This business has closed.
Industry: Food and Beverage
Location: New York City, New York
Number of employees: 20
Became employee owned: 2006
From the company
- http://www.colorsrestaurantnyc.com/ (archived)
Books
- Jayaraman – Behind the Kitchen Door (book) (2013)
- Mamdouh and Sen – The Accidental American (book) (2008)
Learn more
- New York Daily News – Half-baked worker empowerment: What’s behind the closure of ROC United’s new restaurant (2020)
- New York Times – The Misadventures of an Idealistic Restaurant in Cut-Throat New York (2018)
- Eater – Inside COLORS, a Restaurant Changing Communities One Worker at a Time (2017)
- Yes Magazine – Colors in New York: A Restaurant Cooperative (2016)
- The Nation – Another Victory for Resistance: Restaurant Workers Win Settlement From Star Chef (2012)
- Brooklyn Rail – Windows of the World Workers Stay United (2011)
- Long Island Wins – At Restaurant Born After 9/11, Respect for Worker Rights (2011)
- NEDAP – Worker Cooperatives in New York City (video) (2009)
- Today – Former World Trade workers rebuild troubled eatery (2008)
- City Limits – Eatery Gets Burned In Labor Experiment (2007)
- Fordham – Colors and the Fordham Law Clinic (video) (2006)
- Washington Post – Trade Center Restaurant’s Workers Back in Business — This Time as Owners Colors’ Grand Opening Caps a Four-Year Struggle (2006)
- GEO – Raising Capital for Worker Cooperatives (2006)
- Go Upstate – Grieving restaurant workers bring dining’s ‘Colors’ to life (2006)
- Dollars and Sense – COLORS Restaurant: A new democratic worker-cooperative challenges the industry (2005)
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