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What cafe do/did you work at?

What is/was, your position?

Years of coffee/cafe experience before starting?

Are you currently working there, or what year did you leave?

Current wage/salary, or your final wage/salary?

Your estimated daily tips, if any?

What benefits does/did the cafe offer? (Paid time off, health insurance, etc.)

Barista and Social Media Assnt

PTO, Health insurance, orca cards, 8 weeks paid parental leave, education credits

Starbucks Reserve Roastery

Storyville Coffee Company

Tips are split and added on to paychecks, evens out to about ~$3/hr

PTO, Health, Vision, Dental, Life

Vacation & sick time, paid holidays, health/dental/vision insurance, free food, regular & consistent hours, no weekends, gym access, etc.

Orca pass, sick days, semi-weekly bag of coffee

They offered health insurance that I couldn’t afford on my wages.

PTO, Health insurance, dental

Well, pretty much all of the above

Certified Bar Professional

Paid time off, health insurance, unlimited bus pass, profit sharing, annual coffee farm trip

Kings Peak Coffee Roasters

Seattle Coffee Works (Capitol Hill)

“Coffee Bar Professional”

PTO (2hrs/pay period), health insurance, Orca Cards, profit sharing

Coffee Bar Professional/Barista

Paid time off, medical and dental, 401k (not matching)

I’m the owner of the cafe, so I do not offer myself benefits. My staff gets 2 weeks PTO and paid holidays.

13/hour, with ~6/hour of tips

14/hour, with 6.5-7/hour in tips

Left same year because of wage theft.

$10-20 for 7.5 hour shift at Broadcast

NONE other than Washington state requirements

Approx 6 days pto per year, health insurance, reduced cost orca card, weekly free coffee

PTO, Health, bereavement, coffee bags weekly

was offered $12 negotiated to 13.50, which is the highest end of pay scale other than the owner/manager/ who is in competition with regular employees for shifts and tips but makes at least $20/hr. Her family owns the building, she owns the business, but regularly splits tips, the odd amount ALWAYS goes to her, even $0.01.

paid time off and health insurance

Paid time off, wellness reimbursement, pre-tax spending benefits, 401k match, health and dental insurance.

General Porpoise Laurelhurst

10% service charge per transaction

Health Insurance, 401k, dental

Paid time off, health insurance buy-in

health insurance. sick days.

Health insurance, paid time off, vacation hours

Insurance, 401k match, sick time

Health Insurance (paid by employees)

Minimum wage at the time.

PTO, Heath, Paid professional advancement (ie SCA, roaster guild)

Health insurance 80% co pay
401K

401k for full time employees after 1.5 yrs of work

Cherry Street Coffee at Seattle University

dental insurance is given right away, health benefits after a full year of employment. No time off offered other than the required 1 hour of sick time per 40 hours worked. Sick outs are pretty easy to call for but you have to work an “ on call” shift in the next week or two to make up for it.

Bon Appetite Management - Amazon Campus

Health, PTO, easy to use sick time, holiday pay

General manager to training specialist

37k year - head trainer for 60 locations

Full benefits- company paid 70%

Production Roaster (really just production work)

Minimal PTO, 2 holidays, my birthday off (if I request it), the company’s birthday off.

Two coffee shops in portland

Health, dental, eye insurance for full-time emoyees. Some paid time off.

Lead Prep/Master Barista

Cherry Street Coffee House

HAHHAAHAAHA like 2 dollars a day?

PTO, 401k, health insurance, college reimbursement

Barista/Event Coordinator/Trainer

I left because I needed a better, more regular wage and insurance

Wholesale/Retail Barista Trainer

Subsidized transportation. Shift meal

Starbucks Ballard Drive Thru

8.50 (in Florida) somewhere around $16 after moving to Seattle in 2016

not sure of daily, but around $30-40 per week

health insurance, PTO, paid sick time, EAP

P.T.O., in store discounts, monthly meal stipend

PTO, Health, Hyatt Travel Benefit

Low end health insurance, 1hr sick time for every 50 worked

Roastery Operations Manager

PTO, Health & Dental Insurance

Health insurance, vision, dental

Cherry Street Coffee House

Dental and health after 1 year but less than 20 people company wide (of 90 or so employees) were there more than a year. PTO was state mandated Sick & Family leave

PTO, pre tax medical payments, comp.’d food, paid parental leave, outside position training.

Left 6 months after starting (2019)