Taylor Lane Organic Coffee, a 26-year-old Sonoma County company, is shutting dual Bay Area locations inside Whole Foods stores.
The closures, during 2001 Market Street in San Francisco and 390 Coddington Mall in Santa Rosa, will take outcome on Jul 1, according to a minute a association sent to a state’s Employment Development Department. Twelve employees will be laid off.
The association had only non-stop a dual Whole Foods locations a year ago.
Two other stand-alone locations, in Sebastopol and Petaluma, sojourn open, and a association will still occupy 30 employees, according to a letter.
The association was named Taylor Maid until final year, when it altered a name to Taylor Lane. Taylor Lane is a travel in Occidental, a Sonoma city where a association began.
“The word ‘maid’ is a small outdated,” Ted Robb, a partner during now-defunct InHouse Ventures, a Healdsburg investment organisation that had bought a association in 2016, told a Santa Rosa Press Democrat in 2018. Robb told a journal that he designed to open some-more stores and revamp menus, with offerings to embody cannabis-infused drinks.
The company’s website states it’s now owned by dual internal Sonoma families, yet it’s misleading who they are and when a send from Robb’s association occurred.
Since early 2018, a association has had dual CEO changes. Darleen Scherer, who co-founded Brooklyn’s Gorilla Coffee, was hired in Apr 2018 and left 4 months after to join Robb during his new food company, New Barn Organics. Joanie Claussen became arch executive in Jan after fasten Taylor Lane’s house of directors a year ago.
Taylor Lane Organic Coffee did not lapse requests for comment.
Shwanika Narayan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: shwanika.narayan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @shwanika