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SAME Cafe: How much do people pay?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 4:15 p.m.
Bob and Iris Goodrich each had a large soup and coffee. They paid $5 each. 1/14
Greg had two slices of pizza, a large soup and a salad. He paid $7.50. 2/14
Becky had a slice of pizza, a salad and an ice tea. She paid $7. 3/14
James had a large soup, a salad and a slice of pizza. He paid $1.50. 4/14
Sherrie had a slice of pizza, a salad and soup. She paid $1. 5/14
Jennifer had a slice of pizza, a small soup and a cookie. She paid $5. 6/14
The concept behind SAME is that some people will voluntarily pay more to help cover those who pay less or nothing at all. 7/14
Brad Birky and his wife Libby started SAME in 2006. 8/14
Raven had a small soup, two slices of pizza, a salad and a coffee. She paid nothing. 9/14
Dewey had a slice of pizza, a salad and a small soup. She paid $5. 10/14
Sarah had two slices of pizza, a salad and an ice tea. She paid $10. 11/14
Greg had one slice of pizza, a salad and a coffee. He paid $5. 12/14
Brad had a salad, a slice of pizza and a coffee. He paid $5. 13/14
Renda had a large soup, a slice of pizza, salad and tea. She paid by washing dishes for two hours. 14/14

SAME Cafe: How much do people pay?

In this week's Westword, Jared Jacang Maher reports on SAME Cafe, the non-profit Colfax eatery that lets customers pay what they want (or can). Here, a look at what recent SAME customers chose to pay for their meals. Photos by J. Knight, interviews by Maher.

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