worker-owned cooperative cafe
La Milpa Cafe
Industry Food
A worker-owned cafe cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana, selling coffee, pastries, and fresh food under member control. La Milpa Cafe scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.
Why this matters: A cafe run as a migrant-women worker cooperative is a concrete alternative to extractive service work.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
Final Score
56* 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; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.
Strengths
- Ownership10/10
- Governance8/10
- Extraction8/10
Penalties
- No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
- Linked claims3
- Direct axis claims3
- Coverage3/9
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 |
La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana. Linked evidence
|
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
|
8 / 10 |
La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana. Linked evidence
|
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
|
8 / 10 |
La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana. Linked evidence
|
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.
|
7 / 7 |
La Milpa Cafe says the cooperative promotes economic autonomy for its members and access to fresh and healthy food. Linked evidence
|
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
|
5 / 7 |
La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana. Linked evidence
|
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 |
La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana. Linked evidence
|
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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4 / 5 |
La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana. Linked evidence
|
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
La Milpa Cafe operates as a cafe and community space offering coffee, pastries, and fresh healthy food. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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3 / 5 |
La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana. Linked evidence
|
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.
Medium 68/100
3 verified linked claims 3 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 3/9 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 20/20
3 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 6/18
3 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 3/10
3/9 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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Claims and Sources
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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1La Colmena describes La Milpa Cafe as a worker-owned cooperative formed by migrant women in Santa Ana.
- La Colmena: La Milpa CafeGeneral web source · 58%
2La Milpa Cafe says the cooperative promotes economic autonomy for its members and access to fresh and healthy food.
- La Colmena: La Milpa CafeGeneral web source · 58%
3La Milpa Cafe operates as a cafe and community space offering coffee, pastries, and fresh healthy food.
- La Colmena: La Milpa CafeGeneral web source · 58%
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Added source-backed tentative evaluation during the hospitality, travel, restaurants, and better-alternatives expansion pass.