Cafe Bari, the midtown Manhattan cafe that served small sandwiches in addition to other food items and coffee items, has decided to drop its hashgacha after Pesach.
The cafe only launched a year ago and has concluded that it did not have enough kosher clientele to keep the kosher supervision moving forward.
Whoever offered the kashrut hashgacha on Cafe Bari should have offered to work with the management by putting one of their people in there as a qualified worker not just a mashgiach thereby lowering the certification fee. The agency would get considerably less money but at least the store would still have a kashrut hechsher. That is what we have done in many instances.