Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Restaurant patrons decide own charges LONDON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A London restaurant said it has begun a monthlong promotion to allow customers to skip the bill and pay only what they feel their meal was worth. Advertisement The Little Bay restaurant said all patrons who dine during the rest of February will be asked to pay whatever they consider to be a fair amount instead of receiving a bill, Sky News reported Wednesday. Little Bay owner Peter Ilic said the promotion is aimed at easing the stress of the economic downturn. "Anything between a penny and 50 pounds ($72) will make me happy, it's entirely up to the customer to decide," Ilic said. "It just seemed the right thing to do with everyone under the cosh and feeling pretty miserable." "Customers have already paid 20 percent more than the original price," the owner said. "People want to be polite and would be embarrassed not to pay enough." Advertisement JFK's overdue book to go on display BOSTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston said it plans to display a Library of Congress book thought to have been borrowed and never returned by Kennedy. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum officials said the book, "A. Lincoln" by Ross F. Lockridge, was discovered in Kennedy's pre-presidential papers and is thought to have been borrowed from the Library of Congress while he was serving as a U.S. senator in the 1950s, The Boston Globe reported Wednesday. Tom McNaught, a spokesman for the library, said the tome had "just always been assumed to have been one of his books" but the library was recently informed that "it had been checked out since he was a senator and he had just kept it." The library said the tome will be displayed later this month as part of a weeklong President's Day celebration before it is returned to the Library of Congress, which currently lists the Lincoln biography as missing on its online catalog. Man walks 18 miles to work in blizzard LONDON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A London hospital worker says he was so determined to get to work this week that he walked 18 miles during a blizzard. Advertisement Radiographer Peter Cartwright said his 54-mile journey from his home in the county of Kent to Guy's Hospital in London took him eight-and-a-half hours to complete, The Daily Mail said Wednesday. Cartwright said despite taking two trains and receiving two car rides for part of his journey Monday, he was still forced to walk a third of the way to the hospital. The radiographer had not been home since the blizzard, choosing instead to stay at Guy's Hospital rather than face another harrowing commute in the snow. Cartwright, 52, said that his 18-mile walk in the snow was not that terrible. "I like walking, I was warm and had food on me, so I was fine," he told The Daily Mail. "I also didn't want to let anyone down. It's (Guy's Hospital) a wonderful place to work and I thoroughly enjoy it." Ostrich pizza wins top prize in Sweden KALMAR , Sweden, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Officials with the Swedish Pizza Championships said the top prize went to a pie topped with ostrich fillet, mango, chili and fresh coriander. Hassan Saraoe of Kalmar impressed the eight-member jury with his Exotic Ostrich Pizza and won $1,200 and the chance to represent his country at the Europe-wide pizza cooking competition, The Local reported Wednesday. Advertisement "It was a wow experience when I had a taste. The tastes were very unusual for a pizza," competition manager David Khabbazi said of the ostrich pizza. "The competition was very tough. But when the points were added up Hassan Saraoe won quite convincingly."
