When a sospeso is ordered, the customer pays for two coffees, but only receives one. That way, when a person who is homeless or otherwise down on their luck walks into the café, the person can ask if there are any coffees held in suspense, and can have one as a courtesy of the first customer.
— Caffè sospeso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via slantback)
If a San Francisco café encouraged this, would I be pissed or would I be happy? I mean, this is a city with over six thousand homeless, over 5% of the national homeless population, where many cafés let people wander in and beg from table to table. This city already killed most of my sympathy for even the mentally disabled homeless who can’t get (or refuse) psychiatric help. Now do I want them pitching a fit because no one bought a sospeso?
Fuck, when I started writing about this I thought it was a good idea.
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