Mimi's Coffee-Alchemy Franchise

Mimi's Coffee-Alchemy Franchise ("Mimi's Coffee") is an organization dedicated to serving you the best cup of coffee by cute waiters/waitresses from every realm (but especially catgirls).

## Summary

Mimi's Coffee was started by Mimi Konesko. She was inspired by the divineness of coffee to create a company that would span the globe. She gathered other like-minded individuals to form Mimi's Coffee.

Mimi's Coffee strives to have the best coffee and customer experience. To that end, they strive to ensure they employ hard-working, kind, and cute Baristas to serve their clientel.

All Baristas must memorize the code of conduct known as the Commandments of Coffee. They must strive to ensure they are always in compliance with the spirit of the code. Higher rank members must be a shining example of the code, and fairly discipline misconduct when it occurs.

## Commandments of Coffee

Upon employment, the new Barista's must memorize the Commandments of Coffee.

1. Coffee is miraculous: So are we all.
2. Our drink should be perfect every time. If not, it is our duty to make it right. Our service should be perfect every time. If not, it is our duty to make amends.
3. Coffee must not be limited by race, creed, or nationality. If physiology restricts diet, it is our duty to research and experiment, in order to eventually find a blend of brew that works.
4. Seek out and preserve knowledge in all forms. Experiment safely and make new discoveries. Through new knowledge and discoveries, we learn to brew new types of coffee.
5. Some minds rest best asleep. Stir not those who would not waken otherwise. But be ready to prepare them a cup of coffee for when they waken.
6. If a person would rend another's passion for coffee, let him be as one torn by wild dogs. For passions are the seat of the Self, and if they bleed, so too does the soul.
7. Wherever coffee flourishes, defend it from the forces seeking to snuff it out. Do not abide the destruction of anything good in the world. Seek out and nurture coffee wherever it grows.
8. He who mistreats a good Barista shall find the one fails him in need.
9. Let each Barista account her own deeds (on and off the clock) and if those deeds should want for wisdom or kindness, let her be put forth to weep alone.
10. Even Coffea plants rent by lightning may grow eventually grow new beans.

## Employee Benefits

* **Lodging and Amenties -** The lodgings are fully furnished with lavatories, laundry, and baths, that are all connected to a modern sewer access.
* **Competitive Pay -** Employees are paid based off the competitive market rates in each city.
* **Paid Holidays/Vacation/Sick Days** -Self-explanatory
* **Educational Assistance and Scholarships** - Through their employment at Mimi's, employees are eligible to receive educational assistance and scholarships at the **Myandran Institute of Thaumaturgy and Technology.**

Coming Soon: Health Insurance, Dental, Pension,

## Ranks

* **Sleepers**: This is not so much a rank but rather a designation for those who do not drink coffee. They are still sleeping until they've had their cup of coffee. They are "asleep" to the enlightenment offered by coffee.
* **The Awakened**: These are the customers. It is the Barisa's duty to serve the Awakened with the perfect service and perfect cup, but not to allow herself to be mistreated.
* **Barista**: The regular members who are responsible for the day to day production and service of coffee. Some Baristas are front-line service workers. Others may be brewers and/or alchemists working in the backrooms.
* **Assistant Manager**: These are the team leaders who are in charge of supervising a group of Baristas over a scheduled shift.
* **Manager**: These are the team leaders who manage an entire store.
* **Regional Manager:** These leaders manage multiple stores in a select region.
* **Executive Board**: The executive board oversees the operations of all the stores.

## Initiation

After a prospective member has demonstrated their memorization of the Commandments of Coffee, a Manager will induct the new recruit through an initiation process. The new recruit will be required to lay kneeling as the Manager takes an aspergillum and lightly sprinkes warm (but not hot) coffee on the recruit. As this is done, the Manager will repeat the store mantra seven times as he circles around the recruit. Upon finishing, the Manager will ask the recruit to rise up again. The Manager will place an apron around the new recruit, as he whispers some personal words of advice. When the apron is fully fastened around the recruit, the Manager will then declare to all who witnessed that the new initiate is now a Barista.

## Promotion

Promotions follow a similar ritual as Initiation, but with the following substitutions.

Assistant Manager - Instead of the Manager using an aspergillum of coffee and circling seven times, the Assistant Manager will be doused with whip cream by the Baristas of the store while they stomp and clap in patterns of seven. When finished, the Manager will resume by taking off the old apron and giving him a new Assistant Manager apron. This otherwise follows the same process as the Initiation.

Manager - A Manager will be fully baptized in a baptismal font filled with coffee and milk froth, rather than an aspergillum, and a Regional Manager will conduct the ritual. The Manager will not be given an apron, but instead be given a silver nametag. This otherwise follows the same process as Initiation.

Regional Manager - A Regional Manager is taken the sacred Cathedral of Coffee in Tamdala, Ithaca, where they are submerged in a pool of Frappuccino in a sacred ceremony, and a member of the Executive Board conducts the ritual. The Regional Manager will not be given an apron, but instead be given a gold nametag. This otherwise follows the same process as Initiation.

Executive Board - The promotion process for the Executive Board continues to remain a secret.

## Excommunication

If a member of Mimi's Coffee engages in gross misconduct warranting expulsion or if the member desires to leave, their ranking supervisor (or fellow Board Members if they are executives) will bring the process of excommunication. This ritual requires either an effigy of the excommunicated or the excommunicated themself in person, surrounded by a circle of their peers and supervisor. Each of them will hold a cup of coffee. The ranking supervisor will read a testament of the life of the excommunicant, focusing on any conduct that may warrant the excommunication. At the end of the reading, the supervisor will declare: "[the excommunicant] is not my [brother/sister]!" and smash their cup of coffee at the feet of the excommunicant or their effigy. One at a time, they remaining members of the ritual will do likewise. After the last cup is smashed, all participants will turn their backs towards the excommunicant/effigy and walk away at the same time, ending the ritual.

## Locations

**Myandra**

* **Lightreach** [Myandra] - Currently also the headquarters.
* **Tamwall**
* **Campus of** **Myandran Institute of Technology and Thaumaturgy**
* **Cammora**
* **Stockdown**
* **Golshaw**

**Ithaca**

* **Gemini City**
* **Acquarius City**
* **Tamdala**
* **Aries**

**Pakon-Uzg**

* **Jut Shakamb**

**Yamato**

* **Yamato City**

**Al-Marila**

* Ghilaya
* Faeport

## Known Members

* **Mimi Koneko, founder/CEO**
* Kimberly Mercer, Executive Board member
* **Zafrira**, Regional Manager (Al-Marila)