Word: barista
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...don’t know what kind of stores [the researchers] went to, but if you look at how our system is set up, the customers are taken care of one at a time,” explains Peet’s veteran barista, Kendall Howse. “All the drink orders go to the screen, so there’s no way for gender to come into play...
...movement—“to make politicians face their neighbors, influential movers and shakers, and yes, their family members.”Even operating within a pro-choice view, there is no need for abortion to be excessively public. Not sharing your most recent abortion with your barista or with the woman who waxes your eyebrows or with the nice man who does your taxes does not mean that our culture is not tolerant of your right to have one. There are all sorts of things that are not cut out for public discussion. For example, the number...
...saunter up to the counter of a certain café, heavy books in tow, caffeine levels rapidly dropping, we wave to the other regulars who are slumped in their deep, cozy chairs. The ever-present barista greets us at the register. Fantasizing about our chosen libation, we open our parched lips to order. From far away we hear the cold voice speak the damning verdict: “Sorry, we don’t open till three.” Rebuffed, we look around again. This time, we realize that the peers we had previously perceived as erudite scholars...
...With it go the black-clad servers of coffee and sass. I’m not a masochist, but there’s a charm in culling an eye-roll or heaving sigh from a barista disappointed at how I stumble for a half-second before rattling off an order. The joint’s attitude is nicely summed up by its counter-top sign, which depicts an all-too-cheery blonde chatting it up on a mobile phone. The following words are written alongside: “Hey! Cell phone-face! You’re out of line...
...with us” move, I feel somewhat invincible in my comfortable position of “stuckness.” In other words, they can’t stay mad at me forever.When Will, one of my unemployed (amendment: he’s now employed as a Starbucks barista) ’06 roommates all but moved-in this fall, indefinitely, I knew I had to pursue this topic. He’s become a waddling juxtaposition—a Kong VIP and NFL prospect sharing a shower with Daedalus flies and Spee junkies.He didn’t even...