worker-owned bakery
Alvarado Street Bakery
Industry Food
A worker-owned bakery selling organic breads and baked goods, with employee ownership, food-production labor control, and grocery distribution. Alvarado Street Bakery scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.
Why this matters: Worker-owned food production is a useful structural contrast to large food companies.
Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from High-Carbon Products.
Strengths
- Ownership10/10
- Governance9/10
- Extraction8/10
Penalties
- High-Carbon Products-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
- Linked claims10
- Direct axis claims10
- Coverage10/10
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
|
10 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Alvarado Street Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative. Linked evidence
|
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
|
9 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Alvarado Street Bakery as a 100 percent employee-owned cooperative, supporting worker-centered governance rather than investor control. |
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
|
8 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Alvarado Street Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
|
7 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Alvarado Street Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
|
6 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Alvarado Street Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
|
6 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Alvarado Street Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
|
4 / 5 |
Alvarado Street Bakery emphasizes organic sprouted-wheat bakery products. |
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
|
5 / 5 |
Alvarado Street Bakery emphasizes organic sprouted-wheat bakery products. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
|
5 / 5 |
Alvarado Street Bakery emphasizes organic sprouted-wheat bakery products. |
Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
High-Carbon Products
?
Core products, services, financing, or supply chains that materially
depend on fossil-fuel combustion, high-emissions transport, industrial
animal agriculture, meat, dairy, or other unusually carbon-intensive
activity. This is scored separately from general ecological harm so
ordinary consumers can see carbon-intensive product exposure directly.
Range: -10 to 0.
|
-1 |
The product category is food and agriculture, but the profile centers staples, produce, grains, beverages, or baked goods rather than meat or dairy. Linked evidence
|
Bonus Credits
No bonus credits applied in this version.
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
High 80/100
10 verified linked claims 10 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 10/10 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 17/20
10 verified linked claims
Source quality 11/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
10 direct claims across 10 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 10/10
10/10 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Alvarado Street Bakery describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative.
- Alvarado Street Bakery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2Alvarado Street Bakery describes itself as a 100 percent employee-owned cooperative, supporting worker-centered governance rather than investor control.
- Alvarado Street Bakery employee-owned co-opGeneral web source · 58%
3Alvarado Street Bakery describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative bakery, routing business value toward employee-owners.
- Alvarado Street Bakery employee-owned co-opGeneral web source · 58%
4Alvarado Street Bakery's employee-owned cooperative structure gives bakery workers an ownership stake in production.
- Alvarado Street Bakery employee-owned co-opGeneral web source · 58%
5Alvarado Street Bakery sells organic baked goods through a worker cooperative model, while the reviewed record does not show strong protections for people outside the workforce.
- Alvarado Street BakeryGeneral web source · 58%
- Alvarado Street Bakery employee-owned co-opGeneral web source · 58%
6Alvarado Street Bakery combines organic baked-goods production with worker ownership, bringing some labor and product responsibility inside the firm.
- Alvarado Street BakeryGeneral web source · 58%
- Alvarado Street Bakery employee-owned co-opGeneral web source · 58%
7Alvarado Street Bakery emphasizes organic sprouted-wheat bakery products.
- Alvarado Street Bakery homepageGeneral web source · 58%
8Alvarado Street Bakery distributes organic breads and baked goods as an employee-owned cooperative rather than a conventional investor-owned bakery brand.
- Alvarado Street BakeryGeneral web source · 58%
- Alvarado Street Bakery employee-owned co-opGeneral web source · 58%
9Alvarado Street Bakery has expanded grocery-distributed bakery products while preserving employee-owned cooperative identity.
- Alvarado Street BakeryGeneral web source · 58%
- Alvarado Street Bakery employee-owned co-opGeneral web source · 58%
10Alvarado Street Bakery has lower-carbon food with residual exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A worker-owned bakery selling organic breads and baked goods, with employee ownership, food-production labor control, and grocery distribution. Alvarado Street Bakery scores well because ownership is comparatively align…
- Alvarado Street Bakery public siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Our World in Data: Environmental Impacts of Food ProductionGeneral web source · 58%
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