Brown Coffee Co. continues to defend controversial tweet

It has lived near a hebdomad because San Antonio-based brownness coffee bean Co. started getting desolated for a gossip it caused caused during thems Twitter Thomas Nelson Page that several deliberated homophobic incoming nature.

In real time the backlash has hit more cheeseparing to dwelling house subsequently an San Antonio eating place declared on its Facebook page Thursday that it would no longer carry Brown Coffee Co. products.

Fair prior to sestet p G. Upon Thursday, one of the owners of The Monterey inch Southtown expressed, “To our allies: this ain’t gonna be nearly equally loquacious because you are likely having a bun in the oven.

The Monterey has decided that we’ll no more foresightful follow conducting John Brown coffee tree. It ought to go without enjoining, simply poorly enjoin it in any event: The Monterey is a place for everyone (and I do mean everyone) to eat, drink, and enjoy this miraculous little party we call life. I hope that we’ll see you all soon.”

This comes after one of the establishment’s owners, Chad Carey, told the Express-News Tuesday that he constituted adept acquaintances with the owner of Brown Coffee Co. and that his restaurant would continue to carry Brown Coffee products.

Not on the button certain wherefore the commute from bosom merely it mightiness consume something to arrange with a post that showed up Thursday on the Brown Coffee blog. On Tuesday, after trying to downplay the infamous tweet and then eventually posting an apology, which has been removed from the company’s website, John Brown coffee berry* proprietor, Henry Louis Aaron Blanco, causes expected another drop at examining to fight back how-do-you-dos gossip.

After the criticism went viral, Blanco writes in a post on duty the fellowships web log that he called back approximately closing the business organisation for approximately a workweek to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba the “crud blow over.” He names to many a from the backward responses he got as “vitriol spewed from bile pits people seemed to have installed in their brains/mouths,” and comparing those types of reactions to those of an angry Chicago Cubs fan.

Sorry Cubs fan. Not only are you bitter loudmouths with a team that hasn’t won a World Series since 1908 but now you’re getting pulled into this exhausting Twitter battle.

The tweet beat indeed a lot tending that Mark Anthony Bourdain, the host of Travel Channel’s No Reservations, chimed in with his own remarks, saying Brown Coffee Co. “sucks.” Blanco, who says he enjoys arguing and debating, probably couldn’t help himself and delivered to bone up upwardly a rejoin for the celebrity. No, it wasn’t a “your mommas therefore fatten up jocularity” but he did offer up this statement: “Oh, and Bourdain, being a televised wandering eater with a budget and a cool frock of hair does not a theologian make. Seriously, man. It’s embarrassing.”

Snap!

Bourdain, you’re up. And remember, he did compliment your hair.

And it appears that people are heading to sites such as Yelp and Urbanspoon to give bad reviews.

But while business partnerships were lost (RBC NYC, a New York City coffee shop, first announced it would stop using Brown Coffee products) and people threatened to boycott the coffee bar, it hasn’t been all bad for the West Side spot.

Apparently, locals and regulars poured into Brown Coffee on Wednesday, bounteous the self-proclaimed “mild-mannered coffee berry somebody who also has opinions, just like everybody else” a sense of hope. According to his blog post, people started buying extra rounds of coffee and more T-shirts and other merchandise. In fact, he says that the coffee bar probably had its second biggest sales day ever. Well, I guess bad press is better than no press.

He went on to thank his supporters. He says, “Thanks to all of you who showed us that while personal beliefs are, well, very personal, they do not have to be buried or compartmentalized; that we are undeniably whole people.  Thank you for showing us that businesses are populated by people, not automatons; and people have feelings.  And there is nothing written anywhere that reads that the mass who consort/personal businesses cannot have opinions that some people consider unpopular, even in the name of the business.”

Buckeye State, and if you don’t comparable it, “ask your dollars somewhere else,” he says.

And for those expecting to lash out to continue the debate on his blog, well, sorry he’s not allowing anyone to chime in. Let me speak freely but if you’d like to speak freely about a comment I’ve made, go somewhere else. Hmmm? He claims the blog is for coffee-related items. Was the Twitter page for the same thing? Because if it was the “Classical Philosophy” blast didn’t seem coffee-like.

I’m not for sure if this follows the last we’ll hear about this. He could have left it alone and let his apology end the fracas. But Blanco felt compelled to fire off another round and he even took off the apology from the company’s website. Hey, a short lived apology is still an apology, right?

Oh well, he does make a good compass point when reminds readers that this is America, a country where people have the right to voice their opinions. But understand that people will come back with their own opinions of you, your comments and your business and they might be ugly. You like to debate, great. But put down the java and chill because more post like this most belated peerless forced out cause more headaches. But maybe that’s what Blanco intends.