Woke coffee shop gets taken down by even more woke staff

| July 6, 2022

The Libs of Tik Tok brings us a funny tale in which a woke coffee shop, pushing equity, got taken down as the gentrifying racist Bourgeoisie by their even more woke staff. Their list of “demands” is the best. Then, instead of telling these uppity employees to go find work elsewhere, they give into their demands. Clown. World.

From Libs of Tik Tok;

Queer-owned business shut down by employees for not being woke enough

Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt. The cafe was owned by Kate Egghart and Sonam Parikh, two queer activists who started Mina’s in an effort to create an inclusive coffee shop. However, their employees have claimed Egghart and Parikh are anti-black and “gentrifiers.” Gentrifier is a woke term used to describe those who purposely contribute to the displacement of low-income families. Mina’s World was located just around the corner from Malcolm X Park in Philadelphia and employed mostly minority workers.

Ironically— prior to the allegations from employees—Parikh spoke to Bon Appetit about the opening of Mina’s World and said when she worked at different coffee shops, “white ownership neglected to protect their Black and trans employees. I knew there needed to be a space where you could have an amazingly made cup of coffee that’s not whitewashed.”

Fast forward two years and employees of Mina’s World have put out a public statement where they claimed they were suffering from a plethora of “systemic” woes as a result of the alleged gentrification including “employer opposition” and “anti-blackness.”

Employees expanded on these woes in their public “List of Grievances” which is basically a bunch of empty buzzwords to generate outrage and included no substantial evidence to back up their claims.

As if it couldn’t get any worse, the employees also demanded that the owners “redistribute the business” to them.

Egghart and Parikh responded to their employees’ demands in a hostage-style video in which they repeatedly apologized for being gentrifiers. Egghart spoke next to Parikh saying, “We’re going live as part of a radical accountability process. We’re complicit in the gentrification and anti-blackness on 52nd Street. We put our community at risk with our presence as well as our workers.”

The two owners agreed to attempt to hand over ownership of Mina’s saying, “With the guidance of the workers and Black and Brown Workers Collective, we’re trying to raise funds to buy the business and turn it over to our staff.”

The hostile takeover quickly backfired on the woke employees as the owner of the building where Mina’s World is housed listed the property for sale.

Despite the owners of Mina’s World being radically progressive, with Philly Eats even calling the cafe a “queer haven,” Egghart and Parikh were still cannibalized by the woke mob and Mina’s World has officially closed its doors for good this week.

Egghart and Parikh’s surrender to the outrage shows a point proven again and again— no matter how many times you bend the knee to the mob, you will never be able to adhere to their insatiable standards for progressive enlightenment. No matter how much of an “ally” you are, you will never be safe from becoming just another trophy head on the wall of wokeism.

Category: "Teh Stoopid", Liberals suck, SJW Idiocy

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The Stranger

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Old tanker

My thought exactly. Well said. And you beat me to it.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Re-distribute the business? We’re closing. How well can you re-distribute zero? Have fun.

Daisy Cutter

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“I’m a soldier in the war on poverty.”

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E-4 Mafia For Life

They did the unthinkable; they divided by Zero…

The Stranger

Listen, you…Chuck Norris can divide by zero!

A Proud Infidel®™

Chuck Norris ordered a Big Mac at KFC and got it!

Hack Stone

Re-distribution resulted in everyone owning 100% of nothing. But they got it boy, that makes them the winner!

The Stranger

Everyone is Tiger Man McCool!

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

I remember my father telling me a story of “long ago”…..a man had a business in a small town, kept the town well employed, and paid well enough. A union came in and wanted to unionize the workers. The workers all agreed. So the union and workers then went to the owner with a list of demands (higher this & that, more of the other). The owner asks, “haven’t I treated you well over the years? this what you’all really want?” Unionized employees all say “AYE!” Owner then promptly retires and shuts down the plant and moves it to Somewhere Else & sells off the equipment. Bye-bye plant, employment, wages, benefits.

The same thing happened in Frantic City with one of Trump’s casinos. He sold it off, and the casino workers told the new owner if he did not meet their demands, they would strike. He said if they strike, he would close the casino. They went on strike. He closed the casino. You should have heard them bitching about losing their jobs.

Skivvy Stacker

And to the benefit of those employees, they no longer have jobs.
Congratulations Brown And Darker Shaded Workers Collective and Hot Dog Stand; you’ve done it again.

5JC

Sounds like things are running smooth as butter down on Animal Farm.

Sapper3307

Nope!

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Commissioner Wretched

Hey, I think I went to high school with this guy …

KoB

Looks more like your prom date to me, CW.

Commissioner Wretched

 😂  😆 

Anonymous

“D’oh!” –Homer Simpson

Mustang Major

Was the coffee any good?

Anonymous

Doesn’t matter in the “woke” world of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and “stakeholder capitalism” where supply, demand and making a profit aren’t a concern!

“…the wildest hippie and the sternest member of the Politburo shared the same daydream, the daydream that underlies all Marxism: that a thing might be somehow worth other than what people will give for it. This is just not true. And any system that bases itself on such a will-o’-the-wisp is bound to fail. Communes don’t work. Cuba doesn’t either.” –P.J. O’Rourke

26Limabeans

Juan Valdez’s burro brays.

SFC D

He’s laughing. Because he and Juan still have jobs.

The Stranger

You mean AOC has a brother?!

Martinjmpr

They’d likely answer that the very idea of “good coffee” is a racist, sexist and homophobic concept. Who’s to say that coffee has to “taste good” anyway?  😜 

Waiting for some enterprising veteran to open a new coffee shop called “The TOC” [Tactical Operations Center for those of you that don’t speak Army.] No tables, just a bunch of folding metal chairs, all of which are damaged in some way. Instead of music, there will be a nonstop drone of generators sprinkled with incomprehensible radio noise. Coffee will be served out of a percolator that is filled on Monday and then kept plugged in throughout the week, with coffee and water being added at random intervals until the entire pot is filled with a black concentration of paint remover. Now THAT would be a coffee shop!  😂 

26Limabeans

Instead of donuts have the bread puck from a B1 unit.

SFC D

SOS on holidays and special occasions. Biscuits and gravy may be substituted.

RGR 4-78

Don’t forget a stylish basket full of John Wayne bars on the counter next to the cash register.

rgr769

John Wayne bars, the confection so gross the government wouldn’t even put them in a C-rat meal.

rgr769

Ahh, the little can with a white, bread-like hockey puck. In over ten years of eating C-rats, I can’t recall seeing anyone eating one of those.

SFC D

I’m assuming it will not be a “gun free” zone? More of a “weapons free” zone? 😉

26Limabeans

Long guns checked into the rack by the door.
Sidearms may be retained while seated.

jeff LPH 3 63-66

When I WOKE Up This Morning,- Bop Chords 1957 on the Holiday label

MTFAO

Self serve on the coffee and a crusty old E7-E9 as the cashier. Then when some hipster soy boy with a man bun walks in looking for a latte watch the sparks fly.

SFC D

Kinda like an old western movie when a sheepherder walks into the saloon…

SFC D

I’m picturing a trophy wall… man buns mounted on plaques, with the date it was taken.

Tom D

I’d Love that job…

The Stranger

You know, my wife was looking for an income-generating opportunity. This just might be it. Include a bottle of random whiskey in the bottom right-hand drawer of a shitty, government issued desk and we may have something. Also, a bunch of mis-matched, coffee-stained mugs.

rgr1480

But serve Black Rifle Coffee.

Claw

Well, maybe I can help the wife out with a few stock numbers to get things started:

7105-269-8463 Chair, Folding, Gray w/o Arms
7310-144-4707 Percolator, 30 Cup, 115v
7110-656-1110 Desk, Field, w/Folding Stool
8965-107-3727 Whisky, Straight, 50% Alcohol
8955-272-1922 Roasted Coffee
8465-242-7843 Cup, Canteen, M1910 Original Blade Handle Style, (not with butterfly handle)/smile

RGR 4-78

For the convivence of the wait staff the tables could be marked, S-1, S-2, S-3 etc.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

How does the place stay in business? Don’t communists depend on someone else to pay?

Hack Stone

Do you know the difference between capitalism and communism?

Under capitalism, man exploits man.

Under communism, it is the other way around.

SFC D
Anonymous

Just like the messhall!

USMC Steve

Trendy hip homos screwed over by their mental midget non workers. I love it. but it leaves me no one to root for.

Daisy Cutter

I too am conflicted. There are a lot of competing emotions swirling around and banging into each other like ping pong balls in a Bingo machine. I’m still hoping for clarity as the one I should focus on gets sucked up the tube.

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pookysgirl, WC wife

The building owner who put the shop up for sale and ended this nonsense. That’s who I’m rooting for.

Hack Stone

He probably got stiffed on rent, and the “new owners” will rip out all of the copper wiring.

Anonymous

Truly the proverbial circular firing squad.

Hack Stone

Kind of like choosing sides in the Iran – Iraq War.

KoB

Go woke, go broke. Doncha just love it when they consume their own?

SFC D

Kinda like that mythical snake that bites it’s own tail and consumes itself.

A Proud Infidel®™

BWUUUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

I couldn’t make shit like that up if I tried! I love watching moonbats cannibalize each other, they say they’re going to start a revolution while at least 95% of them can’t even start a lawnmower!

Both sides went full snowflake.
Never go full snowflake.

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jeff LPH 3 63-66

I just love it, this shit can’t get any better

tshe

To create an oversimplification, there are basically two kinds of people in this world – the Constructionists, that favor building things that are either material in nature or based on concepts, rules and guidance that we can all get along as a whole. Then, there are the Destructionalists, who like to tear down convention believing that they and others will benefit from a new order. Oddly enough, just like the carnivore depends on the plant eater for survival, the Destructionalists would not exist without the Constructionalists.

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President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Sounds like Ayn Rand’s “creators” and “looters” (Atlas Shrugged”.

I agree.

E-4 Mafia For Life

Her books were every bit as prophetic as 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World.

2banana

A useful idiot never thinks they are a useful idiot.

Fyrfighter

Or they don’t realize that their usefulness has an expiration date.. (see also cindy sheehan)

Thunderstixx

Homer Simpson could have never written this script…
Stupid does once again on display at a closed up business in a gentrified area of America !!!

Fyrfighter

How dare they gentrify an area! They should leave it to the feral residents and the destruction they apparently enjoy!

Hack Stone

African Americans moving into a predominantly white neighborhood = Good.

White people moving into a predominantly African American neighborhood = Bad.

Any questions?

NotBuying It

Looks like Egghart’s mommy owns the building and was subsidizing her little girl’s coffee shop. Apparently, enough was enough and mommy decided to shut down the gravy train. Unfortunately, I suspect neither Egghart or Parikh will learn anything from this and blame their failure on the patriarchy, gentrification, systemic racism, homophobia, etc. etc.

A Proud Infidel®™

NOTHING is ever a liberal’s fault, just ask one. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to blame Donald Trump!

NDHoosier

It’s just more…”evidence”…for the House January 6 ClusterfuckCommittee

MI Ranger

Wokeism in this case sounds an awful lot like Communism. They as the owners were clearing taking more from the business than the employees, and therefore it needed to be handed over to the “staff” to run as a Co-Op…however as in most Communist undertakings they have no understanding of how to actually run the shop, nor how much it actually cost to run it and therefore run it in to the ground without profit…and close!

Anonymous

True that.

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Anonymous

Now this is “stakeholder” whatever, etc. that “woke” businesses (like Disney) believe their employees and customers demand because somebody “progressive” (no agenda there, /sarc) told ’em so.
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MSG Eric

Except of course in Islamic countries…

CDR D

“No man survives
When freedom fails.
The best men rot in filthy jails;
And they who cried: ‘Appease, Appease!’
Are hanged by those they tried to please.”  

~Hiram Mann

NDHoosier

The left destroys everything it touches. Everything. We can only hope they keep touching each other.

Oh wait, they do that already….

Anonymous

Especially with little kids (plus grooming drag shows) they demand we celebrate now.

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Roh-Dog

See: monkeypox

Anonymous

They want to have mask and testing hysteria for that now, too.

Green Thumb

I wonder if the employees drink it black?

If you put cream, sugar, or whatevr in the coffee it changes its color.

Is that not racist?

Fyrfighter

Ahh, the shitty of brotherly (sisterly?) love… It’s a great place to be FROM

Dave Byron

Now that’s FUUUNY!!

Name edited to protect PII.
AW1

RCAF-CHAIRBORNE

Haaahaaa! I just love Woke Blue on Blue casualties 🤣

A Proud Infidel®™

The more woke you go, the more broke you go!

ChipNASA

Redistribute THIS

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Deckie

When a list of grievances contains an item followed by “etc etc” you know you’re dealing with fucking idiots.

Either lay it all out or shove it right back up your asses….

Hack Stone

Hack Stone likes his coffee like he likes his woman, big, black and indignant.

Green Thumb

Some dudes pay good money for that…..

Hack Stone

Hack Stone misses the days when buying a cup of coffee was just buying a cup of coffee, and not some show of solidarity with the downtrodden. Coffee shops, especially those with a “social message”, sure know how to scam the white liberals, charging $7.00 or more for a product that costs the owner $0.30 to brew.

Hack Stone

So, they don’t sell “conflict free” coffee?

Deckie

I like mine strong, black and full of conflict.

Green Thumb

Makes you shit as well after a long night of drinking.

Have a smoke or a fat dip, two cups of Army coffee and clean it out before the 12/18 miler.

Clean it out. Don’t want to have gut bubbles half way through….

SFC D

I like my coffee as black as my soul.

poetrooper

Reminds ol” Poe of that downhome warning his ol’ grandpa was fond of, “Give ’em an inch, lil’ Poe, and fer damned sure certain, they gonna try to take a mile,” demonstrated in all its glorious real-life application.

Let’s hope the Democrats never learn the lesson… 😜 

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Forrest Bondurant

So at the end of the day, the owner of the property sold off the land where the coffee shop was. Friggin’ awesome!

Let the gentrification begin!

(Here’s another article about the closure…)

Following Weeks of Public Debate, West Philly Coffee Shop Mina’s World Has Closed – Eater Philly