600 East Cafe - Milwaukee

I don’t doubt that the food here is great. However— I stopped in to get a coffee this morning at like 8:30 and found a mostly empty cafe. I ordered a large iced latte with honey and then moved a little to wait for my drink. A few employees and customers entered and left. After 10 minutes or so it was clear to me that I was the only customer in the cafe, and my latte does not exist. The employee who took my order evidently had to leave promptly for mars or something. As someone who had the slightest chance of not being late to work before this delay, this was infuriating (not to be dramatic). I informed a different employee who was apologetic and made my drink quickly. My last bit of bad news is that it was the worst drink I’ve ever paid for. It was as though I was handed military coffee with a splash of milk, and no sign of ice in my now room-temp cup of liquid. Don’t know what happened here, team.

My new favorite spot to order breakfast from while I'm at work.

I use to work at this place and was treated poorly I experienced racism I experience mistreatment I experience mishandlement of money from general manager my main problem was the racism part I'm an African American woman and was the only African-American woman working in the establishment at the time I had to write a work complaint upon Miss Jill ruffing with the eeco expressing the things I have encountered with at 600 East Cafe with Jill ruffing who runs the cafe I was experiencing racism since January 30th all the way up until February 23rd of 2024 due to my skin I and other staff also had a problem with money that is owed to us through tips that's supposed to be presented every Friday but without a paper trail there was a problem asking about that with Jill ruffing I was told to scrub walls scrub sinks I was also giving a list of things different from other coworkers since being the only African American woman present at the time of business I was looked down on I was talked about I was treated different this business definitely gets one star or little to none treated me like modern-day slavery very prejudice very unfair wants the power of control she gets mad when you speak up for yourself she also fired another co-worker who was speaking of for herself due to the fact that we get tips every Friday and things wasn't on a paper trail was told this is her business and she will run it like how she will run it I have reached out to the eeco workforce to have this complaint and other complaints filed against ruffing at 600 East Cafe very racism place running by Jill ruffing

What a lovely and kindly staff who works here ! Hot beverages were really good and the place is beautiful ! Enjoyed our time here and we'll be back on our next trip ! Thanks for all ????

Good service, friendly staff, and good food and coffee. Very peaceful atmosphere. I