This is just too funny, and could not happen to a more PC company than Starbucks. A Hispanic customer claims that when he ordered coffee at a Starbucks, they wrote his name on the cup as "Beaner."

Now the customer, Peter, speaks no English at all, and had to relate his ordeal through an interpreter friend. Of course, there's no possibility that this could have been a simple matter of misunderstanding someone who speaks no English. Nooooo. It can only be one more bit of evidence that Starbucks is an utterly racist company-- probably run by Nazis!

I love it.


Starbucks Facing More Racism Allegations After Latino Customer Receives Cup With ‘Beaner’ On The Label

LA CAÑADA (CBSLA) — Nearly two weeks ahead of their day of nationwide racial bias training, coffee chain Starbucks is facing new accusations of racism after a Latino customer discovered a racial slur written on his coffee order.

A Latino man named Peter received a cold coffee drink labeled “BEANER.”

“En español es ‘frijoleros’, ‘beaner,’ you know, in English,” said the victim’s friend Miguel Acosta.

“He went to Starbucks, and they asked for his name, and his name is ‘Peter,’ and they wrote this ‘beaner,’ Acosta told CBS2 News through a coworker who was translating. “And he’s saying that’s not fair.”

Acosta said his friend didn’t deserve such treatment and doesn’t understand why he was targeted.

“Mi amigo está triste también,” said Acosta. “My friend is also sad.”

Patrons at the La Cañada Starbucks Wednesday were taken aback by the news.

“I’m shocked,” said one woman. “I go to that Starbucks almost every day.”

“I’m disappointed in Starbucks, I mean, that’s — when you put something in the computer and put a name on something, you’re labeling someone, and I think that’s not right,” said one man.

Even people who were at the Starbucks said they would have thought twice about buying coffee there if they had heard the news earlier.

“And I guess it brings back a lot of discrimination. It brings back a lot of old, you know, growth that we should’ve had before,” said a customer on the patio.

The store’s manager refused to talk to CBS2’s reporter on camera, but the company did release the following statement:

“This is not indicative of the type of experience we want our customers to have when they walk into our stores. We have apologized to the customer directly and are working to make things right.”

The incident in La Cañada comes a month to the day after a black man at a Starbucks in Torrance claimed he was denied access to the bathroom.

Last month, cellphone video revealed another incident in which two black men who were waiting for a business meeting were arrested two minutes after going into a Philadelphia Starbucks.

As a result of that video that went viral and the online backlash the coffee giant received, the company announced it was closing all its stores in the U.S. to conduct “racial-bias education geared toward preventing discrimination.”

The incident in La Cañada might become another case study for employees to dissect.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...st-cup-beaner-label/

Peter - Beaner. Maybe she/he heard him wrong.

Especially because his birth name would have been Pedro. He's trying out the English "Peter" and just maybe not getting it quite exactly right.

But I say the hell with that! It was racism, pure and simple, and Starbucks needs to schedule another afternoon shut down! Meanwhile, free coffee for everyone named Peter. Or Pedro. Or Beaner.

Well Peter could sound like Beaner with a heavy enough accent. That's why Pedro is Spanish for Peter......so there's no possibility for confusion.

I’ll bet that his accent was so thick that she probably heard beaner. Not going to get too upset about it either way. Maybe he should speak some English before he gets upset

I always assumed it was a tradition there to butcher the names on cups.

My name is Carmine. You should see the crap they have written on the cup-- worse than the coffee itself. My favorite was "Karma."

Sounds like someone missed training sensitivity day.

Better have another.

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“Mi amigo está triste también,” said Acosta. “My friend is also sad.”

Yeah, well, cry me a rio.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
My name is Carmine.

I would have written "Connie's husband" on your cup...

As to the idiot "barista", I have a feeling she couldn't understand Pedro's Ingles. Hablar much??

Even if you didn't understand his name, what moron would think writing "Beaner" as the name for a hispanic person wouldn't attract negative attention?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Peter - Beaner. Maybe she/he heard him wrong.

Ya think?

Watching the PC id10ts trip all over themselves is endlessly amusing

Now, if the "journalists" in this country were still actually journalists, they might question the likelihood that somebody, in this day and age, would actually do something so "culturally insensitive" on purpose. They might ask themselves "Hmmm... 'Peter'/'Beaner'. I wonder if it was an honest mistake, born of a heavy accent and mis-hearing?" But, nope: There's a social agenda to be pursued!

Then again: Giving the the order-taker, barista, what-have-you the benefit of the doubt, he/she/whatever might also have employed a bit of common sense and, upon believing they heard "Beaner," asked: "¿Que?"

Gabby said his name is Beaner!

I watched the video, just curious to see if they had the actual cup, and they blurred out everything but the B in 'Beaner'. I guess that's a no-no to even type or see now? What nonsense. I guess we are supposed to say he was called the 'B' word

Someone needs to go in and tell the barista that your name is 'Gringo' and then wait a day or 2 and take a picture of the cup and plaster it everywhere crying about how offended you are.

How does counter help serving coffee and pastries rate the title: Barista, but some poor guy/gal ringing up your groceries is still called a cashier?

Why not dream a b.s. title for them too?

Like say: Financial Foodstuffs Executive or something equally silly.

Barista my butt, they're coffee clerks not professionals.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Someone needs to go in and tell the barista that your name is 'Gringo' and then wait a day or 2 and take a picture of the cup and plaster it everywhere crying about how offended you are.

I hate Starbucks and everything they make, but this is tempting.

Mexican Americans don't like to just get into gang fights
They like flowers and music and white girls named Debbie too
Mexican Americans are named Chata and Chella and Chemma
And have a son-in-law named Jeff
Mexican Americans don't like to get up early in the morning
But they have to so they do it real slow
Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school
And they take Spanish and get a B
Mexican Americans love their Nana's and their Nono's and their
Nina's and their Nino's nano nano nina nono!
Mexican Americans don't like to go to the movies where the
Dude has to wear contact lenses to make his blue eyes brown
Cause don't it make my brown eyes blue...

Mi amigo tiene calambres menstruales y no se siente amado. Además, alguien lo llamó un beaner.

Well damn, that’s terrible.

I think they need to shut down all the stores, for a day, and have another sensitivity meeting.