Chicago Starbucks Worker Did Not Write 'Loser' On Order Honoring Charlie Kirk, Company Says
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A Starbucks spokesperson said time-stamped surveillance footage shows an employee did not write the note, which had prompted online outrage and the store's temporary closure this week.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6199807

Starbucks now says that time-stamped footage from the store at 6332 N. Northwest Highway does not show any of its workers writing that message. Instead, the note appears “to have been added after the beverage was handed off, likely by someone else,” a spokesperson told Block Club.

Garretson wrote that a relative, whom she later identified as her mother-in-law, ordered the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys — an order known to be Kirk’s favorite drink — from the Starbucks. When the order was completed, the cup had “Loser” written on it, Garretson said.

“I’m talking 5 p.m. today, I want some form of action to the employee that represents this business that wrote ‘Loser’ on my mother’s cup,” the man, who is not seen on-camera, can be heard saying in the video, which was posted Wednesday.

“We’re looking for not corporate bureaucracy. I want immediate accountability; and if not, I will have this whole intersection lined with patriots today, I’m not even joking,” the man told a Starbucks employee.

What an emotional response jesus. Guy sounds like a loser.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    891·
    24 hours ago

    I love the implication that not only did some Starbucks employee take the time to memorize Charlie Kirk’s favorite drink AND assume anyone ordering this incredibly basic combo was doing it to honor him, but also decided to write something on it that would get them fired. In an environment that almost certainly has cameras everywhere. That they thought anyone outside their cult was going to believe this incredible mound of horse shit is amazing. They really are sending their best.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        9·
        23 hours ago

        I honestly feel like his favorite order going viral is fair. Like all those people changing their avatars to Clippy after Louis Rossmann explained why he did so.

    • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      22 hours ago

      The idea that the employee would care about it at all is pretty far removed from reality.

      They don’t care. They just want you to take your order and go away.

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
        21·
        21 hours ago

        Really they just want you to go away-- they don’t care about your order either… Getting the order right just makes you go away faster.