You might recall the excellent parody video about why baristas at Starbucks get your name wrong when you put it in your order. Well, apparently there is one coffee shop belonging to the super-chain where this definitely would not happen.
The Starbucks at the George Bush Centre for Intelligence Langley, Virginia (Homeland fans will be familiar with the name) is where the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is based and baristas working there are requested not to ask the name of any of their clientele.
The food services supervisor at the shop, who asked Washington Post to be kept anonymous, revealed: “They could use the alias “Polly-O string cheese” for all I care but giving any name at all was making people — you know, the undercover agents — feel very uncomfortable.”
“It just didn’t work for this location.”
According to reports, some CIA officers have referred to the coffee shop as ‘stealthy Starbucks’.
In addition, there are no customer loyalty cards due to officials worrying that data stored on cards could potentially out secret CIA operatives. All staff in the building are required to leave their phones in their cars and the shop itself has been wiped from the GPS location services database.
