Website review: Springwise: Pay-what-you-want resta...
dgirlp discovered this in Activism
•34 reviews since Nov 21, 2007
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dgirlp discovered 8 months ago- Located on the Liechtensteinstraße, Der Wiener Deewan serves five different Pakistani curries daily, three of which are vegetarian. Prices for drinks are fixed, but customers decide how much they'd like to pay for the food. Most pony up a fair price, and the restaurant doesn't seem to suffer from its unusual pricing plan. A bit of research shows that Der Wiener Deewan isn't the only restaurant to take a laissez-faire approach to prices: Melbourne's Lentil As Anything also lets customers pay what they can afford or what they think the meal was worth. The business now runs three locations in Melbourne and provides space for artists and writers. The One World Café in Salt Lake City and the SAME Café (So All Might Eat) in Denver operate on a similar basis, and also let customers specify portion sizes (which isn't a bad idea for any restaurant). While a few customers might take advantage of a restaurant's altruistic motives, most are happy to shell out a little extra to cover free meals for those who can't afford to pay. Could be just the thing for restaurateurs looking for a way to combine social entrepreneurship with a love of cooking.
- harrystottle rated 5 months ago
- Could we actually make Free Market Capitalism Humane?
What with mainstream bands allowing "buyers" to pay what they like for their albums, and restaurants allowing their diners to pay what they think the meal is worth, what we're seeing is the birth pangs of a new capitalist paradigm - where we trust the consumer to recognise and reward merit. Will it catch on? I hope so.
It dovetails nicely with a proposal I'm working on, which is to improve the free-market economic model by insisting on complete disclosure. Wot that mean?
It means when you buy a bag of coffee beans, or a bottle of milk, or whatever, you can see - at a glance - what it cost to produce, to distribute, to package, to market and retail etc. You can see what share the producer gets from the price, what goes to the distributor and what profit the retailer is left with after all that attribution. You can see what carbon (or other environmental) cost is incurred and, of course, you can still see all the standard nutritional and safety data etc.
All this data will either be displayed where possible, on the packaging, or at least the shelving. If that's not practical it must at least display a web address where we can browse the info at our leisure and/or a bluetooth (or equivalent) download we can import to our mobile phones.
The point? To provide what the economists call "perfect information" which is what they claim the consumers and producers need in order to run a perfect free market. Trouble is, up to now, their vision of what constitutes "perfect information" has been decidedly limited and one sided. The producers and retailers always know about our side of the equation but the only economic data they let us in on is the price.
But price is not enough information for the modern intelligent consumer to base their decisions upon. I (and, I'm sure, millions of other consumers) want to know who exactly is getting the benefit of my purchase. For example, I want to know that no workers or producers are being exploited on my behalf. For another example, all other factors being equal, I will choose the product with least carbon cost. And so on. Put these two ideas together - Consumer voluntary pricing and Perfect Information and we have no less than a revolution within capitalism itself.
I think it might indeed even make Capitalism humane.
(this is the first time I've attempted to stumble my own stumble blog but I'd really appreciate some feedback. Am I the only one who thinks this would be a good idea?) - Could we actually make Free Market Capitalism Humane?
- SketchSepahi rated 5 months ago
- I would like to eat there. It just goes to show that Loatse was absolutely right over 2000 years ago:
The very highest if barely known.
Then comes that which people know and love.
Then that which is feared,
Then that which is despised.
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
When actions are performed
Without unnecessary speech,
People say, "We did it!" - I would like to eat there. It just goes to show that Loatse was absolutely right over 2000 years ago:
- wrikar rated 7 months ago
- I have several similar restaurants near me and the food is excellent
- chris20988 rated 7 months ago
- great idea, if only there was one in the UK
- edwardmills rated 7 months ago
- Interesting concept for restaurants. Pay what you want. Hope the food is good!
- bridget247byrne rated 7 months ago
- this is a wonderful concept that they have attempted to pursue. i am going to germany this summer, so perhaps i will be able to write a real review of this place. :) until then--stellar site
- lrdbyron rated 8 months ago
- ONe world in SLC, utah is FANTASTIC. I eat there quite often.
- the6thmonkey rated 8 months ago
- free meal
- Eagle0600 rated 8 months ago
- Would work if people weren't ass holes. So would democracy and communism, and... anything, really.
- Tugger1013 rated 8 months ago
- I've heard this done with several different products and services. It seems like a great idea, although I'm not sure if it would work for all things or if many people took this approach.
