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      <title>Comments On: Caf&amp;eacute; Gratitude imports Californian food piety &amp;ndash; and some tasty recipes &amp;ndash; to KC
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Jake Taylor]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[who ever wrote this article is a jerk. if it were a christian restaurant you wouldn't have said so many disrespectful things.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[no gracias madre]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Big surprise, the Engelharts are so broke from the lawsuits that they managed to open a brand new LA location. Maybe sacred commerce includes pretending you are broke in order to close a few locations, making massive profits from the sale of the land so you can open way more franchises.
        
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      <![CDATA[Here's hoping I never ever EVER hear these words again...."Did you like your yummy enzymes?" Seriously bland food, Horribly vapid waitstaff.
        
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      <![CDATA[I wonder how the Engelharts will develop the chain beyond Kc, and which of their LLC's will be used. The word in the san fran food community is that the cafe closings were just a convenient way to make huge profits selling the buildings and blame it on the small amount it took to settle the lawsuits.
        
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      <![CDATA[After reading all of these comments, I wouldn't eat here for anything.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Melisa Nguyen]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Being a meat and potatoes kind of girl i was very nervous about going to Cafe Gratitude for a work lunch meeting. My main thought was please let me find ANYTHING to be able to eat and actually enjoy here.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[hippie mama]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I really wanted to like it but the service the service was slow at lunch. My 4 year old and my nephew loved their dishes but the kids meal rang up $7.50 (on the menu it was $5) with an additional $2 charge for avocado.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[captain koolaid]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I don't have to eat the food to know I wouldn't like a place that coerces its employees and cheats them out of money in order to make higher profits. Nice of everyone to continue ignoring the elephant in the corner though.
        
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      <![CDATA[You know, for those of you who don't like it, or haven't been there and judge it as though you wouldn't like it--don't go there. Every place is simply just not made for every person.
        
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      <![CDATA[When local people aggressively court restaurateurs in order to open a franchise, and those restaurateurs have been sued for tip pooling practices, keeping specific employees salaried in order to avoid paying them overtime (something that several major corporations have lost class action suits over in the past few years), forcing employees to pay out their own pockets for required new age seminars, and in at least one instance firing an employee who refused to attend one, then I think it's fair game to bring it all up in a public forum. its not about not liking a hippie vibe or vegan food, it's about the treatment of employees by people who use that hippie vibe and vegan food as a shield from any accountability.<br>
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Is this place so holy and so important that the most basic business ethics can be totally ignored?
        
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      <![CDATA[sorry, I wanted to like this place, but it's bloody awful. The service was impossible and if you're going to sell a bowl of turnips over rice, at least call it that and not steamed vegetables.
        
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      <![CDATA[C'mon everyone... Let's support Kansas City business run by Kansas City people!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[don't be hatin']]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Nothing wrong with a little feel-good hippie-vibes here and there. Lighten up, yo.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mad Keith Beyond Geezerdome]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If this stuff is so good, why ingredients like faux bacon and "dairy-free mozzarella"? More phoney than the "processed cheese" at Price Chopper.<br>
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If it were a house of ill repute, they'd be selling fake orgasms.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[I Feel Creeped Out]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Yep. A chain restaurant with seminars that has been sued.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mia Anne Rosenbloom Rosado]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Cafe' Gratitude is a breath of Fresh air for any town it would find it's self in. It is very fitting to show up in the Heartland of America at this time in our history.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[From a vegetarian to a salesperson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Dear Love Life,<br>
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Half of their chains out on the west coast closed due to them being sued by their employees for pooling tips, not subcribing to their 'cult like ways'. This is common knowledge.
        
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      <![CDATA[Dear Crap,<br>
Just a little information. Almost all of the owners are local Kansas Citians and partnered with the two founders and chose not to do a franchise or a chain.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Laura Sterchi]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[To add to my earlier comment, I feel it's important for people to know that this particular KC restaurant's opening had a HUGE local and national support system for years, demonstrating a NEED and DESIRE for more V restaurants in the Midwest. More, please.
        
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      <![CDATA[My Daughter-In-Law took me there a couple of weeks ago and we LOVED the food, enjoyed the physical atmosphere, and were amused by the whole air of "love, peace, & bell bottoms". We would each go back in a min!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Save the crap, you are charging me anyways]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[IF, big IF... I got sick of the locally owned places and decided to go to this chain then I would have to right away tell the server to save the b.s. and just point to whatever is on the menu and say "I want this."
        
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    <author><![CDATA[LS]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Charles, I love that you worked in a macrobiotic restaurant- '...been there, done that.' - so you had some foundation to write upon.
        
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