Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sector: Food and Beverage
Founded: 1995
Employee owned since: 2025
Number of employees at the time of transition: 5
Support from: Nexus Community Partners, Shared Capital Cooperative
From the company
- https://maydaycafe.coop/
- https://maydaycafe.coop/about-1
- GiveButter – Help May Day Cafe become a worker co-op
- GiveButter – Help the May Day Cafe Workers Cooperative Sustain and Thrive
Learn more
- Minneculture – Cooperative and Community at May Day Cafe (2026) audio
- MPR – Croissants and roses: The May Day Cafe reopens as a worker cooperative (2025), video
- City of Minneapolis – Great Streets Gap Financing Loan to May Day Café (2025)
- FOX9 – May Day Cafe reopens in Minneapolis as worker-owned cooperative (2025) video
- KARE – May Day Cafe in Minneapolis reopens as a co-op (2025)
- Longfellow Nokomis Messenger – Two co-ops, same block (2025) audio
- WCCO – Popular south Minneapolis café reopens as a worker co-op (2025) video
- The Southerner – Loving May Day—a new era arises for Powderhorn’s beloved counterculture cafe (2024)
- Racket – ‘Everything is Possible’: Inside the Ambitious Plan to Transform May Day Cafe Into a Worker-Owned Co-op (2024)
- The Alley Newsletter – 5 Worker-Cooperative Owners Announce May Day Cafe Open Again! (2024)
- Bring me the News – May Day Cafe staff to host block party as a fundraiser to purchase the Minneapolis restaurant (2024)
- Minnesota Star Tribune – Workers at Minneapolis’ May Day Cafe are raising money to buy it as a co-op (2024)
- Public News Service – Worker-owned cooperative movement finds footing in MN (2024)
Employee Owned Small Businesses Supported by Nexus Community Partners
Employee Owned Small Businesses Supported by Shared Capital Cooperative
