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Wow. I was tempted to give Ristretto some benefit of the doubt because Rommelmann isn't directly in charge, but she obviously has the keys to their twitter. This is all beyond the pale. Who publicly attacks their ex-employees for believing survivors? Luckily there are so many great coffee shops in Portland, no need to patronize this one any more!

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It's amazing how people like this shoot themselves in the face every time. If only they'd kept their mouths shut or, I don't know, taken some time to think and self-reflect. Nope. Nothing but hateful, entitled bullshit. Good to know. Good luck motherfuckers, I hope your businesses crashes and burns, you absolutely deserve nothing less.

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At this point they should probably find a buyer, before the business is worthless. With great privilege comes great responsibility and these people clearly aren't up to the task.

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"Het up" - Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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Oh jeez. I agree that 'call-out culture' can be annoying, and Portlanders getting high and mighty about coffee and burritos is dumb. But on the other hand, this lady sounds like a coked up white supremacist. She should just go away forever so I can stop thinking about $15 bags of coffee that I'm never going to but anyway

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"Het up." It's bad enough that everything she's being accused of likely occurred, but this, right here, should be the end of it. We get it: You read the Guardian, saw Trainspotting, grabbed a BA fall fare from JFK to Gatwick, and wish Bill's still sold Curly Wurlys. Also, we're painfully aware of how Portland isn't your "real" home and that the people here exist solely for your book ideas or disdain... or, in some cases, both! You've lived a life here that the plebes couldn't understand, but the mean kids in Manhattan and Brooklyn are already tired of your bullshit and have heard your Libertarian dinner party screeds about nine times too often. It was all good here, so long as you could ignore the kids at hubby's shop and keep giving interviews to Reason, but now you actually have to interact with people. In Portland! About "social justice." It's all so beneath you. Maybe it's time to get that place in Friday Harbor and remove yourself from all of this. You can tell friends about the time you saw Chris Pratt at the Lime Kilns and host a summer signing at that cute little bookstore by the movie theater. People there will love you. They'll APPRECIATE you, and they won't find you a dull, fatuous, egocentric bore. Not like the unwashed neophytes here.

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Thanks Merc for the continuing coverage. I have enjoyed Ristretto at their own cafes and other cafes who source them. I feel sad for their current and former employees.

I think Ristretto has two choices: either focus their business shipping to cafes across the country with views of the wife, or have the husband and wife owners step away from the business, replaced by new management, as did Uber.

Small businesses should be thankful for creative thinkers like Coddou. It's an art to honor them, but not implement their every idea. It's the art of managing millennials and gen z. Are the owners millennials? That would explain a lot.

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Kind of ironic to suggest you have nothing to do with the business, after being given control of the company’s communications apparatus (ie Twitter).

“Writing on company letterhead, his wife denied any connection to the business.” LOL

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Example of "keep digging" syndrome. Probably too late now for RR.

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If he values his wife more than his business, I hope he realizes that they need to focus on improving their relationship and core viewpoints on human interaction, and the business is over. If he values the business more than his wife, I hope they split up peacefully, so that their own separate happinesses can be found.

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Reporter: "Why don't you just make 10 one dumber, and make that the dumbest?"

Rommelmann: "...mine goes to 11..."


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