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One of the things most people associate most closely with Seattle and the Puget Sound region is dying off.
Faced with mounting market saturation and a tough economy, a number of espresso stands have turned to sex appeal to attract customers. Their baristas are required to report to work in halter tops and short-shorts (or miniskirts), and the stands themselves are often decorated with the “naughty girl” silhouette decals so often displayed on semi tractors.
Pretty soon, if this sort of thing catches on any more widely, women will stop buying lattes, and that will be the end of the industry.
Meanwhile, a few stands are fighting the trend. Down in the lower Snoqualmie Valley between Monroe and Duvall, the following sign was on display for some weeks:
NO PASTIES - JUST GREAT PASTRIES
And more recently, here in Sultan, we’ve seen this one:
OUR BIKINIS ARE FOR THE BEACH
So we’ll see how it turns out. Personally, I think that a nice piece of biscotti with my coffee (to the extent that I drink coffee) is plenty; cheesecake is probably overkill.