But inside this brick storefront, something much more radical is brewing: a business model that could upend the traditional capitalistic business structure. Consistent with the principles of a worker co-op, all employees are offered an ownership stake of the café after working their first 50 hours. The sliding scale makes Cafe Euphoria somewhat of an outlier, even in the socially progressive world of co-ops, Marraffino says. In 2021, employees of White Electric Coffee purchased the coffee shop from the former owners and converted it to a cooperative business model. One recent example is White Electric Coffee Co-op, a café in Providence, Rhode Island, that was purchased by its own employees and converted into a worker co-op.