Employees of local vegetarian restaurant Dandelion Community Cafe (Facebook | Website) are protesting the sudden closure of the restaurant this week.
The employees, under the collective name of “The Seeds,” have created social accounts on Instagram and Facebook, where they state that the move to close the restaurant was made by the owners, following requests for them to acknowledge the formation of a worker union at the restaurant.
The call for a union, according to the social media accounts, was made following the firing of one of the other employees on August 8. The workers delivered a letter to management on August 8 asking for a meeting and a request for the acknowledgment of their union and then another letter on Monday, August 10.
The restaurant was found locked to employees Tuesday morning who say they received a text from one of the owners explaining that it would remain closed through the end of the week. We reached out to the owners for comment but had not heard back at the time of this post but the website has since been updated to read “Dandelion Community Cafe is closed. Until further notice.”
Dandelion Community Cafe is located at 618 N. Thornton Avenue [GMap].
This is the second time during the pandemic that a vegetarian restaurant in the Mills 50 District has made headlines, albeit for much different reasons. Read more about the recent closure of Sanctum Cafe over on OrlandoWeekly.com.
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