worker cooperative
Cheese Board Collective
Industry Food
A worker cooperative bakery, cheese shop, and pizzeria with collective governance, durable local production, and shared workplace control. Cheese Board Collective scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.
Why this matters: Long-running worker co-ops can anchor the high end of the rubric.
Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Ownership10/10
- Governance9/10
- Extraction8/10
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
- Linked claims9
- Direct axis claims9
- Coverage9/9
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 Cheese Board Collective as a worker-owned collective. Linked evidence
|
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
|
9 / 10 |
Cheese Board Collective's worker-owned collective identity supports direct democratic workplace governance rather than founder, family, or investor control. |
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
|
8 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Cheese Board Collective as a worker-owned collective. |
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 Cheese Board Collective as a worker-owned collective. |
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
|
6 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Cheese Board Collective as a worker-owned collective. |
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
|
6 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Cheese Board Collective as a worker-owned collective. |
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
|
4 / 5 |
Cheese Board Collective operates a bakery, cheese shop, and pizzeria as a long-running cooperative food business. Linked evidence |
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
|
5 / 5 |
Cheese Board Collective operates a bakery, cheese shop, and pizzeria as a long-running cooperative food business. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
|
5 / 5 |
Cheese Board Collective operates a bakery, cheese shop, and pizzeria as a long-running cooperative food business. |
Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
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 83/100
9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/9 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 18/20
9 verified linked claims
Source quality 12/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
9 direct claims across 9 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
9/9 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.1Cheese Board Collective describes itself as a worker-owned collective.
- Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2Cheese Board Collective's worker-owned collective identity supports direct democratic workplace governance rather than founder, family, or investor control.
- Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
3The Cheese Board Collective states that the original owners sold the business to employees in 1971 and created a 100 percent worker-owned business.
- The Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
4The Cheese Board Collective describes itself as worker owned and operated, with decisions made through shift or monthly meetings.
- The Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
5The Cheese Board Collective links worker ownership to a belief in democratic society, while the reviewed record is primarily about current worker-owners and customers.
- The Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
6The Cheese Board Collective's long-running worker ownership brings operational risk and benefit closer to bakery, cheese, and pizzeria workers.
- The Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
7Cheese Board Collective operates a bakery, cheese shop, and pizzeria as a long-running cooperative food business.
- Cheese Board Collective homepageGeneral web source · 58%
8The Cheese Board Collective sells cheese, baked goods, and pizza through a worker-owned collective rather than a conventional restaurant or grocery model.
- The Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
9The Cheese Board Collective has grown its products and Berkeley storefront presence while preserving worker-owned collective identity since 1971.
- The Cheese Board Collective aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
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