Dear reader, one of the main purposes of coffee shops is to come and get away from it all; to focus on school or business work in a relaxing atmosphere; to meet and chat with friends over a delicious beverage; to take a break from the fast-paced outside world and relax for a few. You expect a nice, clean, mellow store, regardless of what’s going on behind the bar. You come for the quiet atmosphere and clean space.
But, dear reader, there are some people who don’t agree. Some people feel the need to make your coffee shop into their own trashcan or their kid’s personal playground. This ruins the atmosphere for everyone.
Don’t get me wrong; I love to clean. If I could clean all day (as I’ve mentioned before), I would be in bliss. However, when I walk out into the lobby and see balled up trash and an empty drink when the trashcan is literally 5 feet away, I have to wonder why we even have trashcans.
You can’t even make it to the trash can?
Oh, dear customer, you expect the lobby and tables to be clean? Well how about you stop spilling crumbs all over the table and leaving your trash everywhere thinking that someone else will clean them up. Have you heard of the Campfire Rule? Well then apply it before bitching at baristas to clean up someone else’s mess, only to leave your own trash on the tables when you leave. Manners are evidently lost upon you.
If a coffee shop is expected to be clean, then it’s also expected to be a quiet place for you to do your work or pass time chitchatting amongst yourselves. So why on earth do you bring your children into this space? Giving them enough sugar to make them hyper is not going to ease your headache, so why would it anyone else’s? Exposing your screaming children to strangers so you can sit down and relax is just rude.
On the best of days your barista’s like for children is minimal, but when I hear the squealing sounds of sugar induced hyperactivity children allowed to run around spilling their sugary confections (and don’t get me started on giving them coffee), the low embers of dislike blossom into full fledge rage.
Your children bouncing off the walls make me question why evolution favours reproduction.
Get your drinks and take them to the park so they can run around, where, you know, their supposed to be running around. Don’t subjugate people who are trying to get work done to your screaming spawn.
In short, dear reader, know that your baristas feel for you when you walk into a coffee shop that is dirty and has wild children running amok. We do, dear reader. We know you are coming to get your drink and to get some work done. It also just so happens there are those who think coffee shop means “trashcan” and “daycare”, ruining the experience of those that do come in. My heartfelt apologies.
Barista Problems. 