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Turns Out Starbucks Has a Pretty Good Reason for Butchering Your Name

In this completely fictional yet totally plausible video, East Village-based comedian Paul Gale explains the rationale for Starbucks baristas for egregiously misspelling customers’ names. Posing as a Starbucks worker, Gale informs us that it’s all done on purpose, ostensibly in service of spreading the gospel of Oprah chai and iced no-whip Frappuccinos on social media, which is a conspiracy theory more people should get behind. It would have been funnier if this were an actual corporate-issued video, but we’ll take it. Also, we feel bad for “Gessika.”


Post by Paul Gale Comedy.

[Gothamist]

Turns Out Starbucks Has a Pretty Good Reason for Butchering Your Name