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What could a non-profit restaurant look like?What could a non-profit restaurant look like?

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

August 23, 2023

 

Food journalist and former New York Times dining columnist Mark Bittman said in a recent interview with The Guardian that he wants to start a chain of nonprofit restaurants and has been pitching the idea — called Community Kitchen — to potential investors. Bittman has touted the (for now) menu-free concept as an idea that would prioritize promoting regenerative agriculture, paying workers fairly, and offering food on a sliding-scale price structure over profit.

While in the interview, Bittman seemed to want to change the world through this business model, and be “really disruptive, really revolutionary, really radical” to address current issues in the global food system, he is hardly the first entrepreneur to tread these waters.

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

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