Bluestone Lane is an overpriced cafe founded by millionaire brat Nick Stone. When I say overpriced I mean $15 for avocado toast. Nick Stone flaunts his wealth, the company’s billionaire investors and record setting sales but on March 1st all baristas will be getting a pay cut.
Currently cafe baristas receive guaranteed minimum of $22 per hour, made up of $14 an hour base pay, tips and then an additional top up to reach 22. Similarly, coffee shop baristas (who have more responsibility than cafe ones) make guaranteed $20 per hour with a base of $16.
It was recently discovered that corporate and management has been hiding the fact that they will be changing the pay to remove all guarantees and lowering the base pay of cafe baristas to ELEVEN DOLLARS AN HOUR. Our customers are majority privileged and wealthy, so they tip like shit. We will likely not make our current pay until Summer and even that is not certain.
This is coming on the heels of hour cuts that left full time employees, who signed forms saying they would not pursue further employment because they are full time, with 20 hour work weeks. I know hard workers who are living in their cars in part because of these cuts and this pay cut has the potential to devastate us. Many of us are already struggling to make NYC rent.
When this plan to cut pay was leaked to employees, we were furious , but the gears to unionization are turning too slowly. If you can spare five seconds, please blast them on socials or find somewhere else to buy coffee. CEO’s LinkedIn