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For your information, Milwaukee, here are a few developments worth knowing about.
Locally owned and operated purveyor of liquefied fruit Refuge Smoothie Café is raising its base pay to $11.36/hour – the amount required for a full-time, full-year worker to keep a family of four out of poverty in Wisconsin. Each employee is awarded that wage after a six-month affirmation period. “I simply want to be the best company to ever come out of Milwaukee. My measure of success will be how happy we keep out employees and customers,” said Joshua Janis, Owner/Operator of Refuge, “We are growing as a company and it is important to maintain the incredible culture that we have started. Rewarding employees for a job well done is just one of the ways that we do so. Good and happy employees are the biggest asset to success.” You can support Refuge Smoothie Café’s virtuous business model by visiting one of its four locations: downtown at 758 N. Broadway (inside the Milwaukee Athletic Club), an East Side location at 2328 N. Farwell Ave., 422 E. Lincoln Ave. in Bay View and a kiosk inside the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
For more information contact Joshua Janis at 414-334-0114 or by email, Joshua@RefugeSmoothies.com. More information still at Facebook and Twitter @RefugeSmoothies.
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In other food-related news…
Sendik's Food Markets has hired local chef Peter Gebauer to serve as Executive Chef for the family-owned, local grocer. Gebauer brings to the role more than 40 years of culinary expertise as well as the 2013 Chef of the Year award from the Wisconsin Restaurant Association. Gebauer will develop new signature recipes for Sendik's, coach chefs in each of Sendik's 12 kitchens and generally find innovative ways to meet the needs of the consumer.
And in news unrelated to food…
The AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin has announced that erstwhile ‘NSYNC star Lance Bass and his husband, Michael Turchin, will be the Honorary Chairs of the 26th annual AIDS Walk Wisconsin and 5K Run. The prestigious position is in recognition of Bass’ courageous coming out in a 2006 People Magazine cover story and subsequent serving as an example for youth who find themselves is a similar position… well, a similar position without first having danced before a generation of teenagers. “It is special to find a young couple who wants their marriage to serve a broader purpose right from the beginning,” said ARCW President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Gifford. Bass and Turchin, who is a pop art portrait artist and model, allowed their 2014 wedding to be aired on cable television in part to let others know that it could be possible for them as well.
