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What a Great Idea: Stars often give back. But rocker Jon Bon Jovi has come up with an innovative twist. He and his wife, Dorothea, have opened The JBJ Soul Kitchen, a "pay-what-you-can" restaurant in Red Bank, N.J. The JBJ Soul Kitchen began serving meals in 2009, utilizing two different pilot locations and assessing the patrons' needs and response to the model, before renovating an old 1,100-square-foot auto-body shop as the Kitchen's new, permanent location. Entrees are upscale, including cornmeal crusted catfish with red beans and rice, grilled chicken breast with homemade basil mayo and rice pilaf, and grilled salmon with soul seasonings, sweet potato mash and sauteed greens, reports AP. The concept: To provide gourmet-quality meals to the hungry while enabling them to volunteer on community projects in return. It's a soup kitchen, but not a typical one. Bon Jovi explained to AP before the opening Wednesday that he hopes patrons will come and eat, but give something in return. Paying customers are encouraged to leave whatever they want in the envelopes on each table, where the menus never list a price. "If you can't afford to eat, you can bus tables, you can wait tables, you can work in the kitchen as a dishwasher or sous chef," he said. Or you can volunteer elsewhere and earn a certificate good for a meal at The Soul Kitchen. "If you come in and say, 'I'm hungry,' we'll feed you," Bon Jovi told AP. "But we're going to need you to do something. It's very important to what we're trying to achieve."

[TAP]

I planned to go but only got halfway there.

[Timothy]

If you skip out on the bil you will not be wanted dead or alive.

[lynn]

Jon's a good man.

[TAP]

They grill the meat at 7800F

[TAP]

If you skip out on the bil you will not be wanted dead or alive.

But they will shoot you through the heart and you will be to blame.

[Timothy]

Jon's a good man.

Is that code for will" Ride His Steel Horse"?

[freedom78]

If the waitress looks underage, it's because she's a little runaway.

[Timothy]

The blood on blood chili will have you going out in a blaze of glory!!

[TAP]

If the waitress looks underage, it's because she's a little runaway.

Oh right, hop on my bandwagon and get a karma point why don't you

[freedom78]

Sounds like someone got a mouthful of bad medicine.

[TAP]

Don't lay your hands on me.

[AxlsMainMan]

Good service and fresh meals Alwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyssssssssssss.

[BlowUpYourVideo]

When I went, some guy spilled his wine so they had to put out one of those 'slipper when wet' notices to warn people.... Fuck you, it's the best I could come up with with my limited Bon Jovi knowledge.

[TAP]

When I went, some guy spilled his wine so they had to put out one of those 'slipper when wet' notices to warn people....



Fuck you, it's the best I could come up with with my limited Bon Jovi knowledge.

Limited Bon Jovi knowledge is second only to no Bon Jovi knowledge. I wish I could unknow what I know.