Denver coffee shop, paid baristas $50,000 salaries, is closing

8.30D Amethyst Elle

BusinessDen file photo from 2020

This story first ran on the Denver Post, a BusinessDen news partner.

Two years after Amethyst Coffee raised prices by 50 percent to help its baristas earn a living wage, the Denver cofee shop has announced its final day of service.

Amethyst, at 1111 Broadway, will pour its last cup of coffee on October 31, according to a social media posting. Owners Elle Taylor and Breezy Sanchez did not respond to a request for comment.

“Well, everyone, the time has come,” they wrote on Instagram. “Our last day of service is 10.31.22. There’s certainly more to say, but we’ll have to save that for another time.”

Amethyst first opened on Broadway in 2015. The shop also had a space in the Edgewater Public Market, along with one in Lakeside, which the owners closed in August last year, and a location inside Realm, a photography and event space in the Clayton neighborhood. The Broadway store was the last one open.

Taylor and Sanchez previously told BusinessDen that they were burnt out and ready to sell their business last year.

8.30D Amethyst Elle

BusinessDen file photo from 2020

This story first ran on the Denver Post, a BusinessDen news partner.

Two years after Amethyst Coffee raised prices by 50 percent to help its baristas earn a living wage, the Denver cofee shop has announced its final day of service.

Amethyst, at 1111 Broadway, will pour its last cup of coffee on October 31, according to a social media posting. Owners Elle Taylor and Breezy Sanchez did not respond to a request for comment.

“Well, everyone, the time has come,” they wrote on Instagram. “Our last day of service is 10.31.22. There’s certainly more to say, but we’ll have to save that for another time.”

Amethyst first opened on Broadway in 2015. The shop also had a space in the Edgewater Public Market, along with one in Lakeside, which the owners closed in August last year, and a location inside Realm, a photography and event space in the Clayton neighborhood. The Broadway store was the last one open.

Taylor and Sanchez previously told BusinessDen that they were burnt out and ready to sell their business last year.

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