It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and managers at White Rhino Coffee were on a mandatory weekly district call. Two things stick out to two employees who were part of that call. One was that their employee discount at the cafe was being reduced from 50% to 30%, but that wasn’t what caused people to walk off the job later that week.
White Rhino Coffee (WRC) is a Dallas-based coffee shop founded by Chris Parvin, with more than a dozen locations across North Texas. The company was founded on the concept of providing a third space where everyone is welcome. A motto shared on its website is, “A cup of coffee won’t change the world, but how we share it might.”
Margot Stacy had been working at White Rhino since June 2025. She was a manager at the downtown Dallas location until she quit early on Thursday, Jan. 22…