vegetarian Seattle restaurant
Cafe Flora
Industry Food
A long-running Seattle vegetarian restaurant whose menu centers Pacific Northwest produce and broad vegan-friendly access. It is a strong plant-forward option, but its private restaurant structure keeps it below cooperative food businesses.
Why this matters: Cafe Flora is a local calibration point for vegetarian restaurants that are genuinely useful without being structurally democratic.
Letter grade B Qualified Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
Final Score
43* B - Qualified
B* 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: Small-business calibration cap: medium formal ownership/governance can reach B when person-scale evidence supports the ordinary axes
Vegetarian badge
Cafe Flora publicly describes itself as a vegetarian restaurant. The vegetarian badge is informational; it does not directly change ownership, labor, price, toxicity, or governance scoring.
Evidence: [7]
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Evaluation Overview
B - Qualified
The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Extraction6/10
- Loss-Bearing Fidelity5/7
- Product Integrity5/5
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
- Linked claims6
- Direct axis claims6
- Coverage5/11
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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4 / 10 |
Cafe Flora is operated through Flora Restaurant Group as a long-running Seattle vegetarian restaurant; reviewed linked public materials do not show worker, customer, or cooperative ownership. Linked evidence
|
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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4 / 10 |
Cafe Flora is operated through Flora Restaurant Group as a long-running Seattle vegetarian restaurant; reviewed linked public materials do not show worker, customer, or cooperative ownership. Linked evidence
|
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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6 / 10 |
Cafe Flora says it has been a Seattle institution for over 30 years, serves vegetarian cuisine, sources from many Washington farmers, and accommodates dietary needs. Linked evidence
|
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.
|
4 / 7 |
Cafe Flora is operated through Flora Restaurant Group as a long-running Seattle vegetarian restaurant; reviewed linked public materials do not show worker, customer, or cooperative ownership. Linked evidence
|
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
|
4 / 7 |
Flora Restaurant Group describes a mission to build community-focused vegetarian eateries, cafes, and bakeries that model sustainable business practices. Linked evidence
|
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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5 / 7 |
Flora Restaurant Group describes a mission to build community-focused vegetarian eateries, cafes, and bakeries that model sustainable business practices. Linked evidence
|
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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4 / 5 |
Cafe Flora says it has been a Seattle institution for over 30 years, serves vegetarian cuisine, sources from many Washington farmers, and accommodates dietary needs. |
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Cafe Flora says it has been a Seattle institution for over 30 years, serves vegetarian cuisine, sources from many Washington farmers, and accommodates dietary needs. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Cafe Flora is operated through Flora Restaurant Group as a long-running Seattle vegetarian restaurant; reviewed linked public materials do not show worker, customer, or cooperative ownership. Linked evidence
|
Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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1 / 3 |
Cafe Flora earns limited Good Deal credit because it provides long-running vegetarian restaurant access using Washington-farm sourcing rather than a meat-centered default. |
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate
cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency,
especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or
individualized pricing are normal.
|
1 / 3 |
Cafe Flora publishes menus and ordering information for its vegetarian restaurant service. |
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 67/100
6 verified linked claims 6 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 5/11 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 14/20
6 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
6 direct claims across 11 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 5/10
5/11 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
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reviewer authority.
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.1Cafe Flora is operated through Flora Restaurant Group as a long-running Seattle vegetarian restaurant; reviewed public materials do not show worker, customer, or cooperative ownership.
- Cafe Flora official pageGeneral web source · 58%
2Flora Restaurant Group describes a mission to build community-focused vegetarian eateries, cafes, and bakeries that model sustainable business practices.
- Flora Restaurant Group event packetGeneral web source · 58%
3Cafe Flora says it has been a Seattle institution for over 30 years, serves vegetarian cuisine, sources from many Washington farmers, and accommodates dietary needs.
- Cafe Flora official pageGeneral web source · 58%
5Cafe Flora earns limited Good Deal credit because it provides long-running vegetarian restaurant access using Washington-farm sourcing rather than a meat-centered default.
- Cafe Flora official pageGeneral web source · 58%
7Cafe Flora publicly describes itself as a vegetarian restaurant.
- Cafe FloraGeneral web source · 58%
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Added a source-backed tentative evaluation during the vegan and vegetarian restaurant/business expansion pass.