The Khaali Peeli concept

Our cafe is just a weekend cafe. Each weekend we try something new, something different, we improvise and create a dish that is healthy, not too common and of course, tasty. In the twelve days that we have run our cafe till now, we have served falafel hummus and tahini, makke ki roti and baingan bharta, wheat pasta with basil tomato sauce, moong dal cheela, dhokla, mini idlis with sauteyed vegetables, chinese style porridge, vegetable momos, etc etc. Our food is accompanied with herbal tea on most days. On some days we keep jal jeera or chhaas. The unique feature of our cafe is that you can come and eat and drink and talk and hang out and help out, and then, you can pay whatever you wish to, in our hand made money box. It often comes as a surprise to people, with the most common response of ' come on, thats not fair'. Its ironic that when we ask people to decide how much they would like to pay for what they have eaten, they feel its not fair! Its in the same category of irony where when you return from a no electricity, no mobile phone, no money forest festival back to the city, people say 'welcome back to reality'.