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christopher myers
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- Oakland, CA
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To Go Tea Service
Started this discussion. Last reply by Alain de Assis Rosa Apr 28, 2012. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Anyone know a good way of doing a quality tea service to go? What we want is to steep the tea in-house and separate the tea leaves after infusion, but still give the leaves to the customer to…Continue
An Experiment in Worker-Ownership
Started this discussion. Last reply by Neal Apr 11, 2012. 5 Replies 2 Likes
Well, it's been about a year since I started a discussion here about opening a specialty cafe using the worker-owned cooperative model. It was an interesting discussion, but in the end I had to stop…Continue
Alchemy Collective Cafe
Started Aug 5, 2011 0 Replies 1 Like
Alchemy Collective is the first worker owned specialty cafe, like, anywhere, as far as I can tell. When I had the idea, I recruited two creative, passionate baristas, and together we planned,…Continue
Tags: worker-owned, collective, verve, pourover, cooperative
Custom siphon pot-needs a little help
Started this discussion. Last reply by christopher myers Jul 14, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Hey friends, so our inner mad scientists got the better of us, and we decided to design our own vac pot and have it fabricated by a local lab glass shop. The purpose for the redesign was to make…Continue
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- What is your position in the coffee industry?
- barista, manager, coffee shop owner, coffee enthusiast, entrepreneur
- Where are you located? ( City and Country )
- Oakland, USA
- How many years have you been in the industry?
- 8
- If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?
- yes
- Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.
- My espresso attack is unstoppable.
- What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?
- I'll go anywhere if it's cheap and has good food.
- About Me:
- I like a book with my coffee, I like a whiskey rocks with my friends. I'm a fabricator of things.
- About My Company:
- 3 of us founded Alchemy Collective Cafe, incorporating as a worker-owned cooperative. We Started off at a farmer's market table, then built a mobile espresso cart, then moved into a closet-sized micro cafe, and we've now opened our full-sized cafe on the Oakland/Berkeley border 3 great years after inception.
There are 9 of us worker-owners now. We built out the cafe together, we split up back-end tasks so we have no managers, and no employees, no bosses. We make decisions democratically and split profits by hours worked and weighted by seniority.
We serve Verve coffee for now, but we've started working with a roaster friend to develop our own roasts. So look out for Alchemy Collective Roaster within the next couple years.
Cooperatize everything!
- What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?
- Mostly all the money and fame.
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Hey guys congrats on everything you have done. I have 2 cafe's/coffee shops under my belt and I am now doing coffee cart/kiosks..i am looking to build a nice one as you guys have done. you guys have any detailed plans or better videos you have done? I remember reading some where that if you would have done anything different you would have used different wheels, any thing elsE?
thanks for any help
Brian
Mr. Myers,
Thanks for your response. I am very interested in hearing your thoughts about a Co-op type of model.
I appreciate uyou taking the time to enlighten us!