And then they started protesting outside the now-shuttered coffee shops, demanding the owners re-open them.

The coffee house management released a statement:

It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the closure of all three OCF Coffee House locations. After 13 wonderful years of serving our beloved community, the time has come to say goodbye.

Throughout the years, our passion for creating a welcoming and warm space in our neighborhoods has driven us forward, despite operating at a loss. We pushed forward because we understood the positive impact we were making in our communities and the importance to maintain a level of compensation and benefits (health, vision, dental, life, matching 401k) that each staff member deserved. Rising operational costs, reduced sales and the expiration of a couple of our leases this summer have made it difficult to continue operating the coffee shops, and the administrative and legal costs associated with our staff's desire to organize has regrettably moved us beyond any cost that we could sustain.

Sounds like they were pretty generous with employees -- but parasites gonna parasite until the host is dead.

I've seen this behavior in the comics industry -- low-skilled, interchangeable clerical workers unionized at (I believe) IDW, demanding higher wages at a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy. They even demanded that they be granted veto authority over any comic book IDW intended to publish that they considered politically problematic.

IDW is losing all of its licenses and has been delisted from the stock exchange. It's just a matter of time before it goes bankrupt.

The left is just a cargo cult of very stupid and fundamentally broken people. They do not accept that a company needs to make money before any workers' demands can be satisfied. They view money the way all leftists view electricity -- you just stick the thing in the socket and the money comes flowing out, by magic.

Workers have no leverage in a Biden economy, especially these very low-skilled workers (some of whom allegedly even intentionally drive customers away with hostile antisemitism).

Macklemore is an openly antisemitic rapper. Like old-school Nazi-propaganda-poster hatred for Jews. He just released a full album of pro-Hamas raps.

If you're just hearing about this, that's because the left covers up for its own many, many racists and antisemites.

This is taking place in Philadelphia -- does everyone remember the coffee shop where the bratty (and very LGBT) child of landowning parents decided to boot them out of the space because they weren't turning a profit and the parents got sick of letting them keep the space for zero rent? They got very, very angry about that. They even protested their parents.

Black Orchid explains:

ok so Minas was a co-op cafe - basically one of those very Woke, pay-as-u-wish, head in the clouds hippy operations. it was owned/run by a lady named EJ. her son is trans, that's Kate. they are about as lefty as they come, the whole idea for the place was socialist, etc etc

they employed a bunch of (probably) dropped out former penn and drexel BIPOC students. these employees decided they needed to get reparations in the form of collective ownership of the business - building and all. EJ said "um, no."

the workers grabbed her "daughter" who has some mental issues and made "her" the face of their demands on Instagram. with a series of very bizarre videos where "she" talks quite badly about "her" parents and supports the demands of the baristas. they look like hostage videos.

so the parents were stuck, they closed up shop, and are now putting the building up for sale. Kate is apparently a total mess and sunk into a deep depression, so I am not really laughing at all this. it's blue-vs-blue, yes. but i'm just hippie enough to feel for EJ with everything going on.

it's total insanity, basically.

Okay, okay, okay, now I understand "Kate's" position in this. The son of the owners of the coffee shop, who thinks he's a girl, who is trying to raise enough money to buy the building back so he can give it to the "black and brown" workers who demand reparations in the business.

Even the wokies of Reddit don't get it:

Does anyone understand what's going on with Mina's World?

Trying to be understanding and open minded but all I've gotten from the instagram videos posted by the owners and staff is "harm" was committed and it can be fixed by helping to crowdfund a transfer of the property from the one owner's rich mother into employee ownership

If there was wage theft or mistreatment of these workers in someway I support them but right now it's just a bunch of vagueness being tossed around.

missdeweydell
2 days ago

yes it's super....weird. all of it. that video they posted was like a hostage video for ransom. since no one involved will come out and say what the actual harm is, it seems from piecing together IG stories that the staff want the owners to turn the biz into a co-op for reparations (?) as gentrifiers (?) and are getting resistance from 1/3 of the owners who happens to be kate's mom and is wealthy. it just seems weird coming from a biz run by POC and trans folks. of all the businesses to come for, they chose this one?

dandykaufman2

They come for this one because these guys would let themselves be bullied out of the place based on stated values.

In other words: Well, they said they were woke, we figured we'd test them to see how woke they really were by demanding they just give us their business and their buildin

Philadelphia "baristas" sure seem to have a very exaggerated sense of their economic necessity.

Especially like this rabble-rouser who just shut down three coffee houses with her (or "her") extravagant appraisals of her value in a customer-facing operation:

She (or "she") has more metal in her face than the Statue of Liberty.

Would you like your coffee with a splash of accidental nasal discharge?

And wasn't it in Philadelphia where Starbucks, under pressure by BLM grifters, first implemented its policy of allowing every franchisee's bathroom to be used as a hobo's craphouse/traphouse?

WTF is going on Philadelphia? Do they just want to drive all small shops out of business?

Oh right -- it's a Soros Zone. Soros intends to destroy the cities and immiserate the population. But we can't say that because he'll order his paid media shills to claim that I'm antisemtic, even though he's not Jewish and is actually a Nazi collaborator.

Maybe George Soros should open some coffee shops in Philly. And run them on "Soros values," paying "baristas" $50/hour or whatever he claims is a "livable wage."

You gonna step up, George?

Meanwhile, Pizza Hut is in serious trouble.

Best economy in history, Jack!