With the recession, there's been a lot of news articles and websites devoted to saving money and eating cheaply. I love it. I'm young and just starting out - I could definitely benefit from budget advice!
The most popular advice: Don't eat out, cook meals at home.
Good advice. But some restaurants are taking a really interesting approach to making dining out more affordable and acceptable: No prices.
At The Java Street Cafe in Kettering, OH, there are no prices. Patrons decide what they want to pay for a dish. You'd think they'd be overrun by jerks wanting food for free, but apparently that's not so. The owner says that people "have to look me in the eye and say that that's what they think is fair." Nice to know that still works!
While researching that cafe, I came across another one: the SAME Cafe. SAME = So All May Eat. It's a nonprofit restaurant. Customers get a little envelope with their meals and they can put whatever they want inside. No need to even look anybody in the eye.
What a neat concept!
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