Posted on 05/17/2018 7:17:29 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Starbucks has been accused of racism yet again after a Latino customer at a Los Angeles area store found a racial slur scribbled on his cup. The man, who would only be identified as Peter, told CBS Los Angeles he received a drink with the word “BEANER” on it at the Starbucks in La Cañada, California. “En español es ‘frijoleros,’ ‘beaner,’ you know, in English,” said the victim’s friend Miguel Acosta. “He went to Starbucks, and they asked for his name, and his name is ‘Peter,’ and they wrote this ‘beaner,’ And he’s saying that’s not fair.” Acosta added that he does not understand why Starbucks targeted his friend and believed his friend did not deserve to be treated that way. The store manager declined to give a statement, but the coffee company released a statement saying it has “apologized to the customer.” “This is not indicative of the type of experience we want our customers to have when they walk into our stores. We have apologized to the customer directly and are working to make things right,” Starbucks announced in a statement. The incident took place just over two weeks before the coffee chain is scheduled to close 8,000 of its company-owned stores in the U.S. to make its employees undergo racial bias training. Starbucks implemented the training after an incident last month where employees at a Philadelphia Starbucks called the police on two black men, leading to their arrests for trespassing. Police did not file any charges against the men. The training was the company’s response to a social media-fueled boycott of the coffee chain when a video of the incident went viral.
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It’s not a huge stretch of the imagination that “Beaner” and “Peter” sound similar, if it’s noisy and perhaps Peter has a heavy accent. That the order taker typed it into the system seems to make this a more likely scenario.
Exactly.
A couple of Black guys violate the trespass law and essentially get $150K.
A Mexican doesn’t even violate the law, is actually a paying customer, seems he should get double......$300k.
I’d like to thank Starbucks for all the laughs. I am looking forward to a hard drop in your stocks....that should be hilarious.
Thank you Starbucks.
I think this is a take off on an old SNL skit. A pizza delivery guy walking through a crowded room hollering “pizza for asswipe”. A guy walks over and tells him “no, no. It is azwepae it is French.” Pizza guy looks at him knodding and says “yeah. What ever. That’ll be $7.40. Asswipe”.
Hard to believe a milenial Starbucks barista would know the term beaner. It is so o,d and outdated.
I'd have written "hasta la vista...baby".
My name is Witbeck.
Reciept: WETBACK
CaChing!
This is a scam just like the two Black women who sued Southwest Airlines because one of their flight attendents sung this little ditty! “ Eeenie meanie minee moe, take a seat we gotta go!” Liberals, particularly minority Liberals have honed “being offended at just about everything” into a new political science.
Just wonder what the cup says when Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality goes in for his cup of overpriced Joe? But the thing is, he’s a really decent Conservative who would laugh it off if they misspelled his name inadvertently.
The answer to The Starbucks Problem is for people to stop going to Starbucks.
They keep screwing with people of color(??) the only people that will go to the crap establishment will be white folks. Waiiit? You don’t suppose that’s? naah. Not such an enlightened company.
Lord help me but I do love that movie!
LOL.....
Reporting a screwed-up coffee order at Starbucks enables the MSM to avoid reporting the attempted coup attempt by the FBI.
The only Starbucks I visit is at Barnes & Nobel...better coffee places here...
And, his given name isn’t “Peter”, it’s “Pedro” for cryin out loud! Even his buddies call him “Pedro”. The storefront was in La Canada LA!
NOBODY goes by their “gringo equivalent” in La Canada. Hell, even the guys ^actually named^ “John” go by Juan there.
Do away with names - use numbers like most fast food places do
Of course I was about to say that the guy probably scribbled "Beaner" on his cup so he could sue them.
Appears not...
Of course just an apology and free coffee (for those who call it that) for a year or so won't suffice. Dude will probably get a franchise of his own.
(Then again OTOH, could it be... photoshop?)
I saw this on my cup before, I assumed it was short order slang for what I ordered.
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