Panera Cares Limits Customer Hand-Outs, Beefs Up Security
Restaurant managers are asking individuals abusing the system to only come in once a week, and additional cameras have been added to the store.
After complaints from neighbors with safety concerns, Panera Cares says it’s limiting the number of times “food insecure” individuals can come to the store for a cheap meal. Representatives for the business at 616 W. Diversey Pkwy attended Monday’s South East Lake View Neighbors meeting to update residents about the things they’re doing to address safety concerns. Jimmy Hopper, one of the store’s managers, said they’ve been limiting people they think are abusing the system. “People who were coming in every day, we are asking they limit themselves to one a week,” Hoppers said. “…Two reasons we kind of backed off from that. If we had people coming in that aren’t abusing the system, I’m not going to have them come in and sign their names. “It…
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Zaphod Beeblebrox
1:51 pm on Friday, April 26, 2013
I got kicked off of Everyblock for asking if anybody was voting for Republican candidates. It got flagged unneighborly and I got harassing private messages, some of whom were probably from you. Everyblock has been defeated and is gone, the other problems like this place endure. Package thefts went up 80 percent within two weeks of this place opening and other kinds of crimes related to an influx … more ›