He should have opened in Mamdaniville, where AOC could have volunteered to tend bar on weekends

Minneapolis restaurant with no prices will close after a year of "trying to prove" that socialism works

When immigration enforcement ramped up in Minneapolis earlier this year, owner Dylan Alverson rebranded the restaurant as "Post Modern Times." He took prices off the menu and declared he would feed anyone who walked in the door, whether they could pay or not.

Well, almost anyone. Federal agents were explicitly unwelcome.

The stunt made national news. Donations poured in from around the world.

For six months, the restaurant operated as a pay-what-you-can (or pay-nothing-at-all) sanctuary in Minneapolis. But as it turns out, people are greedy, and the comrade who pays $10 for a hipster sandwich starts wondering why they are shelling out $10 while someone else pays $1, and the comrade who pays $1 is wondering why others are getting the sandwich for free.

The restaurant had been struggling financially for years.

Let's see how it unfolded from one of our "favorite" leftwing newspapers, The Star Tribune: [paywall, so …. _ed]

Neighbors began to be crowded out of the restaurant by people who could not pay and who lingered around the restaurant all day. Complaints mounted of open drug use, theft, discarded needles in the alley and overdoses on the sidewalk.

After a series of contentious community meetings, Alverson closed the restaurant in July for a few weeks, then reopened in August with prices back on the menu.

“I don’t get it”