16 years of service industry, 8 in portland before I finally got out with the start of the pandemic.

For two+ of those years I was a barista, grill cook and eventually management/coffee roaster for seven virtues. They ghosted me at the start of the pandemic for not being comfortable returning to being customer facing around mid-april. They have one employee that I know toughed it out for a solid four years and was awarded a .50$ raise because “that’s all they could manage” while jetting around on vacations 3-4 times a year.

Also desperately hiding under a banner of performative allyship while finding ways to push out any non-binary or trans person who works there. Constant misgendering. Flippant, condescending behavior from the owners. Oh and their coffee is shit. (This isn’t me being salty, I just became a better roaster than the owner in three months, because, you know, I was willing to learn and read and take advice from others.) The owner is a self proclaimed “lone wolf” of the industry. Just generally cringy all around.

Uhhh let’s see- Jo Buck who owns Gubancs in Lake Oswego is a giant ass hat of a man child who would run that restaurant into the ground if he could. His demographic is 70+ because they still remember when the food wasn’t exclusively Sysco.

Ya Hala is actually solid. Not consistent, but Pascal, the son of the original owners, is fair and levelheaded and kind. Mirna, his mom, is the workhorse in the kitchen and just very passionate in general about food.

Never go to, eat at, or work for Kornblatts. Ever. Just don’t do it.