worker cooperative bakery
Arizmendi Bakery
Industry Food
A worker cooperative bakery selling bread, pastries, and pizza, tied to the Arizmendi network and democratic member-worker control. Arizmendi 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: Individual member co-ops should be scored separately from their cooperative network.
Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
Final Score
59* A - Good
A* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
Small business context
This entry is classified as a small business using observable scale signals: independent control, local or limited operations, and no evidence of public-company or national-chain scale. The small-business calibration keeps the ordinary rubric but reads evidence at person scale: living-wage pricing is not extraction by itself, while worker and contractor treatment, owner surplus, transparency, advertising pressure, dissent tolerance, and recourse matter more. Harm, toxicity, surveillance, labor, coercion, opacity, and hidden-parent penalties are not relaxed.
Applied cap: No structure cap
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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
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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10 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Arizmendi Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative bakery. Linked evidence
|
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
|
9 / 10 |
Arizmendi Bakery identifies as a worker-owned cooperative bakery, aligning individual bakery governance with the broader Arizmendi cooperative model. |
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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8 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Arizmendi Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative bakery. |
Labor Sovereignty
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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.
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7 / 7 | |
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 Arizmendi Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative bakery. |
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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6 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Arizmendi Bakery as a worker-owned cooperative bakery. |
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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4 / 5 |
Arizmendi Bakery identifies with the Arizmendi cooperative model while operating as an individual member bakery. |
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Arizmendi Bakery identifies with the Arizmendi cooperative model while operating as an individual member bakery. |
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Arizmendi Bakery identifies with the Arizmendi cooperative model while operating as an individual member bakery. Linked evidence
|
Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
High-Carbon Products
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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.
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-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 81/100
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
Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
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Claims and Sources
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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Arizmendi Bakery describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative bakery.
- Arizmendi Bakery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2Arizmendi Bakery identifies as a worker-owned cooperative bakery, aligning individual bakery governance with the broader Arizmendi cooperative model.
- Arizmendi Bakery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
3Arizmendi Bakery identifies as a worker-owned cooperative whose mission includes financially supporting worker-owners.
- Arizmendi Bakery mission statementGeneral web source · 58%
4Arizmendi Bakery's mission says it operates democratically so each worker-owner has agency in the cooperative.
- Arizmendi Bakery mission statementGeneral web source · 58%
5Arizmendi Bakery is part of an association built from the Cheese Board model to develop democratic worker-owned bakeries, extending some cooperative infrastructure beyond a single shop.
- Arizmendi Association aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
- Arizmendi Bakery mission statementGeneral web source · 58%
6Arizmendi Bakery links its mission to a sustainable workplace and financial support for worker-owners, tying business risk to the people operating the bakery.
- Arizmendi Bakery mission statementGeneral web source · 58%
7Arizmendi Bakery identifies with the Arizmendi cooperative model while operating as an individual member bakery.
- Arizmendi Bakery homepageGeneral web source · 58%
8Arizmendi Bakery sells bakery products through a democratically organized worker cooperative rather than conventional food-service ownership.
- Arizmendi Bakery mission statementGeneral web source · 58%
9Arizmendi Bakery's public materials identify a worker-owned bakery focused on sustaining the workplace and cooperative members.
- Arizmendi Bakery mission statementGeneral web source · 58%
10Arizmendi Bakery has lower-carbon food with residual exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A worker cooperative bakery selling bread, pastries, and pizza, tied to the Arizmendi network and democratic member-worker control. Arizmendi Bakery scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance…
- Arizmendi Bakery public siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Our World in Data: Environmental Impacts of Food ProductionGeneral web source · 58%
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