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Starbucks in hot water again

KFI: Just two weeks before Starbucks is set to shut down their stores nationwide for racial bias training, more accusations of racism are surfacing after a Latino customer discovered a racist slur written on his coffee cup.

It began at a Los Angeles-area Starbucks when a Latino man named Pedro ordered two coffees from the store and received his cold coffee drink with the name ‘BEANER’ written on both cups instead of his name according to NBC4.

The slur on his cup was no accident, Pedro said, because the barista called him by the correct name once the order was ready.

When he alerted management to the racist slur on his cup, he says Starbucks offered him a $50 gift card.

“I didn’t accept it because it’s like an insult overall,” he said.

Starbucks released a statement about the incident saying they apologized to the customers for the slur.

“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.” more

26 Comments on Starbucks in hot water again

  1. Funny, now people will get a job at Starbucks just to further the racism agenda. Get a hired, write a slur on a cup, get fired and spark outrage. Liberals everywhere are plotting advancement of their cause at the expense of capitalism. It’s the perfect storm!

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  2. Remember the outrage with the press when Starsux made fun of Christians, Christmas and wanted to talk to white people about race?
    Yeah, me neither. The only support that company has ever received from me is my drinking their swill while visiting my liberal friends in CA.
    I tried to sell them on the Rogers company in Frisco but nooo, they were happy with the overpriced, inferior product.
    Liberals sure are funny, not funny haha.

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  3. @hanover, “cholo” is not a slur, it means buddies, friends, coworkers.
    Any word can become a slur, if you’re “sensitive”.
    There is a restaurant in LaHabra CA called El Cholo’s, been there since they cruised Whittier Blvd on Saturday night in the ’50s.
    Mexican-American owed and operated.
    Looked it up, 1925 when they named it that.

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  4. I got a note at a local Senor Froggy’s one time when I was eating lunch there for the server to know where I was sitting that said old guy sitting by himself. I didn’t get ticked off or anything, I thought it was kind of funny but still they could’ve used a little more tact.

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  5. @hanover, having worked with a bunch of “cholos” I can only speak from empirical evidence.
    They thought it hilarious when I responded to them calling me “a maricon” with, “Yes, I’m an American.”.
    We were cholos after that.

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  6. Last time I went to Starbucks the little fart knocker behind the counter wrote “dumb” on my cup. Probably because I smirked about his faggy demeanor. I couldn’t help it. He was shaved bald, wore makeup and had one of those miniature top hats on the side of his head. But I’m the dumb normal white guy. (sigh) “Two snaps”

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  7. This is one jewish company I will not go to. Horrid, over priced coffee. Is it even Kosher? Arrogant and ignorant baristas, with a tip jar, for NO SERVICE. Sadly, they are based in Seattle, where I live. Howard Schults, probably a faux jew, is just a money grubber.

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  8. “When he alerted management to the racist slur”

    racist slur ?

    is he not of the human race ?

    beaner is a term of endearment not slander !

    even if they wrote dumbass on his cup they still called him by name when his order was ready.

    what the heck do these wetbacks want ?

    what a brown snowflake he is.

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  9. I drive 1500 miles a week. This week, instead of stopping at rest stops to pee, I’ve stopped at Starbucks along the way. Haven’t bought anything from the anti-gun bastards in years, but it’s been fun running up their water bills.

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