Oakland Cafe Has Amazing Response To Broken Window After Zimmerman Protests - image

[Tx4obama]

"Our window was smashed on Saturday," Dunlap told The Huffington Post. "When we came in on Monday morning, we watched as journalists and passersby took photo after photo after photo of our broken window. But what we really should be talking about is not the window. We decided to put the focus back on what really matters."

Article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/oakland-zimmerman_n_3614521.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. Brilliant. (nt)

[lib87]

2. Good for the Cafe!

I wish I lived in Oakland. I'd go to the cafe asap.

[Alameda]

13. It's not a cafe,

It is a very expensive, upscale restaurant that most can not afford to go to. It's a symbol of the gentrification of Oakland as many former SF people move across the Bay for cheaper rents that are now going up and up and up.

Not to justify the vandalism, but to add context.

[RevStPatrick]

15. Really? I just looked at the menu...

...looks like a typical hipster cafe to me:

http://www.awakencafe.com/menu/

[Civilization2]

18. thanks; the Whole Organic Avocado & Toast served with Kalamata Olives for $6.50 sound good!

I will stop in and try it when I am in town,. seems like a reasonable little cafe.

[snooper2]

19. Is hipster new term for yuppie?

Whole Organic Avocado & Toast served with Kalamata Olives 6.50

[RevStPatrick]

20. Hipsters are sort of the anti-yuppies...

They will happily pay $6.50 for Whole Organic Avocado & Toast served with Kalamata Olives (that's a pretty good price!), but they will wear ripped jeans and tee shirts that show off their tattoos while doing so.

I live in hipster Brooklyn now, which is the Oakland of NYC.

(actually, I was born in Oakland, I've lived in the Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock, and now I live in Williamsburg. I just always somehow end up in places like this.)

[wryter2000]

24. Oakland as the Brooklyn of San Francisco

I've lived in Oakland since 1969. It's my home and my favorite place on Earth. The Brooklyn of San Francisco is a pretty good description.

BTW, there is a Brooklyn in Oakland. Oakland is made up of a collection of smaller cities that merged into Oakland and are now called districts (such as Fruitvale and Dimond). There is a tiny Brooklyn area near Lake Merritt.

[Major Hogwash]

38. That's weird.

I thought that hipsters were friends of the yuppys.
They just had more money, but yuppys were more political than hipsters or hippys.
And that they were all linked together because they were all anti-establishment.

But, that's just me.

[leapinggnome]

44. Yuppie

means Young Upwardly Mobile. Meaning college students who would graduate and get really good jobs. They were far from anti-establishment.

[A HERETIC I AM]

48. Young Urban Professional

The term has been around for decades and it has always meant "Young Urban Professional" regardless of what Wikipedia might say.

[leapinggnome]

50. I didn't look at WIkipedia.

I was relying on my memory, which apparently is a little faulty. I stand corrected...

[Helen Borg]

21. Sounds yummy...

and affordable to me...

[savebigbird]

47. Basically

Hipsters are yuppies, alright: yuppies of irony. They're like yuppies in really good disguise. Nothing against them, btw.

[raindaddy]

22. Thanks for the clarification.

Looks like my kind of place!

[mulsh]

32. Their prices are pretty standard for most Oakland neighborhoods.

If you want to eat on the cheap just go across the street to Mr. Pizza Man - a slice and a soft drink for $3.00. I'm pretty sure they sell coffee over there too. you can even get a cup of water for free. If you want over priced hipster food just head over to Rudy's Can't Fail on Telegraph, across the street from Flora's broken windows.

[Alameda]

40. I see, my error, we are talking about different places.

I was thinking of the one where the waiter was hit with a hammer....which is Context is everything....

http://floraoakland.com/menus.htm

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23677702/oakland-man-arrested-warrant-during-small-downtown-protest

Different menus and different prices......you do realize Oakland is going through some "issues"

I was born there, am still less than 3 miles from where this took place. I've had to make my way through the chaos.

[kestrel91316]

28. That's not "very expensive". That's typical for anything resembling real food

in my neighborhood. If you want to settle for microwaved, canned, frozen, pre-prepared stuff you can get it cheaper.

[bluestate10]

30. The poster was likely thinking about microwaved beef patties on warmed over bread,

with hard as bricks tomato slices and pathetic lettuce that is served up by the national burger shops. The yummy burger can be had for less than $6 with no fries or drink. $6.50 for much healthier fare is a good deal in all respects.

[Make7]

39. The owners should change the name—'Awaken Cafe' makes it sound like it is a cafe. ( n/t )

[CitizenLeft]

3. fantastic

Kudos to the cafe owner for understanding.

[Ohio Joe]

4. Reason...

So refreshing

[jtuck004]

5. I wonder if they serve lemonade? They sure know what to do with a lemon... n/t

[SunSeeker]

6. Perfect. nt

[cali]

7. wow. just wow.

[Hekate]

8. Heartwarming

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. My hope is that the next asshole who feels the need to destroy....

....leaves these good people alone.

[Iggo]

26. Whoosh!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

31. So wait....

Because they've made a great point (which I get and support, in spite of your need to snark), I can't wish them good luck in the future?

[Iggo]

42. No.

[calimary]

10. Well, one more person gets it.

One by one. We should be standing OUR ground, too.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. I bet the cameras stopped filming after that....

Those pictures were being taken of a broken window because those taking them knew their audience is obsessed with property over people. Doesn't matter if the window is in a town they'll never visit in a store they'll never shop in. It's just the IDEA that it was broken that sends them through the roof.

They love conspiracy theories too so I tell someone like that, "How do you know it wasn't broken by a local glass company to drum up business?" just to see where it goes.

[moondust]

12. K/R

[robinlynne]

14. beautifully done!

[KamaAina]

16. Should I turn up in downtown Oakland

a distinct possibility at the moment, I know where my lattes, etc. will be coming from.

And it ain't Starbucks or even Peet's, the Bay Area equivalent (now owned by the evil empire )

[kestrel91316]

29. Who bought Peet's???

[KamaAina]

35. Starbucks

a/k/a the Evil Empire.

They do plan to keep the brand, but can the quality stay up?

[kestrel91316]

36. Do you have a link? I can't find this anywhere. I did find that they got bought last fall,

but Starbucks had nothing to do with that.

[KamaAina]

37. Ah. Apparently that rumored deal fell through.

(big sigh of relief)

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

17. A window can be replaced. Trayvon Martin cannot.

Very classy of this restaurant.

[rhett o rick]

23. Bravo. nm

[Cha]

25. Excellent Response, Tx!

Thank you!

[malaise]

27. Wonderful

I'd give them my business

[bemildred]

33. And smart, good for business. nt

[barbtries]

34. there's still good people out there.

thankfully. i wonder if the same media that took picture after picture of the window are reporting this.

[Liberal_in_LA]

41. k&r

[Scurrilous]

43. K & R

[leapinggnome]

45. I'm shaking my head

at the people who are not really responding the message on the window but would rather have a semantic argument whether the restaurant should be called a cafe or not? Are you really that bored in your life? Or that jaded?

Wow. Seriously.

[Change has come]

46. Thanks for that body motion update!

I was seriously wondering.

[blackspade]

49. Well done.

[SeaLyons]

51. K/R