A Tale Of Two Guys, and Two Restaurants

TWO COOL METROSEXUAL DUDES, young well educated well dressed Ivy League wall street types with great careers in the financial services industry ahead of them, recently decided to deep six their wall street careers, and make a difference. Using their business acumen, and with a little help from a few old corporate friends, they opened two restaurants, both called "Every Table", one in south Los Angeles, a poor neighborhood, the other a couple of miles away, downtown, where the high rise white collar up scale set hangs. The business plan was to provide healthy , fast, convenient meals to both ends of the economic spectrum, at prices both spectral-ends could afford. With exactly the same menu in both locations, the downtown store charges twice as much as the south L.A. location, with both locations intended to make a profit, independent of each other. The average annual income in south L.A. is around thirteen thousand per, so "Every Table" would make healthy food affordable to low income and poor Americans, a rarity in the United States. Since both locations serve prepackaged meals from the same kitchen, overhead and employee expenses can be held down. One question might be, why wouldn't the up scale customers downtown simply get in their cars, and drive the two miles to south L.A.,for a half price lunch? Convenience, perhaps. Time limits, the hassle of driving and finding a parking space, maybe. Or maybe they know what's going on, and out of pride, or community spirit, prefer to stay put downtown near their high rise office building, and pay twice the south L.A. price, because its still a good deal. Compassionate, socially conscious capitalism may very well be the next big thing in America. We've got people like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates running around, creating charitable trust funds and poor folk-friendly businesses, and restaurants which allow customers to pay whatever they think they can afford report doing well. You somehow sense that these two young, smart wall street guys are gong to do just fine, and you certainly hope so.------------PLEASE SHARE THIS WEBSITE WITH OTHERS. WE WANT TO PROVIDE A DIALOGUE FOR PROGRESS. THANKS!