{"id":494,"date":"2009-03-17T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/03\/seen-in-one-city-is-the-dana-generosity-model-spreading.html"},"modified":"2009-03-17T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:51:23","slug":"seen-in-one-city-is-the-dana-generosity-model-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/03\/seen-in-one-city-is-the-dana-generosity-model-spreading.html","title":{"rendered":"Seen in One City: Is The Dana (Generosity) Model Spreading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t embed this great CNN video interview about a donation-based restaurant in Ohio that is doing just fine with no set prices on their menu, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/data\/2.0\/video\/business\/2009\/03\/17\/am.roberts.pay.what.you.want.cnn.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watch It Here <\/a>and then check back for discussion.<br \/>\nWhat do you think? Could the Dana (generosity, donation, pay-what-you-can) model catch on in America in the current economic crisis?<br \/>\nOr is it a pipe dream? Bad economic policy. Bleeding heart hippie-ism?<br \/>\nWhat other places do you see going to a pay-what-you-can model? Thanks to my friend Alice for sharing the vid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t embed this great CNN video interview about a donation-based restaurant in Ohio that is doing just fine with no set prices on their menu, but Watch It Here and then check back for discussion. What do you think? Could the Dana (generosity, donation, pay-what-you-can) model catch on in America in the current economic crisis?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seen in One City: Is The Dana (Generosity) Model Spreading? - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/03\/seen-in-one-city-is-the-dana-generosity-model-spreading.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seen in One City: Is The Dana (Generosity) Model Spreading? - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Couldn&#8217;t embed this great CNN video interview about a donation-based restaurant in Ohio that is doing just fine with no set prices on their menu, but Watch It Here and then check back for discussion. 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