River Cow Orchestra at Yj's Snack Bar

Hippest place in the Crossroads Arts District. Y.J.'s Snack Bar, a small cafe in Kansas City, Missouri, attracts art school hipsters and jazz musicians for a weekend brunch or a cup of coffee. Unlike most hangouts staffed by hungry aspiring artists, the employees at Y.J.'s traveled the world on the house. The snack bar's owner, artist David Ford, buys each employee who works for him at least one year a round-trip plane ticket to wherever they want to go--Italy, Spain, Morocco, Guatemala, even Kansas City, Kansas, if that's where they really want to go. So you can imagine staff retention is very high...

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Hippest place in the Crossroads Arts District. Y.J.'s Snack Bar, a small cafe in Kansas City, Missouri, attracts art school hipsters and jazz musicians for a weekend brunch or a cup of coffee. Unlike most hangouts staffed by hungry aspiring artists, the employees at Y.J.'s traveled the world on the house. The snack bar's owner, artist David Ford, buys each employee who works for him at least one year a round-trip plane ticket to wherever they want to go--Italy, Spain, Morocco, Guatemala, even Kansas City, Kansas, if that's where they really want to go. So you can imagine staff retention is very high.

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