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Category: Food and Beverage

Le Voyeur – Olympia, WA

Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Olympia, Washington Number of employees: 6 Became […]

September 12, 2019December 3, 2019ESOP, Food and Beverage, Minnesota, News

Star Tribune – Chew on this: Hell’s Kitchen owners sell their restaurant to employees

From the Star Tribune Hell’s Kitchen, the Minneapolis restaurant known for irreverent […]

Rabble Rouser – Montpelier, VT

(Changed named in 2019 from Nutty Steph’s) Industry: Food and Beverage Location: […]

1149 Cooperative – Philadelphia, PA

Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Number of employees: 3 Became […]

Full Stop Filling Station – Louisville, KY

Industry: Food and Beverage, Energy Location: Louisville, Kentucky Number of employees: Became employee […]

Mujeres Emprendedoras Cooperative – Denver, CO

Location: Denver, Colorado Industry:  Food and Beverage Number of employees: 12 Became […]

Rock City Employee Cooperative – Rockland, ME

Rock City Employee Cooperative is a 25-worker café and roastery in Rockland, […]

3Cross Fermentation Cooperative- Worcester, MA

3Cross Fermentation Cooperative is a 3-employee worker cooperative brewery in Worcester, Massachusetts. The original owner […]

Niles Pie – Union City, CA

Niles Pie is a 10-employee worker cooperative bakery in Union City, CA. […]

A Slice of New York – Santa Clara, CA

Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Santa Clara, California Number of employees: 33 Became […]

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Popular Company Stories

  • The Brooklyn Packers – Brooklyn, NY

  • Metis Construction – Seattle, WA

  • A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative – Waltham, MA

  • New School of Montpelier – Montpelier, VT

  • Brooklyn Stone and Tile, Brooklyn NY

  • A Child’s Place – Queens, NY

  • ChiFresh Kitchen – Chicago, IL

  • Opportunity Threads – Morganton, NC

  • Earth Designs Cooperative – Rosendale, NY

  • Once Again Nut Butter – Nunda, NY

Popular Pages

  • Worker Cooperative LLCs

  • What are the Stages of a Transition to Employee Ownership for a Small Business?

  • How are Small Business Employee Ownership Transitions Financed?

  • How Does Small Business Employee Ownership Work?

  • How Do I Create an Ownership Culture Among Employees?

  • What is Small Business Employee Ownership?

  • What are the Benefits of Employee Ownership?

  • Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives

  • What are Some Examples of Employee Owned Small Businesses?

  • Which Small Business Sectors Have Concentrations of Employee Ownership?

Popular Places

  • California

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Popular Sectors

  • Farming

  • Food and Beverage

  • Manufacturing

  • Construction

  • Tech

  • Childcare

  • Health

  • Grocery

  • Cleaning

  • Landscaping

Becoming Employee Owned is an initiative of the Democracy at Work Institute.

Our mission is to expand the worker cooperative model to reach communities most directly affected by social and economic inequality, specifically people of color, recent immigrants, and low-­wage workforces. We are a movement-based think-and-do tank supporting worker cooperatives to grow to a scale that creates meaningful change in the economy.

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