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Beanchain Coffee: Building a Better World through Worker-Directed Business
Beanchain's core mission is ambitious and clear: to build fair, worker-directed coffee shops that genuinely serve their communities. Beyond just a place to gather, drink coffee, and work, Beanchain aims to empower its workers, fight poverty, and promote a broader cultural shift toward worker ownership and democratic workplaces.

David Baxter
5 hours ago3 min read


All about Beanchain Coffee
Beanchain Coffee is a worker-directed coffee shop in Mesa, Arizona.
It’s more than a café—it’s a real-world experiment proving that business can be fair, democratic, and community-focused.

David Baxter
5 days ago5 min read


The Solution Seeking System
TLDR one linerThe Solution Seeking System assists systems(any group of people) by identifying solutions that improve communication, connection, wisdom, leadership, or any other aspect of those systems. It creates a smooth cycle of growth and change that creates living systems that can better serve their participants.

David Baxter
Jul 105 min read


The Heart of Beanchain: Community-Centric Features That Make Us Different
Since we opened our doors, Beanchain has been more than a place to get a great cup of coffee. We set out to prove that a business can thrive when it puts people first—whether that’s the people working behind the counter, the neighbors who stop in every morning, or the folks who just need a place to feel welcome. If you’ve ever wondered what makes Beanchain so community-centered, here are a few of the features that shape our space and our mission every day.

David Baxter
Jun 303 min read


Welcome to Beanchain Coffee!
Beanchain Coffee is a worker-directed coffee shop and incubator for democratic business practices, located in Mesa, Arizona. It is embracing worker cooperative principles and attempting to build a model that can serve as a bridge for other companies to use to move towards worker ownership and worker cooperative models. With the larger goal of building a Cooperative Network that can allow for scaling while ensuring local worker ownership.

David Baxter
Jun 153 min read
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