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As a newly minted old person, I now find myself enjoying several of the tried and true old person pastimes: going to bed early, not drinking too much, taking it as a compliment every time I get ID\u2019ed. And now, one coffee company is allowing the younger generation to experience the thrill of old person flattery. Costa Coffee<\/a>, the world\u2019s second-largest cafe chain, has enacted a policy that allows employees to ID teenagers, and deny them sales if they don\u2019t meet a minimum age requirement.<\/p>\n According to Grub Street<\/a>, the company\u2019s new policy allows \u201cstores to refuse drinks to anyone under the age of 16.\u201d A Costa spokesperson tells the Manchester Evening News<\/a> that they do \u201cnot encourage the sale of caffeine to children,\u201d which apparently makes the next logical step to allow baristas to \u201cinterrogate customers they suspect are too young.\u201d<\/p>\n Grub Street notes that while the policy has been in place since the end of summer and stores are given discretion on when to implement it, the new rule has drawn more attention lately after a 12-year-old was denied a coffee.<\/p>\n Some of you might think this sounds like a great idea\u2014the hepped-up early teens of this world have enough to be excited about, what with their apps and their Post Malone fandom. But in my opinion, this is a dumb rule. Should you maybe keep a pre-teen from ordering their 10th orange mocha Frappuccino? In an ideal world where everyone looks out for one another, probably. But that ain\u2019t this world. You\u2019re not that kid\u2019s parent. Let \u2018em enjoy their caffeinated sugar rush. Why is a 12-year-old alone in a coffee shop anyway? Shouldn\u2019t they have a guardian? What are they even looking at on that phone they stare at all day long<\/em>? And if they don\u2019t and they are out there in the real world taking care of themselves, then they damn well deserve a coffee or how many ever they decide to order and are able to pay for. I don\u2019t need some visor-wearing barista playing caramel police.<\/p>\n So smooth move, Costa, you just created an open invitation for everyone under the age of 16 to come camp in your stores, not buy a damn thing, and waste your wifi downloading the latest posthumous release by Lil Peep or somesuch similar artist. This all could have been avoided by simply giving a child caffeine. It\u2019s your loss.<\/p>\n Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Top image via Superbad<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Should Coffee Sales Have A Minimum Age Requirement?<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a newly minted old person, I now find myself enjoying several of the tried and true old person pastimes: going to bed early, not drinking too much, taking it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}