Over 20,000 Sign Petition to Stop Starbucks From Coming to Yosemite

NBC Bay Area ^ | Jan 24, 2018

[nickcarraway]

A spokesman for Yosemite said they are simply trying to meet the demands of visitors

Nearly 23,000 people have signed a petition expressing "deep dissatisfaction" with the decision to open a Starbucks at Yosemite National Park.

The Starbucks, which is slated to open this spring, would not be a freestanding store but rather part of a food court attached to Yosemite Lodge.

Online protesters say they are concerned that the arrival of Starbucks at one of America's oldest and most venerable national parks would open the door to other big chains.

A spokesman for Yosemite said they are simply trying to meet the demands of visitors who want "food and drink that is accessible, of good quality and at a reasonable price."

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The coffee outlet would be licensed and operated by multinational corporation Amarak, using the Starbucks logo and products. A contract between the park service and Amarak prohibits them from overruling Starbucks or other vendors so long as they are providing goods and services outlined in the contract.

[albie]

Good! Keep the snowflake, commie a-holes out of somewhere!

[colorado tanker]

Some people really need to get a life. Coffee is already served at the Lodge - how does it matter who makes it?

[Mark]

Does Star Bucks offer customers plastic straws?

[neverevergiveup]

Please, don’t turn Yosemite into a liberal enclave. It belongs to all of us. Nothing like making percolating your own coffee on a camp stove.

[1Old Pro]

Wait until Wal-Mart moves in.

[ifinnegan]

Modern Luddites.

I guarantee, all leftist SJW.

[GingisK]

All commercial venues should be kept out of the national parks.

[dp0622]

In 50,000 years, will the people who rediscover the park think that the starbucks was formed by nature?

[IYAS9YAS]

...visitors who want "food and drink that is accessible, of good quality and at a reasonable price."

Well, they'd get 1 out of 3. Not quite a Meatloaf ballad in the making.

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[rightwingcrazy]

I think Yosemite is in the part of California that has not yet been turned over to the Dark Side.

[LouieFisk]

“All commercial venues should be kept out of the national parks.”
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I agree! Harumpphh!! Take out the toilets, too! And the rangers - if people die, well, that’s life.
We can’t have visitor actually enjoying their visit!!!

[HereInTheHeartland]

I will start a petition to support Starbucks coming there.
Who will sign it?
Just have to push back on the collectivist anti-business mentality

[LouieFisk]

“Well, they’d get 1 out of 3. Not quite a Meatloaf ballad in the making”
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Certainly not affordable - as coffee. I consider Starbucks as a dessert place, so you’ll pay more than you would for just a cuppa joe.

[FatherofFive]

Nothing like making percolating your own coffee on a camp stove.

So true. The highlight of many campouts with Boy Scouts (before they became gay embracing) was the first cup of campfire coffee

[Mears]

“We can’t have visitor actually enjoying their visit!!!”

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If someone actually needs a Starbucks they should vacation in cities.

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[LouieFisk]

“If someone actually needs a Starbucks they should vacation in cities.”
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I agree! Let’s make tourists as feel as unwelcome and uncomfortable as we possibly can!! Like I said: first, remove all the toilets!!!

[Mears]

“Like I said: first, remove all the toilets!!!”

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That would encourage the homeless from San Francisco to visit———keep the toilets. :-)

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[DennisR]

Well, there’s coffee and then there’s coffee. If it is not made from freshly-ground beans, I’m not buying it.