曾向社区免费供餐的Modern Times咖啡馆宣布年底关闭 16年老店落幕
位于明尼苏达州亨内平县的Minneapolis市，明尼阿波利斯一家颇具社区声望的咖啡馆 Modern Times Café 宣布，将在今年年底结束近 16年的经营。店主 Dylan Alverson 在餐厅 Facebook 页面发文表示："过去 6 年里，我一直在努力证明Modern Times可以继续存在下去。我已经在不做妥协的前提下穷尽了所有选择。因此我们做出了年底关闭的决定。这是一个极其艰难的决定，并非轻率做出。"
Alverson 说，他现在宣布这一决定，是希望用接下来两个多月的时间好好庆祝这家店近 16年来"把创意置于成本之上、把善良置于利润之上"的坚持，并将在未来一周内说明做出这一决定的原因以及最后两个月的具体安排。他在文末写道："要让像 Modern Times这样的地方在未来继续存在，唯一的办法就是直面它无法再存在的原因。"
今年 1 月，当联邦移民执法人员大规模进驻明尼阿波利斯、代号"Operation Metro Surge"行动期间，Modern Times Café曾向社区免费提供食物，菜单上不标价格，直到行动结束。Alverson当时说："我想我是在赌人性，我想做一件好事，赌人们比人们以为的更好。"FOX 9此前曾报道过这家店在移民执法风波中帮助社区的事迹。
Modern Times Café, Which Fed Its Community for Free, to Close at Year's End After 16 Years
Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Modern Times Café, a Minneapolis café with a strong community reputation, has announced it will close at the end of this year after nearly 16 years in business. Owner Dylan Alverson wrote on the café's Facebook page: "For the past six years, I've been trying to prove that Modern Times can keep existing. I've exhausted every option without compromising. So we've made the decision to close at the end of the year. It's an extremely difficult decision, and not one made lightly."
Alverson said he is announcing now to spend the next two-plus months celebrating the café's nearly 16 years of "putting creativity over cost and kindness over profit," and will explain within the week why the decision was made and what the final two months will look like. He wrote at the end: "The only way places like Modern Times can exist in the future is to face head-on why this one can't anymore."
In January, when federal immigration agents surged into Minneapolis during the operation codenamed "Operation Metro Surge," Modern Times Café served free food to the community, with no prices on the menu, until the operation ended. Alverson said at the time: "I think I'm betting on humanity. I want to do a good thing, and bet that people are better than people think." FOX 9 previously reported on the café's help to the community during the immigration-enforcement turmoil.
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