• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        This is the first time I’ve heard about these stripper coffee shacks. I want reviews (since I doubt I’ll have enough money to ever visit one)

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          They’re pretty cheap if you’re in the area, but they are also as trashy as you would expect. My review is… like if you combined a Starbucks and a Hooters with less clothes, put them in a food truck or temporary shack // shed like easy to set up location and most of them have a drive through option if you need coffee and titties on the go. It’s not as crazy as it sounds and I’m actually surprised they really aren’t a more common thing. I guess one thing that helps is that it is illegal to sell alcohol at a strip club in Washington State so strip clubs were already in the coffee business when the idea was created. It’s a little funny because all the strip clubs let you BYOB, you just can’t buy or sell it at the club.

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          They’re usually called bikini baristas and its a woman in a bikini or lingerie who makes coffee. Some got busted years back for doing handies.

          I have never actually patronized one but there’s a few in my area, mostly in gas station parking lots. The operations can be pretty fucking rough.

          I always cringe when I see the poor girl throwing on a bathrobe to cart the wastewater across the lot to the gas station slop drain since there’s no internal plumbing in her road facing booth.

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            Yup, I used to live near Seattle and passed a couple on my way to literally anywhere. A lot have a cowgirl theme (one near me was shaped like a boot). I don’t know how good their beverages are (never went to one), but they were quite popular, because sex sells.

            I never heard about the handies, but it honestly doesn’t surprise me. I did hear about massage parlors having happy endings, which is largely the same thing. WA is usually pretty lax about enforcement of stuff like that unless there’s a complaint.

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        6 months ago

        So are we talking Christina Ricci in chains or more like Kim Basinger riding Michael Shannon?