Jon Bon Jovi was looking to make a difference with his restaurant aimed at helping the homeless, but a New Jersey mayor is doing everything possible to shatter the rocker’s dream.
The iconic musician and his wife, Dorothea, run the JBJ Soul Kitchen , a nonprofit spot which has a pay-it-forward model in hopes of helping all types of socioeconomic backgrounds, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The restaurant – which first opened in 2011 in Red Bank – notes on its website: “It is not a pay-what-you-want model or a soup kitchen,” as customers instead pay for their meals and also have an opportunity to pay for someone else’s food as well.
The eatery also has locations in Newark and in Jersey City, and opened a pop-up location stationed inside Tom River’s Ocean County Library …