SPoT Coffee
{{Infobox company
| name = SPoT Coffee
| logo = SPoT Coffee logo.png
| image = SPoT Buffalo.jpg
| image_caption = SPoT Coffee on Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo
| type = Public ({{tsxv|SPP}})
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| location_city = Buffalo, New York
| area_served = United States, Canada
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| industry = Coffeehouse
Restaurants
| products = Coffee, tea, soups, Pizzas, sandwiches, wraps
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| homepage = {{URL|www.spotcoffee.com}}
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SPoT Coffee & Spot Coffee (Canada) Ltd. (abbreviated SPP) {{cite web | url=http://www.sedar.com/DisplayProfile.do?lang=EN&issuerType=03&issuerNo=00025929 | title=Spot Coffee (Canada) Ltd. | publisher=SEDAR filing system | accessdate=July 7, 2012}} is an international coffee company and coffeehouse chain which is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.
SPoT designs, builds and operates community- oriented cafés.{{cite web | url=http://www.spotcoffee.com/images/pdf/spot%20coffee%20fact%20sheet-%20april%2019%202012.pdf | title=Fact Sheet - SPoT Coffee | publisher=SPoT Coffee | date=April 16, 2012 | accessdate=July 7, 2012}}
Locations and expansions
SPoT Coffee first opened in Buffalo in 1996. As of 2019, SPoT operates 17 coffee houses and Express cafés. 13 are located in and around Buffalo, one in Rochester, one each in Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls, NY, as well as one in Connecticut. In 2009, SPoT opened their fifth location called Williamsville SPoT, in the town of Amherst, New York. In 2010, the company added a Delray Beach, Florida location{{cite web | url=http://tmx.quotemedia.com/article.php?newsid=36791847&qm_symbol=SPP | title=SPoT Coffee Opens Its Sixth Cafe at Delray Beach, Florida and Announces New President | publisher=TSX Inc. | work=(Marketwire) | date=Dec 21, 2010 | accessdate=July 7, 2012}} which received a 2011 historic preservation board award. SPoT also has locations in Clarence, New York and Saratoga Springs, NY. SPoT opened an Express café inside Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in June 2018, and the company opened a location in Snyder, NY and in West Hartford, Connecticut later that year.{{cite news|last1=Fink|first1=James|title= Snyder, Roswell Locations for Spot Coffee |url= https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2017/10/02/snyder-roswell-locations-brewing-for-spot-coffee.html |accessdate=10 June 2018|publisher=Buffalo Business First|date=October 17, 2017}}
Unionzation efforts
Three longtime employees who were fired by Spot Coffee said they were illegally terminated for their involvement in unionization efforts. Union meetings were held over poor working conditions and low pay. SPoT fired two workers for attending a union meeting and then also fired a manager after the manager refused to give up names of employees who attended the meeting.{{cite web| url = https://buffalonews.com/2019/07/03/spot-coffee-workers-protest-after-union-organizers-are-fired/| title = Spot Coffee workers protest after union organizers are fired {{!}} Business Local {{!}} buffalonews.com}}
On August 21, 2019, Spot Coffee employees voted, 43–6, to form a union, making them some of the only barista workers in the country with union representation. This vote will affect 90 workers at Spot Coffee locations in Buffalo at the Hertel, Delaware and Elmwood avenues, along with one on Main Street in Williamsville.{{Cite web|url=https://buffalonews.com/2019/08/20/spot-coffee-workers-vote-to-form-a-union-campaign-called-groundbreaking/|title=Spot Coffee workers vote to form a union; campaign called 'groundbreaking'|date=2019-08-20|website=The Buffalo News|language=en-us|access-date=2019-08-22}}
Gallery
Image: Spot buffalo downtown.JPG|The first spot location in downtown Buffalo
Image: Rochester - Spot Coffee.JPG|The Rochester location
See also
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