Bodacious Baristas Bomb in Belfair

[Benjamin Barrett]

This is also called sexpresso. The Seattle Times had an article last
year or the year before on the phenomenon. One customer said that if
he was going to pay five bucks for a cup of coffee, he wanted to get
it from someone dressed sexy (or something like that). BB

On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Doug Harris wrote:

>
> Call 'em baristas, sommeliers, servers or whatever; just don't
> dress 'em too suggestively. So say the folk in Belfair WA, where
> "barely covered baristas"  were judged by local authorities to
> be, um, too much of a good thing. Providing a whole new meaning
> to the 'do you want milk with that' question you might hear where
> coffee's just coffee, the scantily-clad misses at a nearby 'Espresso
> Gone Wild' were reportedly (by CNN
> http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/08/06/
> pkg.bikini.baristas.barre
> d.kiro) to be "really packing in the customers." But residents of
> Belfair told a CNN reporter they 'just wanted [them] to put on some
> clothes'. One interviewee described the barish baristas as "adult
> entertainment." In a sense, all baristas kinda sorta are that, aren't
> they?
> dh

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