SEATTLE One man thinks serving coffee is a real grind.
A Seattle coffee shop fired a barista who started a blog about the daily tribulations of his job.
Matt Watson, 30, was fired from All City Coffee after his anonymous two-week-old BitterBarista.com blog gained popularity -- up to a couple of thousand hits per day-- and was later identified by a competing coffee blog.
The New Jersey native, with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and aspirations to be a hip hop artist, made no mention of All City Coffee, or his real name for that matter, but the operators of Sprudge.com, the competing blog, put it together after Watson said what he was doing in his Spekulation tweets, The Seattle Times reported.
Sprudge.com outed Watson on Thursday: "There's a lot of anger in this blog, and while we love the well-worn barista cliche, it should be the stuff of mild parody, not an all-out assault on whomever walks through the door of your cafe."
Watson's posts were aimed at what he calls the 5 percent of customers who can annoy workers. The remarks did not appear vicious, but resembled more the reaction of a disgruntled teenager.
One post read, If you remind me four times that you've ordered decaf, guess what you won't be getting ... " Another post read, "I would remember your usual drink if you were a more memorable person."
He even poked fun at his boss, writing, "I like to use a lot of big words when I tweet, that way if my boss ever finds my twitter account, he won't understand any of it."
Watson said his blog was satire and that he had a good relationship with most customers and his boss, Seth Levy.
Watson said baristas are "probably an artist, overqualified people with pretty much college education across the board."
He said he worked at All City Coffee to make ends meet while pursuing a career as a hip hop artist under the moniker "Spekulation." On his site, Watson has released several songs in which he raps.
According to the Times, Watson emailed Levy saying, "This isn't bad press, it's actually really good press ... especially given your customer base and the type of neighborhood that Georgetown has become ... I'm just saying ... it could turn out to be a fun something that gives the place a little spike in publicity."
Levy didn't quite see it that way.
"He was writing about his boss during business hours," Levy told the newspaper. "I represent the business, the customers and the staff. I can't endorse what he was saying, whether humorous or not. It puts me in a difficult position, where if I don't respond that means I endorse what he's saying."
Watson hopes to put together a Bitter Barista coffee-table book.
The "Coffee Barista" is an occupation around the GPNW. Some would say just a person working in a very small drive-thru espresso stand. I dont frequent them because I only drink one cup of coffee when I get up in the morning. My niece worked in one for several months until the place got robbed. The GPNW had an espresso stand where the "servers" were in string bikinis...kind of like the "bimbo car-wash" tactict. The little espresso drive-thru huts around my area seem to be doing good business.
Calvin said
6:32 PM, 02/14/13
Speaking of Big Boobed Bimbos!!
The Krink said
11:09 AM, 02/15/13
Wow Calvin what pleasant surprise to see Rhonda Shear again. Think we all watched her late nights during her run of shows. She was like your own "I dream of Jeanie". Watching that video I remember her playful-sexualness. Went to wikipedia and found her birthday. Rhonda is all "Scorpio". Born Nov 12 1954 in New Orleans. Gemini Moon and a big gob of planets in Scorpio (Neptune is in last degrees of Libra conjunct Mercury in Scorpio) Neptune-Mercury-Saturn-Sun-Venus . The Neptune Mercury conjunction give her that ability to deliver some sexual fantasy via communication plus the Sun conjunct Venus which gave her one of the nicest female bodies known to man.
SEATTLE One man thinks serving coffee is a real grind.
A Seattle coffee shop fired a barista who started a blog about the daily tribulations of his job.
Matt Watson, 30, was fired from All City Coffee after his anonymous two-week-old BitterBarista.com blog gained popularity -- up to a couple of thousand hits per day-- and was later identified by a competing coffee blog.
The New Jersey native, with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and aspirations to be a hip hop artist, made no mention of All City Coffee, or his real name for that matter, but the operators of Sprudge.com, the competing blog, put it together after Watson said what he was doing in his Spekulation tweets, The Seattle Times reported.
Sprudge.com outed Watson on Thursday: "There's a lot of anger in this blog, and while we love the well-worn barista cliche, it should be the stuff of mild parody, not an all-out assault on whomever walks through the door of your cafe."
Watson's posts were aimed at what he calls the 5 percent of customers who can annoy workers. The remarks did not appear vicious, but resembled more the reaction of a disgruntled teenager.
One post read, If you remind me four times that you've ordered decaf, guess what you won't be getting ... " Another post read, "I would remember your usual drink if you were a more memorable person."
He even poked fun at his boss, writing, "I like to use a lot of big words when I tweet, that way if my boss ever finds my twitter account, he won't understand any of it."
Watson said his blog was satire and that he had a good relationship with most customers and his boss, Seth Levy.
Watson said baristas are "probably an artist, overqualified people with pretty much college education across the board."
He said he worked at All City Coffee to make ends meet while pursuing a career as a hip hop artist under the moniker "Spekulation." On his site, Watson has released several songs in which he raps.
According to the Times, Watson emailed Levy saying, "This isn't bad press, it's actually really good press ... especially given your customer base and the type of neighborhood that Georgetown has become ... I'm just saying ... it could turn out to be a fun something that gives the place a little spike in publicity."
Levy didn't quite see it that way.
"He was writing about his boss during business hours," Levy told the newspaper. "I represent the business, the customers and the staff. I can't endorse what he was saying, whether humorous or not. It puts me in a difficult position, where if I don't respond that means I endorse what he's saying."
Watson hopes to put together a Bitter Barista coffee-table book.
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Some would say just a person working in a very small
drive-thru espresso stand. I dont frequent them because
I only drink one cup of coffee when I get up in the morning.
My niece worked in one for several months until the place
got robbed. The GPNW had an espresso stand where the
"servers" were in string bikinis...kind of like the "bimbo
car-wash" tactict. The little espresso drive-thru huts around
my area seem to be doing good business.
Speaking of Big Boobed Bimbos!!
Think we all watched her late nights during her run of shows.
She was like your own "I dream of Jeanie". Watching that
video I remember her playful-sexualness. Went to wikipedia
and found her birthday. Rhonda is all "Scorpio". Born Nov 12
1954 in New Orleans. Gemini Moon and a big gob of planets
in Scorpio (Neptune is in last degrees of Libra conjunct Mercury
in Scorpio) Neptune-Mercury-Saturn-Sun-Venus . The Neptune
Mercury conjunction give her that ability to deliver some sexual
fantasy via communication plus the Sun conjunct Venus which
gave her one of the nicest female bodies known to man.