It was mentioned in his DVD last year, the prototype restaurant has been open since at least 2010. Good to see that the model works.
I really like the idea of a scraggy bum sitting at a fancy candlelight table eating caviar.
I'd say that this experience could re-program a homeless guys entire psychology "If I do some work, I can get these rewards".
Re: Jon Bon Jovi opens "Pay What You Can" Restaurant
That's why Obama's job plan was ingenious too. Basically it would get rid of regular Unemployment as we know it, and you would get Unemployment on a "working audition" format where you'd be paid while working, not while not-working.
But of course Republicans buried it because "it raised dem der taxes!"
