Blue Bottle, the artisanal coffee retailer popular with hipsters from coast to coast, just informed employees that part-time workers will not receive health benefits, effective January 2015. A tipster reached out to Valleywag with the news and the company confirmed the change.

If there's anyone more precious than a coffee snob, it's the tech investors who plowed $45.7 million into Blue Bottle Coffee, which Slate calls the Apple to Starbucks' Microsoft.