Gorilla Coffee on Strike

astigmatism · May 2010

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

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

pitu · October 2010

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

MOD · October 2010

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.

robnyc · October 2010

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.

mougar · October 2010

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.

piano · October 2010

“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.

smokin joe · October 2010

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

squindar · October 2010

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.

robnyc · October 2010

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.