--- description: "Revenues are up," says the owner title: Restaurant Menu Has No Prices So Customers Pay What God Tells Them to Pay image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Restaurant Menu Has No Prices So Customers Pay What God Tells Them to Pay  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Oct 9, 2014 10:05 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Oct 9, 2014 10:05 PM CUT A North Carolina restaurant has announced it’s putting the business in the hands of God and letting customers pay what they want for their meals. According to a Sept. 29 post on the [Facebook page for](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story%5Ffbid=474614106014109&id=195684670573722 "undefined") the restaurant Just Cookin in Dallas, North Carolina: --- > “” --- “I gave Him control of the cash register,” Dana Parris told the [Gaston _Gazette_](http://www.gastongazette.com/local-diner-owner-turns-cash-register-over-to-god-video-1.382499?tc=cr "undefined"). “There’s been a few people who got to eat who didn’t have the money. And there’s been a lot of people who have overpaid what the normal price would be. We’ve been blessed. Revenues are up.” This unique policy is a complete 180º from the [restaurant customers who claim](http://business.time.com/2013/11/18/worst-restaurant-customers-ever-use-religion-racism-as-excuses-for-not-tipping-waiters/ "undefined") their faith forbids them from paying for their entire meals because the servers’ lifestyles go against their religion. Also worth noting: the “pay what you wish” concept, most often associated with museums, [does exist](http://www.kgw.com/videos/life/style/2014/07/22/11867850/ "undefined") at some eateries. Panera has been running pay-what-you-wish restaurants across the U.S. for the past four years, so the neediest people can get something to eat and even volunteer to work there as payment. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3486689/restaurant-where-god-controls-cash-register/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3486689/restaurant-where-god-controls-cash-register/"},"headline":"Restaurant Menu Has No Prices So Customers Pay What God Tells Them to Pay","datePublished":"2014-10-09T22:05:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:43.637Z","description":"\"Revenues are up,\" says the owner","url":"https://time.com/3486689/restaurant-where-god-controls-cash-register/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3486689/restaurant-where-god-controls-cash-register/","name":"Restaurant Menu Has No Prices So Customers Pay What God Tells Them to Pay"}}]}] ```