Are you serious?
I'm a bit irritated that it has come to this. I understand the city is trying to use a loophole to impact the business because of the complainers but talk about discrimination. Personally, I don't really care about these kinds of espresso bars, esp since I have a great machine at home and don't have the need to buy my drinks through espresso stands. I think that as long as the workers are following the rules regarding exposure laws and aren't doing anything illegal, who cares that they are serving drinks in their bikinis?
Put your money where your mouth is and don't support these businesses if you don't like them but unless they are breaking laws, back the fuck off.
When did we become a society of nannies? Ugh another reason why I want government to be smaller, I don't need it to tell me what I can and cannot do in regards to every little aspect of my life.
Bellevue to shut down Knotty Bodies drive through
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Just days after it opened, the scantily-clad baristas at Knotty Bodies in Bellevue may soon be serving fewer drinks.
On Tuesday afternoon, city officials said they planned to shut down the business because it is not complying with city codes.
City spokesman Tim Waters said code enforcement officers have a cease-and-desist order to close the stand until the owner builds barriers around the drive-through lane.
Owner Lisa Caughron said they've been open all day and haven't heard anything official from the city regarding a shut-down order.
She said two business operated a drive through at the same stand for years before Knotty Bodies took over.
"The drive-through espresso sign that we have is the sign from the old owners," she said. "So I don't understand how there's even a possibility that can't be a drive through location."
The coffee stand has been a point of contention since it opened over the weekend in the parking lot of a Chevron station on NE 8th Street near a park.
On Monday night, area residents packed a City Council meeting to complain and demand that the city do something about the stand.
At the meeting, Deputy Mayor Claudia Balducci appeared to sympathize with those voicing complaints and she went so far as to suggest shaming customers by taking pictures of them and then posting the photos online.
"We've all got cell phone things. Anybody who doesn't want a picture of themselves being taken there buying coffee from a woman in a bikini and seeing it on the Internet -- that's a risk that you might be taking if you go to this place," she said.
Many Bellevue residents, though, want permanent changes to ordinances and zoning codes to prevent the sight of skimpy servers.
Source: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/72898717.html
Put your money where your mouth is and don't support these businesses if you don't like them but unless they are breaking laws, back the fuck off.
When did we become a society of nannies? Ugh another reason why I want government to be smaller, I don't need it to tell me what I can and cannot do in regards to every little aspect of my life.
Bellevue to shut down Knotty Bodies drive through
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Just days after it opened, the scantily-clad baristas at Knotty Bodies in Bellevue may soon be serving fewer drinks.
On Tuesday afternoon, city officials said they planned to shut down the business because it is not complying with city codes.
City spokesman Tim Waters said code enforcement officers have a cease-and-desist order to close the stand until the owner builds barriers around the drive-through lane.
Owner Lisa Caughron said they've been open all day and haven't heard anything official from the city regarding a shut-down order.
She said two business operated a drive through at the same stand for years before Knotty Bodies took over.
"The drive-through espresso sign that we have is the sign from the old owners," she said. "So I don't understand how there's even a possibility that can't be a drive through location."
The coffee stand has been a point of contention since it opened over the weekend in the parking lot of a Chevron station on NE 8th Street near a park.
On Monday night, area residents packed a City Council meeting to complain and demand that the city do something about the stand.
At the meeting, Deputy Mayor Claudia Balducci appeared to sympathize with those voicing complaints and she went so far as to suggest shaming customers by taking pictures of them and then posting the photos online.
"We've all got cell phone things. Anybody who doesn't want a picture of themselves being taken there buying coffee from a woman in a bikini and seeing it on the Internet -- that's a risk that you might be taking if you go to this place," she said.
Many Bellevue residents, though, want permanent changes to ordinances and zoning codes to prevent the sight of skimpy servers.
Source: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/72898717.html