Beloved local restauranteur can't sell coffee or tea because Starbucks strongarmed the landlord

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There’s probably a ton of it in port in San Juan. Seems to be a lot there.

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Just a heads up - there’s no “n” in restaurateur.

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are you disappoited?

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If you’ve developed a taste for bog water.

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There’s a good reason there are no Starbucks in Italy.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/28/517783805/starbucks-to-open-in-italy-home-of-espresso-in-2018-italian-cafes-say-bring-it

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I don’t, generally speaking, drink from the restrooms, and especially there.

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Jokes on you - its ALL bog water.

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Yup. According to the linked story, the Arepa Lady had a restaurant in a different location where the lease came to an end for some unstated reason. They found somewhere new in a block which contains other stores including the Starbucks.

Starbucks apparently negotiated a clause that the landlord wouldn’t permit other units in the same block to sell tea or coffee.

Presumably they pay the landlord a commensurate rent for the privilege (or agreed to a longer term or something).

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For me, I say that because it’s another case of if you skim the headline and the post, you get another data point lodged in the brain of “Starbucks=big corporation=bad”. Which might be true, but it’s really not in this case. It’s lazy narrative reinforcement over facts. It’s Truthiness. Which is all endumbening.

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