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☕ Announcement ☕

At the end of June, we’ll be sunsetting the café and transitioning the space into a volunteer-run community center and kitchen.

To our friends and community:

After discussing internally as an organization over the past few weeks, we’ve decided to make some changes to the physical space at Panethnic Pourovers. First, we want to acknowledge the difficulties and hardships that this administration has put on our community, and on us as an organization. From cutting funding to essential resources to blatant racism and xenophobia against immigrant communities, it’s important now more than ever that we come together and be in community with one another.

As you know, we’ve cut our hours due to the limitations of having a volunteer-only staff running a café operation. Due to multiple factors, including our ability to reliably train potential café staff, we’ve decided to sunset café operations until further notice, and prioritize the community center aspect of our space. This doesn’t mean we won’t open up the café again in the future: but for now, we are repurposing it into a community kitchen, free for our community to use. This will also allow us to expand our hours and increase our volunteer base as café training will no longer be necessary. This also means we can stay open for longer hours — yay!

Over the next few weeks we’ll be restructuring the space to accommodate this community center feel moreso than operating like a food establishment. We’ll still always have coffee, tea, and other snacks available for free; but everything will be self-serve and we will no longer have a full service menu. Our fridges, freezers, and kitchen appliances will be open for community use.

We’re doing this right now because we know that our community needs access to a third space more consistently than access to a café once a week. We’ll still have coffee, tea, and a small limited self-serve menu available.

We’ll be closed until the last week of June to accommodate training our volunteer staff, rearranging the space, and gathering more resources for our community. Once we’re ready to go, we’ll make an update here and shoot out announcements on our socials and newsletters.

We’re excited to be in community with you again! 

If you’re interested in volunteering, fill out this form. Questions can be directed to hello@panethnicpourovers.org.

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