The second floor really provided a sanctuary from busy campus life. “It was one of the first places I was acquainted with during my first semester of college. “I’m looking forward to its reopening,” Rojo said. Public relations sophomore Hugo Rojo said he’s looking forward to seeing the cafe open on the Drag once more. For me there’s kind of a void now without that daily interaction.” You kind of get to know these people and get to know their lives or whatever they want to share with you. “I love waking up early, drinking my coffee before the sun comes up and seeing my customers every morning. “I’ve been doing service industry, coffee shop-type jobs for 10 years and I love it,” King said.

King said that although the break from work was initially refreshing, he now is ready to get back to seeing the cafe’s regular customers.

We plan on being on Guadalupe for another 10 years at least, so we might as well do a full-on renovation.” “The renovation stuff and the modernization - all that was kind of like, well, if we’re going to do this, we might as well do it right. “Basically was the catalyst for having to do all this,” King said. It’s basically just going to be twice as refined.”Īs for any additional changes, King said the shop will no longer be making fresh sandwiches, and will instead be serving food from two Austin local businesses: sandwiches from Walton’s Fancy and Staple and breakfast tacos from Fresa’s. “I mean it’s really going to look pretty sleek, and we’re still going to have a lot of that natural wood kind of feel that we had before. We grow the company by contributing our knowledge, our passion, and our respect to every aspect of service. At Medici, we work with integrity and strive for excellence. “The main thing that’s going to happen that’s going to be different is we’re basically getting a facelift for the whole downstairs,” King said. We believe in the potential of coffee to cultivate community by creating memorable experiences through our commitment to hospitality and craft. King said customers will mostly be able to notice the refreshed look inside the cafe. Thomas King, general manager for Caffe Medici’s Guadalupe location, said he anticipates the cafe to be re-opened around the second week of May, though the exact date is difficult to anticipate between issues with city permits and work being pushed back with the contractor. The cafe’s Guadalupe Street location, which opened on the Drag in 2008, has been closed since March 7 to renovate an issue with the store’s sinking floor structure and make several cosmetic changes to the location’s interior. Not the best in town but not the worst by far.As the approach of finals week has students taking shelter in coffee shops, renovations brewing at Caffe Medici may not be ready until mid-May. There are a handful of great people that work in the company. I can't give you a raise based on the little info I know about you.' Despite that person being with the company for almost 3 years. When senior baristas asked to be treated fairly and compensated equally to competing coffee shops, they response was 'it's a different business model. The direction they went in was 'lets make as much money for the company as fast as we can then we will take care of our baristas.' Which make sense. They hired more uppermangment without telling anyone. They even helped those people they had to lay off by enrolling them in their unemployment.īut when that was all over with, things started to change. They laid off over half of the staff, which was fair because of the time.

When the pandemic hit, they did everything they could to keep the business floating. We were close to the owners and we were close to the community. When I first started it was a caring and open place that was opened to everyone. I worked for Medici for years, in multiple positions.

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