Insurrection at Gorilla Coffee
We’d originally relegated this story to the Daily Links post, but it’s too good not to have its own post…Apparently one of the owners of the popular coffee spot Gorilla Coffee at 97 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope rubbed the employees the wrong way so they all banded together and quit en masse, throwing the…
We’d originally relegated this story to the Daily Links post, but it’s too good not to have its own post…Apparently one of the owners of the popular coffee spot Gorilla Coffee at 97 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope rubbed the employees the wrong way so they all banded together and quit en masse, throwing the Park Slope ecosystem into disequilibrium. Evidently there are all sorts of signs posted out front with a running he-said-she-said account of the problem. From a reader: “My husband said there was line outside the door of people just freaking out and totally in crisis over the lack of coffee. I have a feeling he was one of them because I was on the other line when he called to tell me this, and he told my secretary that it was an emergency.” We also hear that Gorilla addicts have been depleting supplies at neighboring stores to ride out the current crisis. We’d be mighty appreciative if someone could send in some photos of the storefront and posted screeds…
Entire Staff Quits Gorilla Coffee in Slope [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by bean_weaver
Am I missing something? Is there any reason these people can’t go across the street or next door or around the corner to any one of the 100,000 other coffee shops in the City? There’s only ONE place where they can buy their coffee?
I never understood the hype behind Gorilla. I think the coffee is average at best (with some blends much better). I suggest these folks cough up the $$ for a French press, a grinder and some beans from Porto Rico, Stumptown or Counter Culture and all will be right with their caffeine levels.
Anyway—sad story: Maybe the baristas were reading Zinn and Chomsky and had a group epiphany. Or from what I am reading this co-owner basically drove these people out, which is sad and pathetic for such a moneymaker like Gorilla.
Is it wrong to have bad feelings about all these people? The employees who don’t know how to just quit when they hate their boss like everyone else, the boss who sounds like a pill, the woman who calls her assistant a secretary in 2010.
By ch renter on April 13, 2010 9:47 AM
“This is my favorite story of the year so far. I wish I could convince my co-workers to walk off my current job en masse.”
Hear, hear!
NY Department of Labor is so pro-worker that I bet the Gorilla workers will be able to collect unemployment even though they quit.
this will drop Park Slope down a few spots on top hood list
This is my favorite story of the year so far. I wish I could convince my co-workers to walk off my current job en masse.
Must have been something really bad that the owner did to get the whole staff to act in unison. I liked the coffee in this joint but found the service and the volume of the music to be hard going.
no worries – word on the street is that counterculture coffee is opening up in may a few blocks down.
http://pourovernyc.com/2010/04/13/counterculture-coffee-coming-to-park-slope/