PRUDES! New on CNN this morning that Mason County has shut down a recently opened Bikini style coffee shop due to inappropriateness. As you know, Portland just got its own Bikini Coffee downtown and it opened with much fanfare. I haven’t been. I think it is more hype than anything, kinda like if you had Clown Coffee or Vampire Coffee – just something to attract a niche customer base. Also, you can get coffee at Mary’s Club just a few blocks away…
Well, the residents of Belfair, WA (NW of Olympia on the Olympic penisula) don’t want any part of Bikini clad baristas. If you can, you should watch this CNN video report. I just have to laugh that everyone is up in arms over a few scantily clad women serving coffee. In the NW no less. Shouldn’t they be worried about the quality of the coffee? Some quotes that made me chuckle:
I feel we are essentially looking at a drive through stripjoint.
[CNN reporter] a location egged by vandals who don’t want sexy baristas in their town.
We’re trying to set an example for our children…
I can’t stop laughing. Vandals egged the joint? What kind of vandals do they have in Belfair? If bikini clad women are essentially a “stripjoint,” what do these parents do when they go to the beach? Oh, and let’s not forget…its for the children….don’t make me puke.
Thank you Portland for welcoming Bikini Coffee downtown with open arms.
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I can’t wipe the smile off my face after reading that setting an example for their children apparently includes throwing eggs at people with whom they disagree. Good example!
This is to funny!!!!!!! What I want to know is why do they feel the need to make such a big deal out of it! if you dont like it dont go simple as that! What a joke lets make an example by throwing eggs they need to open their eyes to the rest of the world but instead they are still couped up in there little bubble in belfair!!!!!!
While you may laugh at them, you could consider the semi-clad baristas a workplace accident waiting to happen. It’s bad enough when you pour HOT coffee over yourself clothed.
Imagine pouring over yourself without benefit of a single protective layer? Where’s OSHA when you need them? Or have you forgotten the woman who sued McDonald’s for having too hot coffee when she burned her thighs after her coffee spilled?
You can laugh at the community all you want. At least they are trying to have their own standards and enforce them.
Jose….
While I agree the idea of bikini clad baristas is fine and something you would see at the beach, I think it is worth noting that these baristas aren’t wearing bikinis. They are wearing pasties and panties at least from what I can tell from the video.
I personally don’t really have a problem with it, but I can see how some people would be upset about a nearly topless woman in clear public view. I mean, I don’t think you can show a woman in pasties on network television.
Anyway, I think the author of the article failed to clearly communicate that these women were in fact wearing less than a bikini.
I agree. Them are pasties my friend. Not the same as a bikini top or even a bra for that matter. Serving in a bikini seems ok to me but bare boobies with a couple of nipple labels? Not so much.
@Ken – Ha! That’s what I thought, too!
Seriously, you don’t HAVE to like it. I happen to hugely dislike the concept and motivation behind “Bikini Coffee”, but whatever! It’s innocent fun! There’s a market for it, and people enjoy it ~ moreover, people enjoy the controversy, eh?
Ok, I concede. It doesn’t appear they are wearing tops, just pasties. In the vid you can clearly see there is no backstrap.
But I do have to go along with other comment on the whole “if you don’t like it, don’t patronize it” bandwagon.
Oh well.
why do people think we want to see their body parts? if iam buying coffee i am not going to want to see someones body that may not be pretty to me as a mother and as a woman i think there are better ways to sell coffee without our children seeing almost nude girls i for one totally agree with closing such a place. i have lived in belfair almost twenty years and i am very proud of our town and for what we stand for, keep it up people we are not vegas! s.m.j.
Shirley, with all due respect, you are NOT a member of their target demographic.
“there are better ways to sell coffee without our children seeing almost nude girls…”
Dang, Shirley — you take your kids into a place that advertises scantily-clad women?
I’ve heard of some bad parenting before, but that’s reprehensible. I hope Children’s Services looks into this, for your childrens’ sake.
OK, I live in Belfair and the big deal is the fact that this coffee shop had a sign, literally half as big as the shop itself, facing the highway so NO ONE, including the kids, could miss it. The sign read “GOT PASTIES?” That was hard to explain to the kids.
Yes I live in Belfair too. It is a small community that is slowly growing. They want to keep it clean family town. Whats wrong with that? This world needs more places like it. As for the children, I think that is a excuse by women who don’t see themselves as attractive and it reminds them that. Me I’m a guy, I love women, but I would feel like a perv sitting in a line of pervs waiting for some girl barely out of school searving me coffee with hardly anything on. I would hope my kids teacher or someone else don.t see me. I have lived in Portland for about 10 years and this ain’t Portland. We also do not have gay people kissing out in the open either, sorry, its not as immoral as a big city yet. I saw stuff in Portland I hope to never see again. So if they want to try to hold on to what will eventually be a dream, let them, and remember they are from a small town where things are slower, so they are too, there not actually dumb. Have I offended everyone yet? Truth hurts……
Sorry my wife dont like that i love women, so i only love her, love you baby
If you go to any warm beach resort type place there are girls in bikini’s serving you everywhere. Because that’s the local style/dress. It’s hot out. As long as they turn up the heat in the shop I don’t see any problems with it. Or maybe install an indoor pool…filled with coffee?
I want to see a coffee stand with naked MEN serving hot coffee. Now THAT would be interesting, particularly if there was a spill.
Oh and not to fret folks, as soon as mid-October rolls around the scantily clad baristas will be donning sweaters and jeans.
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