The Great Starbucks Caper of 2006

Sweet John at Old Grey Poet was enjoying a pleasant foray into his local Starbucks store when he playfully snapped a pic of his partner who caught him, in flagrante delicto, and snapped back with his camera phone. Moments later a young barista approached John to inform him that picture taking was not allowed inside a Starbucks store by company policy.

Neither the young man nor the store manager was able to explain the whys or the wherefores of this policy. So here's what I'm thinking:

Grab your cameras and your camera phones to invade your local Starbucks for a picture taking frenzy. Bring your friends. Bring your relatives. Implore your neighbors to join you in the caper.

Then, unload your cameras and flood the internet with snapshots of the ubiquitous coffee shop. Surely that will do irreparable harm to their business.

In the meantime, I intend to interview a few baristas and store managers to discover if this policy is in effect in all Starbucks stores or only those in Great Britain. Then I intend to ask them if anyone can explain the rationale behind this policy. Surely it displays a remarkably overweening sense of importance vis a vis the Starbucks logo.

If possible, I'll snap pictures of said subjects, promising internet fame.