Posted on 01/19/2016 5:07:34 AM PST by Citizen Zed
"Bikini baristas" --employees that serve coffee wearing little to nothing -- have been a growing trend to perk up coffee sales.
But in Washington State, there's a movement afoot to crack down on scantily-clad servers at drive-through coffee shops.
According to a new video from Zagat, Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan is part of efforts to mandate just how much clothing should be worn by barista babes.
Fagan told Zagat. "It should be all about the coffee and not all about the body."
He proposed an ordinance requiring coffee stands featuring bikini baristas to post signage indicating to the public what kind of "uniforms" their employees might be wearing ensure employees be indoors and out of the public's view. In July, the proposal was shot down --the latest in a string of attempts to try to restrict the baristas over the years.
"There are a lot of business owners out there that are still trying to figure out how to build a better mouse trap," said Fagan about selling skin with food and drink. "Unfortunately, here in the city of Spokane, that better mouse trap, in their minds, would be to sell sex."
Most coffee huts sport workers wearing revelaing bikinis. Â Some like Bare Beans Expresso wear just pasties over their nipples. According ABC News, Sarah Birnel, a former coffee shop owner who owned three Spokane bikini barista stands in 2013, said her sales doubled after adding half-naked women to the mix.
And it's not just half dressed women. There's an all-male drive through coffee shop called "The Banana Hammock," for example.
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I volunteered serving water at an ultra marathon recently. Had multiple signs...TOPLESS water station 1 mile... TOPLESS water station 1/2 mile...TOPLESS water station 1/4 mile.
Then a screen just before the water booth hiding the servers. As the tired marathoners reached the booth, they saw a bunch of GUYS, in shorts without shirts, serving the water.
That’s more better.
Posts 37 and 38 are far more appealing and ladylike.
Wait until the Syrian refugees get there.
I thought people only got uptight about such things in the Bible Belt, not the liberal northwest.
It’s all about who controls the culture. People on both ends of the spectrum believe they have a right to not be offended.
And so does blue, green, or purple hair. The first thing I think of is “druggie”.
It’s amazing what a journalism graduate has to do to enter the workforce.
” Look at at those nasty tattoos”
Yea, I have to agree, tattoos take away from a woman’s God given beauty.
We were in Washington state over Christmas. The SIL warned us about getting more than we were expecting at some of the little tiny drive-thru coffee stands. The hot pink drive-thru’s were dead giveaways, but I had no desire to peruse the offerings. I like cheap coffee, but not cheap baristas.
When XYZ pays the taxes, payroll, insurance...(the BILLS), then XYZ has some say.
Arguably, we’re discussing issues after the horse has left the barn (no, that’s NOT a euphemism for this thread /s) RE: Civil Rights acts fall-out vs. biz. (See: smoking bans, gay wedding cake, etc.).
Instead of letting the MARKET decide, govt (at all levels) has let loose Fascism. Course, with the current ‘education’, I don’t see many people coming against.
I want cheap coffee, no tipping.
Hilarious married guy...”i just go for the coffee” because he likes outrageous coffee prices!!!
I'm not sure being clothed would have made a difference there.
LOL...good one.
In the halcyon days of my misspent youth, tattoos on women were a tremendous time-saver; allowing me to quickly distinguish between the possible and the probable. Smoking served a similar function; and, regarding a tattooed woman who smoked, it was simply a question of when, not if.
That’s very interesting. Thanks!
Is that a bikini or a hair net?
I'd be doing heroin too, if I lived in that weather.
Fake blazing red hair, tattoos and smoking would pull me in like a TRACTOR BEAM in my 20s
Nearly died a few times from the drama but didn’t care. “Crazy in the head. Crazy in the bed”...
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