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Wizard_of_Iducation t1_j3xn14b wrote

These owners are awful and I hope they go broke.

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nowtayneicangetinto t1_j3ydksy wrote

Is this the cafe that was caught up in that controversy that spilled out onto social media? I think a barista or something made a small viral video calling them out?

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leninluvr t1_j3yoqn7 wrote

Nah that’s Mina’s world

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wawa2563 t1_j3ywh99 wrote

Mina's world was epic. It was watching epic wokism eat itself over social media.

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nalgene_wilder t1_j40zwha wrote

The only thing epic about it was watching a bunch of anti-woke weirdos froth at the mouth for weeks about a cafe they didn't know existed in a part of town they never go to

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wawa2563 t1_j410r1h wrote

This was my neighborhood for over two decades and what happened was the culmination of well intentioned priviledged people being taken advantage of by a bunch of confidence people.

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MRC1986 t1_j41ny4n wrote

Reminds me of the over 800 comment thread on Dishonest Honest Tom's going vegan 4+ years ago. It got brigaded by vegan subs lmao. Lo and behold, it didn't even last one year, and the new owners (who were cooks) immediately went back to serving meat, and as far as I know still exists today and is doing well.

Fuck "Honest" Tom, fucking woo new age "alkaline diet" dickhead.

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igotbabydick t1_j40cq39 wrote

I’m a little out of the loop… what happened?

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mmw2848 t1_j40vpof wrote

https://www.reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/vc3mby/does_anyone_understand_whats_going_on_with_minas/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

There's another thread if you search Mina on this sub. The TLDR is that the worker's claimed "harm" occurred and demanded that the owners give them the business and the building. The third owner (mother of one of the day-to-day operators and main funder of the business) basically said hell no, shut down the café, and put the building up for sale.

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Bethjana1 t1_j464uz6 wrote

It was infuriating. A bunch of whackadoo bullies demanding to own a business because they work there and a bunch of young owners who bent the knee. So sad. My neighborhood. A shanda. But hope lessons were learned.

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wawa2563 t1_j466o60 wrote

I loved it when the successful Korean immigrant mother who owned the property and set everyone straight. Some of the staff was making the owners feel bad for owning the business and tried to guilt them into handing it over.

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Bethjana1 t1_j4685g4 wrote

Yeah dude it was insane and soooo painful to watch.

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LootTheHounds t1_j3xkapv wrote

Reminds me of what happened last summer. Greensgrow Farms' employees voted to unionize and suddenly GG was the victim of check fraud to the tune of over $30k, "forcing" them to lay everyone off.

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CB_700_SC t1_j3yh5sa wrote

I’m a small business close to greensgrow. I also had a large check stolen 4 months ago. It has impacted a bunch where I’m picking bills to pay. For my business and for someone who is already bad in debt I could see it causing them to close. If you can’t pay your employees, vendors or rent you don’t last long.

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LootTheHounds t1_j3yhnsn wrote

It doesn't change the suspect timing. if they were working with authorities, they had options. I'm also familiar with how they treated their employees prior to letting them all go. I can't give them full benefit of the doubt.

Greensgrow also received several grants over the course of 2022. Instead, they've let their website expire and the locations to rot.

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CB_700_SC t1_j3ymgwj wrote

True. Businesses don’t go under due to one stolen check.

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LootTheHounds t1_j3yqj93 wrote

The city also owns the land they're on, Greensgrow is a project the city itself invested in. It just casts a shadow over their claims.

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MisterAlaska t1_j3ywgny wrote

Happened to another West Philly nonprofit too. It’s a legit problem in the neighborhood.

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MCgrindahFM OP t1_j3y0v7q wrote

Damn I literally googled them around December for possible Christmas gifts and couldn’t find them. Never knew that!

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icedoutskimaskszn t1_j3xu09x wrote

Ohhh… I wasn’t sure what happened to them. Was pretty bummed because historically they would have really good plants for summer and stuff for wreathes and trees in the winter. Figures.

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LootTheHounds t1_j3xvmof wrote

After Mary died, leadership changed for the worse. The pandemic exacerbated it.

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Robo-boogie t1_j4pz74i wrote

The check fraud issue is nuts. On my neighbourhood page someone posted that they mailed a check inside the post office and not using the blue boxes, it was still stolen.

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palerthanrice t1_j3ya6uz wrote

There's a good chance the owners are making this up, but for what it's worth, my once good friend almost got in a lot of trouble over doing something similar, and coincidentally just as other employees were talking to union organizers.

The owners were complete dicks, constantly absent from the store but then always nitpicky whenever they were in. Not to give away which store this was, but it was a swanky, artsy book/gift store, and a pretty big one. These people were just not fit to be owners, and it was a pretty big place with very little oversight. She started just cancelling out cash sales on the register and pocketing it. I told her how that could get very obvious over time, but she said that there's no chance of getting caught since the owners are never there.

She actually got caught because she wasn't the only person doing it. Turns out, another girl was doing that as well, and much more frequently, and also on the same register. It was to the point where the cash and credit sales were way different on that particular register compared to the other ones, and it was like that almost every day. So the owners installed a camera without telling them and caught both of them doing it. Union talks fizzled out because of these idiots, and the owners didn't press charges because they only had evidence of them stealing a pretty small amount (instead of letting them steal larger and larger amounts, they just fired them).

She justified doing this shit because all the other employees hated these owners too. They really were getting the ball rolling on unionization, but as far as I know, that definitely fizzled out. The place has been closed since covid anyway so it wouldn't have done much good. Moral of the story, don't do anything illegal if you're trying to unionize because you'll fuck over your fellow workers.

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octos11 t1_j3zt801 wrote

Now I really wanna know what store this was lol

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cockytiel t1_j418f0c wrote

Every shit min. wage job I've had people were doing this.

One owner never noticed all the credits being rung up by the one manager. The assistant manager made copies of it to protect her ass but wouldn't turn him in. The owner did catch the one dude literally take money and put it right in his pocket, though. A lot of the staff would just not ring things up and then pocket the money. On simple orders the prices were memorized.

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lateavatar t1_j41gujk wrote

Wow, I worked a few and never did anything like that. To be fair, my family went to church growing up, so I guess the Sunday school stuff sank in. I’m not religious now but I would still be uncomfortable stealing from someone.

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palerthanrice t1_j41o7xm wrote

Yeah I was raised the same way and would object every time my friend would bring this up. My argument against it was “this is obviously morally wrong, don’t take shit that isn’t yours, also you’re gonna get caught” and her argument was basically “no it isn’t, they’re mean and deserve it, and I’ll never get caught.”

I never thought she’d fuck over her other coworkers, but I guess that’s yet another reason not to do this shit.

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udsdown t1_j422u1i wrote

Yup, if someone is willing to compromise morals involving basic decency, I'd go as far as to bet they also wouldn't mind screwing over anyone close to them.

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Baron_Von_D t1_j42a9vv wrote

Kinda related, when I worked for Micro Center, there was a few cashiers that got caught trying to pull some scheme. When customers were returning relatively low dollar items, they were putting it on a gift card that they were passing between each other, instead of the customer's card. Then they would have a friend buy a bigger item with that gift card and sell the item on ebay. What they didn't realize was, LP had pinhole cameras mounted in the ceiling tiles above every cash station and started checking them after a few complaints from customers about returns. LP were also off duty cops paid by the store, who immediately arrested the cashiers when the came in for their shift.

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palerthanrice t1_j42ey5u wrote

Lol that’s pretty hair brained.

I think what annoys me most about these people is that they force owners to implement surveillance measures and strict accountability policies that annoy the shit out of honest workers.

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BertSquirggles t1_j3xlam5 wrote

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/workforce/another-coffee-chains-employees-begin-unionize

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datches89 t1_j3z0pyi wrote

Since this article, the Walnut Street location closed permanently, the Fitler Square location is closed for extended renovations, and now this, another renovation with the discovery of embezzlement, leaving just the Broad Street location. Hmm...

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thriftstorecats t1_j3z3uwn wrote

It’s just unionbusting. They’d rather tank their own stores than be okay with their team having a union

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napsdufroid t1_j3xqw1w wrote

Considering what an asshole the owner is, small loss

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matane t1_j47s6jy wrote

I used to see him a lot when I worked there, is he really that shitty?

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DocBee65 t1_j41ela4 wrote

The whole thing seems very strange about the whole unfortunate series of events

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OfferCorrect278 t1_j3zac16 wrote

This is what happens when you try to unionize a COFFEE shop. These are not folks trying to rip off the worker, they serve coffee. If the union movement wants to make progress, try something more substantial. And please don’t stop the flow of coffee next time.

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