SACRAMENTO — Oakland coffee association Red Bay Coffee was famous Monday for a work in lenient employees during an endowment rite honoring tiny businesses via a state.
State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, respected Red Bay as “Small Business of a Year” during a California Small Business Day Awards, an endowment and eventuality sponsored by a California Small Business Association that seeks to commend “important contributions tiny businesses make via a state,” according to a news recover from Skinner’s office.
“I chose to respect Red Bay Coffee since of their worker empowerment – in further to portion good coffee,” Skinner said. “I extol Keba for contracting before jailed individuals, who face poignant barriers to find work.”
Red Bay Coffee, that was founded in 2014 by artist and food businessman Keba Konte, hires before jailed individuals. Through a profit-sharing model, Red Bay’s 21 employees all possess partial of a company. Skinner also praised a association for building partnerships with a different set of suppliers.
The coffee association has mixed locations in Oakland, including a roasting trickery in East Oakland and a sell emporium that it calls a “coffee box” in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. It sells 11 varietals of coffee beans during 50 coffee shops via a Bay Area and sells coffee during weekend farmers markets in Jack London Square and Berkeley.
“My truth is some-more than a good crater of coffee. We find to have an even larger impact on a economy,” pronounced Konte, per a news release. “It’s about regulating coffee to uplift a people.”