by Aaron Simon 
In North Brooklyn, a region overflowing with stellar independently owned coffee shops where the drip coffee doesn’t taste characteristically burned, it can be perplexing to see a packed Starbucks (we get it, your cousin is visiting from Connecticut and needs a white chocolate mocha frappuccino).
Now, there’s one more reason to skip the ubiquitous corporate coffee house when in Williamsburg’s main retail stretch: Vermin.
The 154 N 7th…
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Last time I went there the worker put my lid on the counter and then on my drink. She gave me the nastiest attitude when I kindly asked her to remake my drink and not touch the bottom of the lid to anything before placing it on my drink. Gosh I’m so sorry I don’t want dirty counter germs in what’s going in my body!!
OMG! And along with that last lid she gave you a nasty attitude? They should also conduct a customer satifaction survey upon re-opening. Like a fresh new start kind of thing.
If you’re concerned with “counter germs” you should DEFINITELY not be eating or drinking anything from anywhere.
Truth—what a ridiculous request
That’s a ridiculous request. You’re a moron
I am sad to see it closed but when they reopen they should hire staff with better attitude! I understand is busy but we don’t get anything for free either!
Nah, this Starbucks rules. Everyone there is super nice.
Sorry about your “counter germs” but if you’re worried about that you should probably just start buying air-locked astronaut food and not getting anything from anywhere.
Idiot