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Michelle Wasserman talks about Co-owning Casa Nueva Restaurant

Submitted by Joe on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 13:15

Carly Damman, of the Ohio University School of Journalism, interviews Michelle Wasserman about the worker-owned restaurant Casa Nueva in Athens, Ohio.

Resources from Casa Nueva's Cooperative Governance page

Resources from Casa Nueva's Press page

"Crew Hopes to Start Worker-Owned Eatery" by Lisa Stettler, The Athens News 1985 (excerpt)
"Casa Nueva Blends Best of Old Image with Plans for the New" by Lee Landenberger, The Athens Messenger 1985 (excerpt)
"Renewing The Countryside", Renewing The Countryside
"Worker Owned Restaurant Promotes Healthy Entrees and Entrepreneurs"
"Many Cooks Make A Restaurant Success", In Business Magazine March/April 2000
"Food For Thought", Ohio Magazine, January 2008
"Ohio's Best Hometowns 2009 - Athens", Ohio Magazine, November 2008
"Party With The Pawpaw", Ohio Magazine, September 2008
"Worth The Trip", by Nancy McKibben, Edible Columbus Summer 2010
"Worker-Owned Cooperative in the USA", Rivista Anarchica Online, January 2011
"There Is So Much Future In What We Do...", by Karen Thomas, Owners At Work, Winter 2011
"Athens, Ohio is Going the Distance in Local Food Movement", by Wendy Pramik, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Spring 2011
Casa Q & A Video, by Carly Damman, OU School of Journalism, Fall 2011

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Worker Owned Restaurant Promotes Healthy Entrees and Entrepreneurs

Submitted by Joe on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 11:45

Karen Thomas of OEOC writes about Athens, Ohio's Casa Nueva in 2002:

Casa Nueva opened for business as a worker-owned cooperative in 1985 when the much-indebted owner of Case Que Pasa, a local Mexican restaurant, skipped town. As then-manager Schaller recalled, "a group of us [employees] ran the business until the bailiff showed up. Because we lacked the capital to buy the business ourselves, we incorporated as a cooperative within a C corporation. "Each founder put up $1,000 and bought the assets out of receivership. We then got local bank loans for working capital. We showed a profit in the first year and enjoyed double digit growth for the next decade," said Nancie Buerkel, Casa’s financial coordinator and a member since 1989. "Today we make $1 million plus in annual sales."

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Saluting Worker-Owned Casa Nueva Restaurant

Thomas K. Saluting Worker-Owned Casa Nueva Restaurant. Owners at Work. 2011.

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Selling Your business to your employees through a worker cooperative

Submitted by Joe on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 11:43

From the Ohio Employee Ownership Center's 22nd Annual conference, Leslie Schaller, of Casa Nueva Restaurant and Cantina, Todd Brewster of Select Machine, Mark Stewart of Shumaker Loop & Kendrick, and Rod Kelsay of the Mid-America Cooperative Council host an hour and half long discussion on transitioning businesses into cooperatives. The OEOC's library is a rich and growing source of information on cooperatives from their conferences and other work.

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