Hey guys Drew Pawn from Stone Creek here. If you don't mind I'd just like to use my ad time to address what I think are pretty egregious anti small business takes from TC in big a couple of weeks ago.

You know, their opinions on tipping are well documented.

I personally would agree.

It's, uh, they're muddy waters right now.

That's not my beef.

My beef is with the insinuation that small businesses should leave the opportunity area of

app-based ordering to you the big guys like Starbucks and I just want to

recap why I think that's such a horrendous take primarily because we didn't choose this.

You know if you go back to COVID, the world's shut down, people aren't allowed in spaces,

the whole six feet thing, hey, you know, looking back back on that maybe not a great idea but that

was the world that we lived in so our only way of continuing to care for our customers

deliver coffee was to establish an app and get that get that rolling.

The world changed on us and we changed with it for sure.

And you know now here we are some four years later and those apps are still around.

People still get their coffee that way, they look for that.

It's an expectation now we didn't choose that.

That's not something that we decided we were going to put in place. It was forced on us.

And if you want us to just now cut out 30% of our cafe business because you don't like it when somebody orders that way.

You know, I just, I don't know what to tell you.

I've always been a big fan of Mr. T.C.

In his takes, I try to live my life by them, just a big ascriber to the T.C. way. So yeah, I think that we have some

work to do, but that there is a future but you know at first for someone I I've let big off the hook here but for somebody who claims to represent the little guy so much I was shocked to see him go along with this and not question it.

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