Here’s a feel-good story from Canada. The Anarchist, an “anti-capitalist” café and coffee shop with a “pay what you can” business model is closing down after a year in business. The operators know who’s to blame for their failure.
An “anti-capitalist” café and coffee shop in Toronto named The Anarchist with a “pay what you can” business model will close at the end of the month after just over a year in business. pic.twitter.com/DpSiMDIPcv
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) May 16, 2023
We’re honestly surprised they lasted a year.
The Toronto shop, which opened in March 2022, will close on May 30, its owner announced in a statement, blaming a “lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources.”
The café offered drip coffee to customers with a “pay what you can” price tag while…
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) May 16, 2023
The café offered drip coffee to customers with a “pay what you can” price tag while charging for other beverages like espresso and tea drinks as well as breakfast pastries to subsidize the lost revenue. It also allowed the public to use its restroom and hang out in the storefront without making a purchase. Despite its closure, shop owner Gabriel Sims-Fewer called his short-lived business endeavor “a huge success.” He ended his statement with a batch of expletives. “F–k the rich. F–k the police. F–k the state. F–k the colonial death camp we call ‘Canada,’” Sims-Fewer signed off.
With that sound business model, I can’t believe this failed.
— Johnny Quarantine 🥇 (@ADeeHD) May 16, 2023
What a shocking result !
— Tom Sears (@LurkinTomGaming) May 16, 2023
Lmfao I guess they were expecting people to pay well and support them because they were "anti capitalist". Business don't work like that. I'm honestly surprised they even lasted a year
— IRUNNIA (@Irunnia_) May 16, 2023
Crazy to think that you need to make a profit to sustain a business. Huh.
— Photo Guy (@DesMoinesPhoto) May 16, 2023
Who would have thought
— Guvnor (@CFCGuvnor) May 16, 2023
Remember that awesome commune that was CHOP: the Capitol Hill Ongoing Protest in Seattle? Food was just supposed to magically appear for everyone. Well, they did start a tiny garden. Seattle’s socialist council member said a drive-by killing in the CHOP zone “highlights capitalism’s brutality.”
Go woke, go broke
— onemorecomma (@0nemorecomma) May 16, 2023
Gee it’s almost like that’s not how the real world works
— 優木せつ菜 🇦🇷 (@nijigasakilove) May 16, 2023
Surprised they made it a year. The irony is amazing. People are too idealistic, that’s a great lesson for commies
— Drywall Media (@DrywallMedia) May 16, 2023
I thought for sure this business model would work
— cooterlover (@endtheRword69) May 16, 2023
They needed to sell more anti-capitalist merchandise, like T-shirts and books.
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Related:
After razing CHOP, Mayor Jenny Durkan praises the weeks of ‘incredibly peaceful demonstrations’ there https://t.co/MjxSV9USsR
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 2, 2020
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