Gorilla Coffee on Strike

pmonk wrote: Screw all that - only dopes buy $2.50 coffee!

Damn straight - us smart fellas go to Grumpy where it's $3.75.

Well...after all that, Gorilla has filed a libel suit against the NYT:
http://www.nytpick.com/2010/10/see-you-in-court-brooklyn-coffee-shop.html

pitu wrote: Well...after all that, Gorilla has filed a libel suit against the NYT:
http://www.nytpick.com/2010/10/see-you-in-court-brooklyn-coffee-shop.html

I love the first comment on that:

How on EARTH did your headline not include the words "gorilla suit"?!?

HAHAHA!!!

But really, I'm on the side of the NYT on this one, maybe Gorilla is just trying to get more press, a second 15 min of fame.

Not only are they suing the NYT they're also suing their former employees. Talk about stupidity. Just when people were starting to forget about it and moved on they bring it all back up and manage to make themselves look like even bigger douches.

RobNYC wrote: Not only are they suing the NYT they're also suing their former employees. Talk about stupidity. Just when people were starting to forget about it and moved on they bring it all back up and manage to make themselves look like even bigger douches.

The thing is pretty ridiculous, and it seems the judge is likely to make them lump it all into one lawsuit if it even goes that far. I talked to one of the former employees the other day and he first found out about the lawsuit when he read the article. None of them had even been served papers yet.

“Faults and all,” one resident told Cardwell, “this is a neighborhood institution.”

How is Gorilla a neighborhood institution? Since when did being open for 5 years make a place an institution? By those standards the laundromat nearby is a national landmark.

a deep full-bodied blend, with notes of despotism and a slightly dickish aftertaste.

Piano wrote: How is Gorilla a neighborhood institution? Since when did being open for 5 years make a place an institution? By those standards the laundromat nearby is a national landmark.

Good thing I am not currently drinking a cup of delicious but
over-priced coffee, because it would have just gotten spewed
all over my keyboard.

I have to wonder what the new current employees think knowing that the place they work for would sue them if they quit and said the place sucked to work for.

They're probably not allowed to think.

They probably all had to sign NDA's and 1-year non-compete contracts.

Judge Tosses Gorilla Coffee's Suit Against NYT For Posting Workers' Walkout Letter

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/11/us-newyorktimes-defamation-idUSTRE77A5QR20110811

http://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2011/2011-51502.html