Can You Trust Your Conscience?

How do you think a restaurant would do where people were expected to pay for what they took, and pay as much or as little as they thought it was worth? That is exactly what the owners of one restaurant decided to do. Gene and Grace Valian are owners of the Great American Breakfast and Barbecue House, and they decided to try a pay-what-you-want experiment. But it ended in failure. Some people have “just no consciences at all,” they said, explaining that most people paid “just a shade under what they would have normally paid.”