Navy SEAL DESTROYS Starbucks for kicking out cops, pledges proceeds from his coffee to fallen officers
In an “In-Your-Face” move, a former SEAL and his wife are slamming Starbucks for its shabby treatment of several uniformed Police Officers, having a pre-shift cup of overpriced water. The barista asked them to either move from the sight of another patron, or just leave. Seems their very presence was making coffee-boi “feel unsafe” by their very presence. So they left.
Salvatore and Dana DeFranco were just opening their own coffee shop when they heard of the debacle, and decided to take it to Starbucks in an unmistakable manner.
Posted by Kyle S. Reyes
Lest you missed it – here’s what happened.Police enjoying a cup of coffee were kicked out of a Starbucks coffee shop in Tempe, Arizona on the Fourth of July.
Why? Because a customer complained they “did not feel safe” with the cops present, according to reports.
The five officers were sipping coffee at the Starbucks before their shift started. That’s when a barista asked them to move out of the complaining customer’s line of sight or else leave.
Sal is a former Navy SEAL. He and his wife, Dana, run a couple of Battle Grounds coffee locations in Massachusetts. They have a strong online presence and are finalizing plans to open a half dozen more locations in the near future. They were outraged over the news.
“These are men and women who serve and protect our communities every single day. For someone to say they didn’t feel safe around them is ludicrous,” said Sal.
Dana, who oversees the daily operations at Battle Grounds Coffee, said the core problem was how the store handled it.
“You’re going to kick out five protectors because you have one person who can’t handle reality? Shame on that store. If that happened in our business, not a single one of those officers would have had a bill… and we would have kicked out the complainer,” said Dana.
Sal pointed out the hypocrisy of Starbucks.
“In 2018, two black men who weren’t paying customers were arrested for trespassing after they refused to leave a Starbucks. Starbucks turned around and closed some 8,000 locations for a business day to conduct ‘racial bias training’. When does Starbucks plan on closing for a day to train their employees to respect law enforcement and our veterans?”
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Too bad they’re back East in Mass-hole-chusetts. I’d love to go buy a “cup of overpriced water” from them.
Maybe even visit my old growing-up stomping grounds (Malden, MA).
But alas, such is not to be. For now.
I wish them the best in their business enterprise. They seem to have the first basic rule correct, “don’t piss off half your customer base”.
Gonna check them out this weekend on my way back from the range. I am still in the DPRM.
Rockport.
You can shop from them online, too:
http://battlecoffee.com/shop/
Fuck Starburnts, shitty tasting over-priced excuse for coffee, I hope they go broke.
Fine by me, I haven’t bought a cup of Shart-farts in at least eighteen years. During my days as a Trucker I was once at a “Shart-farts” franchise in the Northeast USA where there was a self-entitled snot-nosed candy-assed preppy in line ahead of me who ordered something with a two foot-longed name and NAGGED the staff every bit of the way until my caffeine-starved ass hollered out “AND HE WANTS IT STIRRED WITH A 12 YEAR OLD VIRGIN ALTAR BOY’S PENIS!!!”. Yours truly was quickly escorted out of that dump while I thought “He’s NOT worth the jail time!”.
I would have laughed, had I been there.
I would have tripped the Soi Boi with his “a two foot-longed name” macchiato, soy, ginger, tumeric latte, as soon as he turned around with it.
Let’s see if I got this right;
Refuse to serve a minority…get sued.
Refuse to serve a Muslim…get sued.
Refuse to serve a non hetrosexual…get sued.
Refuse to serve a group of people who lay their life on the line everyday for your sorry ass…no harm no foul, move along nothing to see here?
If I was one of the officers involved, I’d sue the hell of out Stink Bucks. I’ve wired a many of their locations for telecommunication equipment, but have never purchased a single cup of their crap.
When I was managing a KFC back yonder, I would give a free chicken dinner to every officer that patrolled our area. Even being in a semi sketchy part of town, we never had any thug problems.
BZ to Battle Grounds Coffee. I normally don’t buy online. Just may have to make an exception here.
I spoke with a WaWa employee and asked them what was behind the free coffee for law enforcement idea.
She said when they come around and hang out they get robbed a lot less. It’s good business.
Cheap insurance policy.
Good thinking on their part.
I’ll take “Unidentified coffee-boi patrons with an open arrest warrant” for $200, Alex.
Not a coffee drinker, despite having tried to acquire the taste. Might need to see if I can ship some Battle Grounds for Mrs. Whitey, though!
Wait… a firefighter who doesn’t drink coffee? Now I’ve seen everything. Next you’ll be telling us you don’t eat chili!
Try being an Infantryman who doesn’t smoke, drink alcohol, or drink coffee.
Try being a firefighter who can’t handle any kind of hot sauce stronger than ketchup or BBQ sauce.
Some wiseasses once sabotaged the ketchup with sriracha. My vengeance was such that they never dreamed of doing that again.
Inquiring minds would like to know what happened.
The same goes for old-school USN/USMC Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers, and Naval Aircrewmen.
Back in the day, a good pre-flight breakfast the morning after a big night at the Club often consisted of a cup of coffee, a cigarette, and a puke.
I will never admit to violating the 12 hour standoff from bottle to throttle. But on occasion I have had to give my oxygen bottle a very thorough preflight check.
Yup. There’s nothing quite like a few gulps of 100% oxygen to help get rid of the thumping red mist before one’s eyes and to enable one to begin seeing clearly again. Or so I’ve been told.
Overheard this gem from a Marine Aviator early one morning at Base Ops at a famous (pre-Tailhook) East Coast NAS when he was briefing his division prior to departure on the next leg of their cross-country flight.
“OK, if any of you assholes crash and survive, crawl back into the fire, because after last night you don’t want to be taken alive.”
I like chili. It doesn’t like me back. That wasn’t a problem in my teens and twenties, but now in my mid-thirties it costs me sleep. Thus, I had to give it up.
It’s my understanding that all Starbucks coffee shops are company owned so the policy regarding serving LEOs should be standardized across the nation.
As a capitalist I have no problem with a privately owned coffee shop or franchisee owned location establishing it own policy regarding who is served and/or allowed to remain in the store to drink the beverage.
As a denizen of the PDRMA I carry concealed and do not patronize Starbucks. Me and my spousal unit prepare our coffee at home so I rarely buy coffee except when traveling and then I prefer Dunkin Donuts (founded in Quincy, MA).
There are several private coffee shops across the country I believe that ask law enforcement and uniformed military not to patronize their establishments. One was in the news not too long ago I just cannot remember the name.
Was it Hasta Muerte Coffee?
Oakland Coffee Shop
My last cup of coffee was back in the very early 70’s at a Chock Full Of Nuts joint over on Lexington Ave NYC during a coffee break if I remember correctly.
Jeezuss—sure hope this guy is a real SEAL.
I’ll buy a bag.
https://battlecoffee.com/
Haverhill, eh? A bit out of my way but when I’m in the area they’ll get my business.
You can buy from them online, too. 🙂
For those too lazy to look up Starbucks Statement. Here it is….. It mentions nothing about firing the idiots who pulled the shit, but that’s an employer, Employee matter.
The Coffee with a Cop idea sounds great.
I refuse to stop drinking my overpriced coffee because one employee in a franchise halfway across the country is a fucking cunt.
An Apology to the Tempe Police Department
July 07, 2019•1 min read
Dear Chief Moir and the entire Tempe Police Department,
Thank you, Chief Moir, for the conversation today. On behalf of Starbucks, I want to sincerely apologize to you all for the experience that six of your officers had in our store on July 4.
When those officers entered the store and a customer raised a concern over their presence, they should have been welcomed and treated with dignity and the utmost respect by our partners (employees). Instead, they were made to feel unwelcome and disrespected, which is completely unacceptable.
At Starbucks, we have deep appreciation for your department and the officers who serve the Tempe community. Our partners rely on your service and welcome your presence, which keeps our stores and the community a safe and welcoming place.
Our strong relationship with the Tempe Police Department has provided us the opportunity to host several “Coffee with a Cop” events in area stores, which bring residents and police together to discuss relevant issues and find common ground. We look forward to continuing to strengthen our relationship with you, and we agree that the experience of your officers requires an important dialogue – one that we are committed to being part of.
What occurred in our store on July 4 is never the experience your officers or any customer should have, and at Starbucks, we are already taking the necessary steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again in the future.
I will be in Tempe this evening and welcome the opportunity to meet with any of you in person to address concerns or questions.
Sincerely,
Rossann Williams
executive vice president, president U.S. Retail
Starbucks Coffee Company
It’s a nice letter, but talk is cheap. When we hear about consequences for those involved, we’ll know that it’s not just empty bullshit.
Exactly. That “partner” needs to find a new job,
Yeah…notice how they at not summarily closing all their stores for one day of “death by sensitivity training”.
As Neil young said, “WORDS”. (That’s a hanging curveball right over the plate for Hondo.)
Who could have seen this coming? Literally anyone with common sense.
When you encourage and allow people to shoot up drugs in your bathrooms, dopers will assuredly feel paranoid and uncomfortable with cops being in the place.
https://www.today.com/food/starbucks-install-more-needle-disposal-boxes-bathrooms-nationwide-t152791
You can’t have it both ways. You either court the criminal element or the law abiding. As a business, you think you’d know which side to pick, but when your virtue needs maximum signalling…
This would not help the military from the extreme libtards but my solution for the police officers who are denied service in uniform is to handcuff them and take them to the station for interference with a police officer. Maybe a overnight in jail will give them some common sense
More operator coffee.
Fuck.
Everyone needs a gimmick now days.
Apparently Starbucks Coffee would much rather rely on gangbangers, drug addicts and thugs for protection anytime something goes wrong!