\u2018A Lot of Carbs\u2019: Panera Bread CEO Learns to Live on $4.50 a Day<\/a> by Julie Jargon in The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\nThe Text:<\/strong> Panera Bread Co. CEO Ron Shaich is trying to subsist on $4.50 a day for a week. It\u2019s not going so well.<\/p>\nMr. Shaich agreed to try to get by on the average amount allocated to individuals in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as part of a hunger awareness campaign in which a number of corporate executives and politicians are taking part \u2013 September is Hunger Action Month \u2014 and to bring attention to a Congressional proposal to cut funding for the program.<\/p>\n
Spending just $31.50 per week on food has turned out to be a lot harder than Mr. Shaich thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been eating a lot of carbs and drinking a lot of water,\u201d says Mr. Shaich, who started his SNAP diet last Thursday. \u201cI drive by these restaurants I go to all the time and I can\u2019t go in. I can\u2019t even go into a Panera.\u201d<\/p>\n
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One Panera sandwich alone can blow the entire daily budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been involved in hunger issues for a long time and I realized I don\u2019t really know what it\u2019s about. One in six Americans didn\u2019t know where their next meal was coming from at some point in the last week and I wanted to understand at a very personal level what that feels like,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
In an effort to help provide an answer to the hunger problem, Panera has opened five Panera Cares Community Cafes across the country where people can pay whatever they can afford for a meal.<\/p>\n
For breakfast this morning, Mr. Shaich had dry cereal and water and made chickpea soup for both lunch and dinner. \u201cThe only veggies I\u2019ve had are the canned tomatoes in my soup,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to eat well. Money really provides choices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Shaich has stopped drinking espresso to save money and as a result, says he\u2019s had headaches and felt cranky. In need of some sugar, he bought a fireball from someone at his office for 25 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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