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Maryland Starbucks Employee Suspended After Labeling Customer's Cup With 'Monkey:' Reports Maryland Starbucks Employee Suspended After Labeling Customer's Cup With 'Monkey:' Reports
Maryland Starbucks Employee Suspended After Labeling Customer's Cup With 'Monkey:' Reports A longtime Starbucks customer in Maryland is up in arms after a now-suspended barista used seemingly racially-charged language to deliver her order, according to multiple reports. Monique Pugh, who has frequented Starbucks for two decades, said that she visited the coffee shop in the Westfield Annapolis Mall, but when she picked up her venti Caramel Frappuccino, it wasn’t her name that was affixed to the label. Instead of “Monique,” the receipt on the side of her cup read “Monkey,” which she believes was racially motivated, to which an employee flippantly responded, calling it a mistake w…

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