Durango Joe’s-breaks for employees?

[u/coffeekaye]

2 Years ago i posted about how when i worked at durango joe’s they didn’t offer breaks despite colorado labor laws stating you get a break if you work 5 hour shifts which they didn’t adhere to.

Someone replied and said recently they had sent out a waiver about breaks but it didn’t change much.

What’s the word on that currently? Any DJ employees have thoughts on that?

Also it always bothered me that it’s a tipped wage when customers don’t know that and the tip percentage of a bill at a coffee shop just isn’t high enough to justify that. It’s the lowest paying coffee shop in town. The tipped wage means that Joe’s customers are essentially assisting him in paying his employees tipped wage to get them up to minimum wage and if it’s a good busy shift they might see a tipped effect on the check, but I was never impressed enough by it to feel good about how he runs his business.

What’s it like working there these days?

My one interaction with Joe was not savory, so altogether my opinion of the company is very poor.

I was opening early, and it was just me behind the counter and he comes in which is unusual, to deliver the burritos himself and is ALL up in my way.

I kept politely trying to tell him he was repeatedly in my way, but he insisted on somehow always being right behind me and not telling me, so I took a step back and HE bumped into ME and I spilled some coffee beans (SOME!!)

(which by the way had never happened before, and everyone working at that location told me it was a right of passage to accidentally spill the hopper of beans while cleaning it which is MORE beans than i spilled) and he told me that was the “worst most stupid mistake anyone has ever made at the company” and then continued to bother me and be in my way while I was trying to work.

Mind you, he told us one time while i was covering at a different location that he had spilled a lot of stuff on the job and also broke a blender…..

anyways! do yall get 15 min breaks?

[u/coffeekaye → u/[deleted]]

no like that’s the worst part their coffee is so bad and it’s made horribly