PLANTA Queen Chicago

plant-based restaurant

PLANTA Queen Chicago

Industry Food

A River North plant-based restaurant in the PLANTA group serving Asian-inspired vegan sushi, noodles, dumplings, and cocktails. It scores this way because pLANTA Queen is useful for downtown Chicago vegan and date-night searches, but chain ownership and premium pricing keep the score restrained.

Why this matters: PLANTA Queen is useful for downtown Chicago vegan and date-night searches, but chain ownership and premium pricing keep the score restrained.

Letter grade C Performative Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 36* C - Performative
CPERFORMATIVE36 tentative score pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material38
Bonus+1
Cap41Ownership <= 4 and Governance <= 4
After Cap39
Penalties-3
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PLANTA Queen Chicago is publicly described as vegan or plant-based. The badge is informational; it does not directly change ownership, labor, price, toxicity, or governance scoring.

Evidence: [13]

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Evaluation Overview

C - Performative

The score turns mainly on Solidarity with the Unemployed, with the largest penalty coming from Accountability Opacity.

Strengths

  • Solidarity with the Unemployed5/7
  • Loss-Bearing Fidelity5/7
  • Market Conduct5/5

Penalties

  • Accountability Opacity-2
  • Ecological Harm-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
  • Linked claims12
  • Direct axis claims12
  • Coverage12/12

Scoring Axes
Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
3 / 10

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Ownership value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials present it as a restaurant business; the reviewed public material did not identify worker, customer, or community ownership. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
3 / 10

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Governance value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials describe menu and location operations but do not describe binding worker, customer, or community governance rights. [2]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
4 / 10

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Extraction value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago appears in public materials as an operating restaurant rather than a cooperative or public-benefit food institution. [3]
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.
4 / 7

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Labor Sovereignty value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials identify restaurant operations but do not publish a worker-governance or collective-bargaining structure in the reviewed material. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
5 / 7

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Solidarity with the Unemployed value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials make a lower-harm vegan meal category available in its local market. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
5 / 7

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Loss-Bearing Fidelity value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials show a dedicated vegan or plant-based food offering rather than offering plant-based items only as an incidental substitution. [6]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Market Conduct value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials publish ordinary restaurant information such as menus, ordering, reservations, hours, or location information for customers. [7]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Product Integrity value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials describe its food as vegan, vegan, or plant-based. [8]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Scale Integrity value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials describe a local or limited-location restaurant footprint rather than a dominant national food platform. [9]

Penalties
Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Ecological Harm
?
Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
-1

the reviewed public material supports a modest penalty on this axis while leaving the restaurant's dietary classification and customer utility intact.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Ecological Harm value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials present plant-based or vegetarian food, but restaurant operations still involve prepared-food energy, packaging, and supply-chain impacts. [11]
Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

the reviewed public material supports a modest penalty on this axis while leaving the restaurant's dietary classification and customer utility intact.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Accountability Opacity value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials do not provide enough ownership, labor, supplier, or governance detail for a high-confidence structural evaluation. [12]

Bonus Credits
Bonus Credit Why this credit
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

its public material supports a vegan or plant-based restaurant entry with local customer access, but it remains a private restaurant rather than a worker-owned, cooperative, or deeply transparent institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Comparable local vegan and vegetarian restaurant pass; Cost Transparency value calibrated against existing food-directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials publish customer-facing menu, order, reservation, or location information before purchase. [10]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 76/100

12 verified linked claims 12 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 12/12 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 13/20

12 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

12 direct claims across 12 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 15, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

12/12 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

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.
1PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials present it as a restaurant business; the reviewed public material did not identify worker, customer, or community ownership.

Ownership Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

2PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials describe menu and location operations but do not describe binding worker, customer, or community governance rights.

Governance Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

3PLANTA Queen Chicago appears in public materials as an operating restaurant rather than a cooperative or public-benefit food institution.

Extraction Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

4PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials identify restaurant operations but do not publish a worker-governance or collective-bargaining structure in the reviewed material.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

5PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials make a lower-harm vegan meal category available in its local market.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

6PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials show a dedicated vegan or plant-based food offering rather than offering plant-based items only as an incidental substitution.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

7PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials publish ordinary restaurant information such as menus, ordering, reservations, hours, or location information for customers.

Market Conduct Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

8PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials describe its food as vegan, vegan, or plant-based.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

9PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials describe a local or limited-location restaurant footprint rather than a dominant national food platform.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

10PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials publish customer-facing menu, order, reservation, or location information before purchase.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

11PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials present plant-based or vegetarian food, but restaurant operations still involve prepared-food energy, packaging, and supply-chain impacts.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

12PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials do not provide enough ownership, labor, supplier, or governance detail for a high-confidence structural evaluation.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

13PLANTA Queen Chicago's public materials describe its food as vegan, vegan, or plant-based.

Dietary Status Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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