Toronto's 'Pay What You Can' Anti-Capitalist Café Closes After One Year
The Anarchist, an anti-capitalist café and coffee shop in Toronto, Canada, with a "pay what you can" business model, will close at the end of May after just over a year in business. The café offered drip coffee with a "pay what you can" price tag while charging for other beverages and breakfast pastries to subsidize the lost revenue. Despite its closure, the owner called it a "huge success" that sparked debate and experimented with "living and working in ways that don't enthusiastically embrace the pure misanthropy of Capitalism."