Case Study: Blank Street Coffee achieves 40-hour savings in benefits management with Rippling

Blank Street Coffee saves 40 hours managing benefits with Rippling + Sequoia

Blank Street Coffee, a 430-person cafe chain operating across the US and UK, needed to offer quality, affordable benefits to part-time and full-time staff while keeping its back office lean. The company used Rippling as its HR/payroll HCM platform and partnered with Sequoia to handle benefits administration, seeking a vendor that could take on open enrollment and reduce manual HR workload.

Rippling’s integration with Sequoia automated benefits plan syncing and enrollment—Sequoia handles plan selection and admin support while Rippling provides the user-friendly enrollment experience and payroll deductions. As a result, Rippling and Sequoia saved Blank Street Coffee 40 hours every open enrollment, improved employee access to benefits, eliminated the need for an in-house benefits specialist, and freed HR to focus on strategic priorities.

Blank Street Coffee

Gina Kim

Global Senior Director of People