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http://consumerist.com/5025306/coffee+shop-threatens-to-punch-customer-in-his-dick

I googled "ghetto latte" like the article suggests, and discovered that the expresso with ice thing is actually a big controversy in the coffee shop world. whodathunkit?

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I always envisioned coffee shop employees as pacifist hippies and/or level-5 vegans.

The more you know.

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they dont fuck around with their espresso

Posted: Jul 17 2008 01:49 pm

lol all that over iced espresso.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 02:08 pm

LOL.

I say if they want it the way they want it, they should get it the way they wanted it.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 02:09 pm

but its not burger king

Posted: Jul 17 2008 02:38 pm

Fuck Burger King man. I got stuck in a booth last time, because the table was to fucking close to the seat, yet on the outside of the booth was this pointless 2-foot gap between the bench and wall. Fuck Burger King.

But yeah, that coffee thing is odd. At Starbucks I get a Doubleshot of espresso on ice all the time...keeps ya up for HOURS.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 03:13 pm

The store owner was in the right. If he chooses not to offer something, then the customer has the right to get it somewhere else. The customer was just being a crybaby prick, because they didn't sell the stupid cofee he wanted. Big deal. I'm sure there's a starbucks not a block away. But he chose to be smarmy about a company's menu options, so he deserved to be punched in the dick.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 03:17 pm

Burt Reynolds wrote:

The store owner was in the right. If he chooses not to offer something, then the customer has the right to get it somewhere else. The customer was just being a crybaby prick, because they didn't sell the stupid cofee he wanted. Big deal. I'm sure there's a starbucks not a block away. But he chose to be smarmy about a company's menu options, so he deserved to be punched in the dick.

I agree. The store owner has the right to decide what he will and will not offer, and if the customer doesn't like it, he can get the fuck out. No one is forcing him to go there. He doesn't have any sort of god-given right to get whatever the hell he wants there. If he doesn't like it, he can take his business someplace else.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 07:06 pm

aika wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

The store owner was in the right. If he chooses not to offer something, then the customer has the right to get it somewhere else. The customer was just being a crybaby prick, because they didn't sell the stupid cofee he wanted. Big deal. I'm sure there's a starbucks not a block away. But he chose to be smarmy about a company's menu options, so he deserved to be punched in the dick.

I agree. The store owner has the right to decide what he will and will not offer, and if the customer doesn't like it, he can get the fuck out. No one is forcing him to go there. He doesn't have any sort of god-given right to get whatever the hell he wants there. If he doesn't like it, he can take his business someplace else.

But that's what the customer did. He said fuck it and left. He is in no need of a dick punching.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 07:14 pm

DarknessDeku wrote:

But that's what the customer did. He said fuck it and left. He is in no need of a dick punching.

He said fuck it and left - but then posted on the internet that the only way he'd go back was with matches and kerosene. The manager was just responding to a threat of arson. Confused

Whatever. To me it sounds a bit like a pissing match between two guys. Very Happy

The customer could've taken his business elsewhere and dropped it, but instead he had to post vaguely threatening comments for all to see. The manager was just responding to that. Stupidly. But both guys were being stupid in my opinion.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 08:51 pm

aika wrote:

DarknessDeku wrote:

But that's what the customer did. He said fuck it and left. He is in no need of a dick punching.

He said fuck it and left - but then posted on the internet that the only way he'd go back was with matches and kerosene. The manager was just responding to a threat of arson. Confused

Whatever. To me it sounds a bit like a pissing match between two guys. Very Happy

The customer could've taken his business elsewhere and dropped it, but instead he had to post vaguely threatening comments for all to see. The manager was just responding to that. Stupidly. But both guys were being stupid in my opinion.

Oh... I missed the arson part.

Still, he is allowed to post whatever he wants to on the internet. No dick punching needed there.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 11:00 pm

I don't think people threaten each other enough with dick punches.

Posted: Jul 17 2008 11:35 pm

In the end a stupid pissing contest. As well, a business should try to cater to there customers needs, but also, customers don't need to be dickwads about it, ask, talk to them, if no, move on, it's fucking coffee, and I HATE COFFEE for shits sake. Be a man, drink an energy drink, take a diet pill, smoke a full flavor cig and got to work, or what the fuck ever.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 12:56 am

They wouldn't serve it over ice, so he gets the triple shot and a cup of ice. I love it. And speaking of Burger King, this reminds me of a story.

For a while they discontinued the Rodeo Burger. My buddy asked if they could just throw some onion rings and BBQ sauce on his cheeseburger. They wouldn't do it. So he bought a couple of cheeseburgers, large onion rings, and got some BBQ sauce. He made his own where they could see him, then went up by the counter and ate it in front of them like an asshole. He was an asshole and blew the whole thing out of proportion. But he was only doing because they were kind of being assholes about it.

I get that the guys didn't serve it over ice. I get why. But not allowing him to take it and doing it on his own is kind of bullshit. It would have been like if they would have told my buddy that since they knew what he was up to, they could sell him the rings with his burger. He did get the espresso and the ice, but the owner said they weren't supposed to do that. If he hadn't got the ice, and I were him, I would have told them I was gonna go get my own ice and do it anyways just out of anger.

I'm not saying who was right and who was wrong. Policy is policy. But it sounds like they were both probably being dicks about it.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 02:34 am

That's just ridiculous. That would be like a restaurant serving chicken and having ketchup but refusing to let you use it together. I side with the consumer on this one. If he wants to "Ruin" his coffee as the owner puts it, so be it. Having a completely ridiculous rule like that is just bad business. Like one of the comments said, if you served it you would save more on the expensive coffee by not having to give as much with all the ice in the cup.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 03:30 pm

S. McCracken wrote:

I don't think people threaten each other enough with dick punches.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 04:06 pm

Both parties are full of shit. On the one hand, the owner has the right to not offer something a certain way. On the other hand, the customer has the right to combine whatever he buys in any fashion he wants to. As far as the insults go, it's just two assholes being two assholes.

On a side note, the Consumerist is one of my favorite websites.

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This article was fantastic and is the reason why I love America.

1) The shop owner is in the right. He doesn't have to allow anyone onto his property for ANY reason. He also doesn't have to sell anything for ANY reason.

2) The guy buying the coffee is every fucking American who comes across a stupid fucking rule. They find a way around it.

3) The threat of arson is kinda ridiculous.

4) The threat of dick punching is fucking hilarious. But is so not the way to win business, or win a legal battle (should it ever go there).

So what should the owner have done?
He should have sucked it up. In the long run this will hurt his business more than it will help it.

As for these "getto latte's" are people seriously this cheap? How many people do this? It sounds like it tastes bad and wouldn't be worth the $1 in savings.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 05:27 pm

Blackout wrote:

S. McCracken wrote:

I don't think people threaten each other enough with dick punches.

I dont think you've got the balls.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 05:29 pm

Shut up, Dorn wrote:

Blackout wrote:

S. McCracken wrote:

I don't think people threaten each other enough with dick punches.

I dont think you've got the balls.

I'll do it.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 05:30 pm

You dont have a cock or balls, so you automatically win.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 05:31 pm

No, you see, Aika's penis was one of the ones she saw Laughing

Posted: Jul 18 2008 05:34 pm

M3GA MAN wrote:

You dont have a cock or balls, so you automatically win.

You got that right, dammit. I fucking win. Don't forget.

Posted: Jul 18 2008 05:37 pm

Unless. Theres one way a guy can win, but that includes a knife or a chainsaw and you screaming like a bitch.