• @[email protected]
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      610 months ago

      Those used to be all over the place. The girls were pretty scantily clad but never naked. A lot of them did get shut down for prostitution though.

      • @CascadianGiraffe
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        310 months ago

        The shut down ones were usually Ladybug. They had different owner and different kind of staff. At cowgirl they had college coed and you paid a dollar or two more for your coffee and tipped well because they were super nice. The other place had skanky strippers on drugs, $20 coffee and you sometimes wondered if the coffee came with an STD.

        Haven’t been to Seattle in years, I hear many didn’t survive.

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          210 months ago

          To be honest, I prefer my coffee to be prepared by fully clothed people and I never really went to one. And coffee makes me feel really freaking weird so I just make my own if I really want some. I just remember the news stories and the sarcasm about it in my friend group.

          I think I’ve seen a few of them lately they’re nowhere near as common as they used to be though.

      • @CascadianGiraffe
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        410 months ago

        Drive up coffee shops with barely clad baristas.

        Unfortunately the guy who owns Ladybug (same concept) has purchased most of the bikini coffee shops. It’s now WAY over priced and the quality of service is WAY lower. You’re more likely to get skanky stripper flashing than college coed flirt. Also apparently that guy is an asshole on many levels according to the girls. Many of them are closed now.

        Source: I managed a club and have known many of the bikini baristas around Seattle.

        And this is Seattle. If you want to ogle a bikini girl your choices are these shops or Alki during our annual one-week heat wave when you don’t need to wear multiple layers.