The Garden Diner and Café, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a vegan worker-run “collective” formerly known as the Bartertown Diner, shut down this week after a five-year run as reality overcame devotion to communist principles.
The restaurant promised a “living wage” to all employees and a strong union; that promise should have been enough to predict its demise, and indeed, it was.
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