Good Work Austin

Fosters healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

How we do it

  • Support Local Businesses

    We help locally-owned small businesses raise wages, provide benefits, and improve working conditions

    Supporting Local Businesses
  • Feed Our Community

    The GWA Community Kitchen pays local restaurants to provide nutritious meals to communities facing food insecurity

    Feed Our Community
  • Train Workers

    GWA is opening Austin’s first non-profit café dedicated to training the next generation of hospitality industry workers

    A Non-Profit Café

Since May 2020, the GWA Community Kitchen has distributed more than 2 million meals

Local restaurants are feeding communities facing food insecurity, keeping more than $10 million dollars in the local economy.

GWA Resource Guides for Business Owners

  • Healthy Employees

    Your people are the foundation of your thriving business. With trainings, advocacy, and partnerships with some of Austin’s best non-profits, GWA will help your business implement paid sick leave, a living wage guarantee, and affordable access to health care, counseling, and wellness benefits.

  • Healthy Workplace

    GWA believes workplaces should be inclusive, equitable, diverse, and safe. GWA offers sexual harassment prevention training, diversity training, financial literacy courses for your employees, and open book management courses for you. GWA offers training and certifications with online and in-person options to create positive workplace cultures.

  • Healthy Community

    We all live here and work here. We need to know what’s going on, what affects us, and how we can be best connected. GWA has access to volunteer opportunities, apprentice and internship sources, and provides legislative updates with state and city leaders to keep you in the loop on policies that impact your business.

What GWA Business Owners Are Saying

 

"Good Work Austin has been incredibly helpful for navigating a best course of action during pandemic times. It is a huge peace of mind to be able to talk through challenges with other businesses who are committed to doing the right thing and to support each other through a really trying couple of years. I am incredibly excited about the forward momentum of GWA and am excited about the good things we can do in our community."

— Randi, Owner of Epoch Coffee

"From embracing a One Fair Wage compensation model to navigating the pandemic with a community-centric mindset to leaning in to opportunities to feed and nourish our neighbors, we've evolved so much as a business thanks to our affiliation with Good Work Austin. It's very encouraging to see so many colleagues working collaboratively, not competitively, to have a positive impact on the industry. We're honored to be a part of that."

— Jessica, Owner of DrinkWell

 

Participating Businesses

  • Brentwood Social House

  • L'Oca d'Oro

  • Salt & Time

  • Casey's New Orleans Snowballs

  • Epoch Coffee

  • SESA Pure

  • Let's Get Healthy

  • Black Star Co-op Pub & Brewery

  • Hillside Farmacy

  • West Pecan Coffee + Beer

  • Antonelli's

  • DrinkWell

  • Olamaie, Little Ola's, and Maie Day

  • Bouldin Creek Café

  • Lenoir

  • Foreign & Domestic

  • Dai Due

  • Garbo's

  • Bufalina

  • Baby Greens

  • Wu Chow and Little Wu

  • Comedor

  • Emmer & Rye, Hestia, and Kalimotxo

  • Henbit, TLV, and Canje

  • House Wine

  • Rebel Cheese

  • Taterque

  • Intero

  • Suerte

  • Patika Coffee

  • Oseyo

  • Chez Zee

  • Old Thousand

  • Barrett's Coffee

  • Colleen's Kitchen

  • The Cavalier

  • The Cook's Nook

  • Country Boyz Fixins

  • China Harbor

  • Lil Mama's

  • Yard Bar

  • Counter Culture

  • Texas Keeper Cider

  • Komé Sushi, Sa-Tén, and Uroko

  • Vittle Vibes

  • R19 Taqueria

  • Bread 4 The People

  • Southside Flying Pizza

  • Quack's

  • Dear Diary Coffeehouse

  • Flitch Coffee

  • Barley Swine

  • Franklin Barbecue

  • Ka-Prow Bistro

  • La Pera Catering

  • Mezzeme

  • The Fika Table

  • The Hideout Coffee House

  • Biarte Coffee

  • Galaxy Café and Top Notch

  • Nixta Taqueria

  • Bento Picnic and Saba San's

  • Southern Soul Bowl

  • KG BBQ

  • Rogue Radish

  • Justine's

  • Greater Goods Coffee Co.

  • Modern Blue

  • Kerbey Lane Cafe

  • Tso Chinese Takeout & Delivery

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