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The story behind white electric coffee's move to a cooperative model

By Rhode Island Monthly  
   July 22, 2021

Wedged between Frog and Toad and New Urban Arts on Westminster Street, White Electric Coffee has undergone a metamorphosis. The cafe, which has been slinging lattes, espresso and the signature “Buzzo” (housemade coffee milk) since 2000, is the first cafe in Rhode Island to transition to a unionized worker-owned cooperative business model.

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