Cafe Euphoria is a community space, and a trans visibility project, and worker owned cooperative. We’re designed to be a safe haven and radical workplace. The progressive national magazine, Yes! Magazine, ran a feature about us entitled, “The Cafe That’s Upending Capitalism.” While this is pure hyperbole — no single cafe is going to overturn our society’s dominant institution — our mission and values define us as a different sort of business. We are:

• A worker owned cooperative
• A place where everyone makes the same wage–currently $18/hr
• We aspire to reach $24,000/yr in 1986 dollars (around $67k/yr, or $34/hr)
• We offer a 3:1 sliding scale (2:1 on most merchandise)

At Cafe Euphoria, everyone who makes our aspirational income (again, $24k in 1986 dollars) is asked to pay full price. Anyone who makes less is invited to pay the middle, 2/3rds price. And we offer a Solidarity Price (1/3 price) intended primarily for members of the transgender and gender non-conforming community who can’t afford to pay the middle price. (Students are asked to go with their family’s income, since many of our staff haven’t had the chance to go to college, and we ask folks to consider their relative privilege.) But it’s all self-declared, with no explanation necessary.