Pay what you want

Picture this: You walk into a restaurant, serve yourself a generous helping of each of the items on the buffet, have a waiter pour you unlimited cups of water and then get up to have another helping from the buffet. Before leaving, instead of requesting the bill, you pay what you judge to be a reasonable amount for the experience you just had. You are free to pay as little as a dollar or as much as a hundred bucks or more. Mótto, a new restaurant in Mar Mikhael and a fusion of the names of its founders Mohamad Fayyad and Tony Sfeir, has brought the concept of “pay what you want” to Beirut. This concept in the hospitality world is not new, and is used in countries like the United States, Germany, Austria and England. Sfeir learned about the concept during his trips to Berlin and found it very