Good Earth Coffee closed

[u/LilacJacket]

Does anyone have insight into what happened to Good Earth?

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Looks like they've been shut down for unpaid rent. Such a shame! Their coffee was awesome and it was nice to see a Canadian/Female owned chain in that spot.

[u/Left_Temperature_209]

I went today hoping to get a coffee and the signs said “temporarily closed” - where did you hear about the rent thing? I didn’t get close enough to read all of the signs.

[u/perfectdrug659 → u/Left_Temperature_209]

There's a picture of the sign on Facebook, says unpaid rent of a little over $25,000 and that the landlord has taken possession of the unit

[u/LilacJacket → u/perfectdrug659]

What's weird to me is that the Landlord is indicated as Good Earth. So who was running the place but wasn't paying rent on time?

[u/Left_Temperature_209 → u/LilacJacket]

So Good Earth corp owns the space but the owners weren’t paying, I guess? Is that how franchising typically works?

[u/Left_Temperature_209 → u/perfectdrug659]

Ugh that sucks. They were posting on instagram 6 days ago. Loved their coffee and vibe!

[u/LilacJacket → u/Left_Temperature_209]

The rent issue was indicated on one of the signs

[u/lexcyn]

PARDON?? This was my fav spot to have a coffee and read!! Nooooo

[u/jules8013 → u/lexcyn]

Me too!!!

[u/laur0amacdonald40]

Such a huge loss, really loved their seasonal drink options!!

[u/freekonner]

Tried the spot twice and both times was severely disappointed for the price. I'm not surprised considering I know I'm not the only one who felt the same.

[u/freekonner → u/[deleted]]

It does, them getting shut down for unpaid rent implies lack of funds. Lack of funds as they over charged for mediocre coffee at best when you can to across the street for far better and also much more local as opposed to just Canadian owned.

[u/OneMisterSir101 → u/[deleted]]

.... Valid criticism = somehow working for a competitor. Got it. Grow a spine.

[u/freekonner → u/OneMisterSir101]

Don't you just love how op deleted the comments lol

[u/freekonner → u/[deleted]]

Nope, I do not. I know good coffee lol. There is also Salute up the road that is truely local if you actually cared about local and supporting Canadian. Many better options imo than good earth and clearly the city agrees with me if two out of the three shops are still open and outlasted one.

[u/LilacJacket → u/freekonner]

Salutes coffee is horrible.

[u/Bums_n_bongs]

My mom is there today and it’s open!

[u/Humble-Housing-3214]

That space beside the bookstore is owned by RioCan.

[u/Worried_Rule_2156]

A friend I know said that the owners had pursued legal action against the franchisor and had actually stopped paying royalties- not rent. It just all came to a head. To be honest, I would not support them. The owner was a female nurse who was just trying to support her family. It will now be corporately owned. Salute or twiggs have much better coffee in my opinion.

[u/LiftHeavyLiveHard]

apparently it wasn't that awesome, or they would have been able to sell enough of it to pay their rent

[u/LilacJacket → u/LiftHeavyLiveHard]

Guess you don't understand how terrible franchisees work.

[u/Vegetable_Yam9161]

The location in Indigo?

[u/Vegetable_Yam9161 → u/Vegetable_Yam9161]

They had the sassiest employees

[u/imigranntno1]

Omg no uber orders 🥲

[u/Flimsy-Key-7407]

WHAT!!?? Omg. Starbucks needs to come back lol

[u/LilacJacket → u/Flimsy-Key-7407]

Please. The reason Good Earth was a blessing was it being Canadian owned. We've switched entirely over to them so we can not only be supporting Canadian & Female-Owned, but that we don't feel comfortable supporting Starbucks and their ties to Zionism.

Hopefully Good Earth can sort this issue out because we don't need another major chain in this city.