We do this every year to boost sales for Dining Out for Life. 25% of our sales will be donated to support people with HIV

SOOOO many good restaurants participating: diningoutforlifemn.org

So yeah, Tax Day sucked. Speak truth and keep taking care of each other in every way you can. 🩵

Please don't misunderstand me. I’m proud to pay my fair share to support public schools, plowed roads, healthcare for those who need, etc. But it's bullshit that any of those $$ should go towards further benefiting the ultra wealthy or disappearing people to concentration camps in other countries.

Tax Day is hard for small businesses - we work SO hard and politicians talk about us all the time and yet...WE are the ones subsidizing Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. And that's not hyperbole. That is how our tax system is currently designed. Those bros paid nothing and we had to pay thousands.

My dad passed away almost seven years ago and I don't think he contemplated that my tax dollars would be subsidizing asshole oligarchs sending people to space for media attention.

Miigwech for testifying!

We truly hope you will keep visiting our shop and supporting us how you can as we weather whatever comes next. It is a very stressful time to be a small business but we are heartened by our community every single day. Thanks in advance for your patience and caring. 💙

Honesty is one of our values. We won't raise our prices until forced to. We are doing our best to stock up on our core ingredients before costs increase but there is just so much uncertainty. Some ingredients may no longer be available at all as we move forward; we just don't know.

The pending tariffs and economic instability caused by the Trump-Musk regime will very likely force us to raise prices. Wholesale costs of coffee, tea and many other items already increased at the beginning of 2025, and the Trump Tariffs will impact nearly everything even further.

Taking allllll of this into account, we set our prices as low as we possibly can without sacrificing financial stability (a LOT of small businesses do not even survive the first year).

We review what other businesses near us are charging. However, we often cannot match their prices because (1) we use better quality ingredients, (2) we source locally when we can, (3) composting is more expensive, (4) we pay decent wages, and (5) landlords raise the rent every year.

But that's not all that goes into getting a delicious vanilla latte in your hands. We also pay wages, rent, utilities, insurance, benefits, licenses - plus maintaining a clean, functional and comfortable space (furniture, decorations, equipment, repairs, etc.).

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