Philly's Pay-What-You-Can Cafe Struggling To Stay Funded: Report

PHILADELPHIA – The EAT (Everyone at the Table) Café in University City is a pay-what-you-can eatery where needy residents can get a healthy meal for low costs. But a new report from WHYY details how the non-profit cafe is struggling to keep providing the cheap meals.

According to the outlet, while the cafe is typically busy, many customers are not paying more than the menu price of the meals they are getting.

It's the customers who pay more than the menu price that allow the eatery to keep offering its pay-what-you-want system.

The cafe, which is a project from Drexel's Center For Hunger-Free Communities, is located at 3820 Lancaster Ave. right in University City. It is a nonprofit venture that provides seasonal meals made from fresh ingredients.

WHYY reports the cafe has enough capital to stay open until summer 2019, but its up to giving customers to help keep the cafe afloat as the cafe's founders do not want to abandon the pay-what-you-can model to keep needy residents fed.

You can learn more about the cafe online here.

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