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07-16-2016, 06:27 PM
Coffee shop finds clever way to inspire good manners in customers
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Too "busy" to say please? This coffee shop wants you to pay up.
CUPS Coffee and Tea (https://www.facebook.com/CUPS-Coffee-Tea-114907785231602/?fref=ts), a small business in Roa**ke, Virginia, made Reddit chuckle (http://imgur.com/PAMrvHG) this week with its brutal new sign, which threatens an upcharge if customers don't say "hi" or "please."
SEE ALSO: Kind coffee shop employees comfort grieving customer at drive-thru window (http://mashable.com/2016/03/23/drive-thru-prayer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
In the end, the whole thing was a joke — ** one actually got charged more. But Austin Simms, the employee who wrote the sign, told a local CBS affiliate (http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Coffee-shop-in-Grandin-Village--386723151.html) that the spirit behind the sign was genuine.
"I decided because I need to solve all the injustices of the world to start charging more for people who didn't take the time to say hello and connect and realize we're all people behind the counter," he said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/coffee-shop-manners-sign/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Too "busy" to say please? This coffee shop wants you to pay up.
CUPS Coffee and Tea (https://www.facebook.com/CUPS-Coffee-Tea-114907785231602/?fref=ts), a small business in Roa**ke, Virginia, made Reddit chuckle (http://imgur.com/PAMrvHG) this week with its brutal new sign, which threatens an upcharge if customers don't say "hi" or "please."
SEE ALSO: Kind coffee shop employees comfort grieving customer at drive-thru window (http://mashable.com/2016/03/23/drive-thru-prayer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
In the end, the whole thing was a joke — ** one actually got charged more. But Austin Simms, the employee who wrote the sign, told a local CBS affiliate (http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Coffee-shop-in-Grandin-Village--386723151.html) that the spirit behind the sign was genuine.
"I decided because I need to solve all the injustices of the world to start charging more for people who didn't take the time to say hello and connect and realize we're all people behind the counter," he said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/coffee-shop-manners-sign/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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