Friday Service Industry Strike

A growing number of Portland area hospitality businesses are taking part in a one day shutdown strike on Friday including:

• Anoche
• Another Round
• Arabica Coffee
• Arcadia
• Austin Street Brewing
• Bard Coffee
• Bayside American Cafe
• Belleflower Brewing
• Benny’s
• Blue Lobster Urban Winery
• Botanically Curious
• Bread & Friends
• Bunker Brewing
• Buzz Coffee
• Camp Penant
• Central Provisions
• Cheese Louise
• Coastal Creamery
• Cocktail Mary
• Cong Tu Bot
• Cuties
• Dean’s Sweets
• Dok Mali
• Double Great Coffee
• Downtown Lounge
• Duckfat
• Duckfat Frites Shack
• Eighty8 Donuts
• Flatiron Coffee
• Forage Market in Portland
• Friends & Family
• George & Leons
• Gill’s
• Gross Confection Bar
• Hardshore Distillery
• Henny’s
• Heritage Seaweed
• Hi Fidelity Beer
• Highroller Lobster
• Hot Suppa
• Hunt & Alpine
• Izakaya Minato
• Jing Yan
• LFK
• Lambs
• LB. Kitchen
• Low Key
• Luncheonette
• Mainely Noods
• Magissa
• Maine & Loire
• Matcha Mood
• Miyake/Pai Men Miyake
• Moonday Coffee
• Mr. Tuna
• Night Mares
• Novare Res
• Nura
• Onggi
• Orchid Thai
• Oun Lidos
• Owlbear’s Rest
• Portland Coop
• Portland Zoo
• Prairie Baking Company
• Radial Coffee
• RiRa
• Roasty’s
• Room for Improvement
• Root Wild
• Rosie’s
• Sandwiches food truck
• Second Rodeo
• Shay’s
• Silver Street by Taj
• Sissle & Daughters
• Smalls
• SoPo Seafood
• Speckled Ax
• Strata
• Sun Oriental Market
• Tandem Coffee
• Thai Pom
• Thai Taste
• The East Ender
• The End of Portland
• The Garden Bar in South Portland and Biddeford
• The Jewel Box
• The Messy Cookie
• The Proper Cup
• Tipo
• Tomaso’s Canteen
• Twin Swirls
• Ugly Duckling
• Wilson County
• Yosaku
• Yuri’s Desserts
• Zephyr Ice
• Further afield there is Vessel & Vine, Tern Coffee, and The Abbey in Brunswick, In a Silent Way in Wiscasset, The Alna Store in Alna, Table Bar in Gardiner, Crooked Spoon in Thomaston, Riverside Butcher in Damariscotta, Luce Spirits, Rock City Coffee, Lemon Bar, Double Grazie and Sammy’s Deluxe in Rockland, Nina June in Rockport, First Fig and The Norumbega in Camden, Toddy Pond Farm in Monroe, Dot’s in Lincolnville, Sheepscot General Store in Whitefield, Black Birch in Kittery, and Magnus on Water, Palace Diner, Apero and Pengs Pizza in Biddeford.

The stated goals of the strike include asking state and local government to take action, and legislation at the federal level to halt funding for ICE.

Additionally, other businesses plan to stay open and will be making donations to local organizations that are helping people impacted by the presence of ICE in Maine:

• Abbiocco
• Apres
• Banh Appetit
• Bayside Bowl
• Becky’s Diner
• Bissell Brothers
• Blyth and Burrows
• Bom Dia
• Brickyard Hollow
• Cera
• Chocolate Passion
• Coffee by Design
• Coveside Coffee
• David’s and David’s 388
• Douro
• El Rayo
• Five of Clubs
• Foundation Brewing
• Gelato Fiasco (Portland and Brunswick)
• Green Elephant
• Hank & Artie’s
• Harbor Fish
• Isa Bistro
• Leeward
• Lil Chippy
• Miss Portland Diner
• Monte’s Fine Foods
• N-to-Tail
• Night Moves Bread
• Noble Pizza & Barbecue
• Norimoto Bakery
• Novel
• Ocotillo
• Papi
• Po’ Boys and Pickles
• Ramona’s
• Rose Foods
• Rosemont Market
• Scratch Baking Company
• Sodt
• Sur Lie
• Terlingua
• Terlingua Outpost
• The Brass Rail
• The Send Brewing
• The Sinful Kitchen
• Three Dollar Deweys
• Three of Strong
• Twinflower Cafe
• Uncharted Tea
• Woodford F&B
• Verbena
• Via Vecchia
• Rover Bagel, Fish & Whistle,  and Banded Brewing in Biddeford
• Finest Kind and Fika in Saco
• Bev’s Cafe and 50 Local in Kennebunk
• Maine Meat in Kittery
• Treats in Wiscasset
• Seafolk Coffee in Rockport
• Lotso Tacos and Gather in Yarmouth
• Vesta in North Yarmouth

Portland Buy Local has issued a statement about businesses participation in the strike.