You like to sit down with a nice cup of coffee and read the paper?

Well, if they're at San Francisco Starbucks, you're going to have to sit on the floor.

Hey, everybody. I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is Rightangle,

brought you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, this is one of those little stories that just says so much without even realizing what in the hell it's saying.

And by the way, I mean no insult to Christina Campadonico of the San Francisco Standard,

because you wrote a really nice article about this mysterious plague that is causing the tables and chairs of San Francisco downtown Starbucks to

disappear. And I'm going to read some of this from our article that came out just a couple of

days ago. Populated by a lonely high top table in a slim bar without stools, the place appeared to be

offering grab and go service only, even though

the cafe's floor was clearly large enough to accommodate tables and chairs. Scott, this

happened at a Starbucks on Kearney Street. Another one on Geary Street, the 400 block, which is

not the crappy part of Geary where I lived many years ago.

And one, on the 1,300 block of Market Street, these are pretty nice addresses.

But apparently, these are pickup only designed to be that way, despite having plenty of floor space.

And when Christina tried to, or when Christina did contact Starbucks corporate headquarters,

all they had to say was, that's the store model. What do you think they're modeling?

At first, I thought you were going to suggest that it was theft that was involved. That's what I

was thinking. Yeah, I thought it was shoplifting or shrinkage from, you know, employee theft or something like that.

Or that the, you know, to pick up on his phrase, maybe the store model is B.YOC. I mean, maybe it's

it's like a lawn chair in a newspaper. That's right.

It's like one of those lawn festivals that you go to and you have to bring your own chair to the concert.

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