On Sunday, it was the final chance for residents in Minnesota to get their favored $8 coffee to go along with a $16 bacon-egg-cheese breakfast sandwich. Café Cerés is (was) a local chain of upper-end coffee shops in the metroplex that was favored by the locals, but April 13 saw the chain closing its doors. The business was brought to an end not by a rough economy but by its workers.
Last fall, the employees at the four locations voted to unionize. What you will see on display is a common theme found in the latest generation of workers, where the staff displays an overinflated sense of value and power. Forgetting they are low-skilled workers in the service industry, you see on display the fractured mindset of those who elevate their position from coffee hustlers to being regarded as “baristas.” You can dress up the title with any preferred…
