Full-Time
Cafe Assistant Manager
Updated on 8/13/2026
Ascension
51-200 employees
Specialty coffee roaster and cafe chain
No salary listed
Dallas, TX, USA
In Person
Must be able to travel to all locations.
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- Specialty coffee experience is a plus.
- Reliable transportation and ability to travel to all locations.
- Ability to work nights and weekends.
- Strong team-building skills and clear communication.
- Strong organizational skills, problem-solving ability, and resourcefulness.
- High initiative and self-management skills, with willingness to take direction.
- Ability to stand for extended periods of approximately eight hours each workday.
- Support the Café General Manager, Assistant General Manager, and Kitchen Manager in all aspects of café operations, including hiring, training, scheduling, team leadership, inventory management, profit and loss, hospitality, and food safety.
- Work alongside the General Manager to achieve goals related to sales, cost of goods, labor, and pace.
- Participate in inventory, invoice, payroll, and schedule submission.
- Maintain standards of excellence for all food and beverages sold.
- Maintain a clean and safe work environment, ensure equipment is functioning, find solutions using available resources, and support adherence to the repair and maintenance budget.
- Expand knowledge of hospitality, food trends, and specialty coffee.
- Implement Ascension Coffee standards as directed by Brand Leadership.
- Drive café-level sales growth through improved service, clean merchandising, local store marketing, and events.
- Inspire passion and engagement across all teams.
- Coach team members by receiving and implementing feedback quickly.
- Forge strong interpersonal connections with people of all skill levels.
- Communicate concepts in ways that individuals understand and respond to with engagement.
- Participate in an inclusive, quality-focused culture and use thoughtful communication with team members, customers, and consumers.
- Specialty coffee experience.
Ascension operates in Dallas as a multi-channel specialty coffee business with a chain of Australian-style, all-day cafés and a wholesale roasting operation. Its cafés offer a chef-driven breakfast and lunch menu, plus curated wines and craft coffee, designed to act as community hubs. The company sources beans through direct trade in a farm-to-cup model, emphasizes fair pay and transparency, and uses an in-house team with Q Arabica Graders to approve every batch. Its goal is to provide high-quality, ethically sourced coffee and food while growing its café footprint and wholesale/direct-to-consumer channels and strengthening community and supply-chain transparency.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Guernsey
Founded
2012
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Ascension won 2026 Coffee Shop of the Year, strengthening brand credibility.
- Six Metroplex locations and wholesale channels diversify revenue beyond single-store traffic.
- The Southlake opening targets affluent family traffic and expands Tarrant County presence.
What critics are saying
- Southlake Town Square opening in late summer 2026 adds execution risk and lease burden.
- White Rock Coffee, La Réunion, and CulturCoffee intensify Dallas specialty coffee competition.
- A weak seventh store can trap Ascension in expensive leases and roastery overcapacity.
What makes Ascension unique
- Ascension combines cafés, roastery, wholesale, and DTC under one Dallas brand.
- Its Australian-style all-day café format pairs coffee, wine, and chef-driven breakfast-lunch menus.
- 2026 Tastemaker winner Ascension emphasizes direct sourcing and in-house roasting at Design District.
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Blizzard lawsuit against Project Ascension: wow private server case update 2026. Blizzard's lawsuit against Project Ascension, a top WoW private server, is ongoing. Get the latest on the case, DMCA claims, court deadlines, and what's next. 8 July 2026 by Mediosick Quick facts: Blizzard Entertainment's copyright infringement lawsuit against Project Ascension, one of the largest World of Warcraft private servers, is still ongoing as of July 2026. Filed on June 12, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the case accuses Ascension's operators of copyright infringement, DMCA circumvention, false designation of origin, and civil RICO racketeering across nine legal counts. Blizzard is seeking a permanent injunction to shut the server down, full turnover of Ascension's game client and code, a complete accounting of revenue, and statutory damages that could reach up to $150,000 per infringed work. Computer & Video Games Despite the legal pressure, Project Ascension remains online and continues releasing content updates for its player base, which it claims exceeds one million users. The latest developments: The lawsuit escalated on June 29, 2026, when Blizzard's legal team issued formal summons requests to the named individuals behind Project Ascension, giving the defendants 21 days to file a response with the court. Court documents warn that failure to respond within that window could result in a default judgment in Blizzard's favor, which is the same outcome that has closed out several prior private-server cases. Some community reports suggest the developers may be seeking additional time to formally respond to Blizzard's claims, which could push the case timeline further into late 2026, though this has not been confirmed through official court filings at the time of writing. Meanwhile, the case (filed as Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. v. Powell) is publicly viewable on CourtListener, and it names six individual defendants (mostly U.S.-based, with one in Australia) along with several companies Blizzard describes as shell entities used to move revenue and avoid U.S. tax liability. Blizzard alleges Ascension generated millions of dollars through its Donation Points system, an in-game currency used to purchase cosmetics and experience boosts. Project Ascension is the latest target in Blizzard's ongoing crackdown on unauthorized WoW private servers, following its high-profile 2025-26 lawsuit against Turtle WoW, which ended in a permanent injunction and a private settlement before the server shut down for good in May 2026. A smaller server, Stormforge, also closed after receiving a cease-and-desist around the same time. Unlike blizzlike servers that faithfully recreate retail WoW, Ascension is known for its distinctive "classless" system, letting players freely combine abilities, talents, and resources across all WoW classes to build custom character builds. Blizzard's complaint also alleges Ascension's infrastructure is tied to the Russia-based hosting provider Aeza Group, sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for enabling cybercrime, which Blizzard argues signals "willful intent to engage in unlawful activity." Notably, Turtle WoW's developers had previously appealed to Blizzard in October 2025 to consider a formal licensing framework for fan-run servers, similar to arrangements like City of Heroes: Homecoming. Questions for you: * Do you side with Blizzard protecting their IP, or do you think private servers like Ascension should be left alone if they offer a unique experience? * Do you think Project Ascension will survive this legal battle, or is it only a matter of time before they are forced to shut down? * What do you think this lawsuit means for the wider World of Warcraft private server community? Will other custom servers start closing shop out of fear? Mediosick 8 July 2026