Unethical, Unprofessional, and Dishonest. - Management Bluestone Lane Employee Review

1.0
May 5, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working with great customers and using top quality coffee machinery

Cons

CEO and Founders are more driven by real estate ambitions and personal profit than any sort of passion or knowledge of the speciality coffee industry. They throw money at their problems and bully through local laws by utilizing their legal power and other connections they have with judges in the New York area. Their Ethics are very questionable . The inner circle of upper management is anything but diverse. Everyone is Austrlian except for one person. They make business partnerships and fail to fulfil the terms of the agreements by withholding payments. I highly discourage working for this company at any level.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It's a job, you get paid. The drinks and food are good too, and you get a free meal on your lunch break.

Cons

The base salary is 11.50, customer tips are expected to cover the rest of the gap between that and the current minimum wage, which is enough pocket money for a teenager but is not enough to sustain an adult living in NYC. They're also a bit understaffed. New employee training is messy and unstructured and you are expected to know much of it on your own. Employees do basic cleaning every day, but the cafe desperately needed a deeper cleaning. All of the shelves, bathroom plants, and bathroom wall trim had a fairly thick layer of dust, and the furniture was clearly very used. The place just never felt fully clean.

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