Gorilla Coffee Is Secretly Trying To Rip You Off

If you aren't already boycotting Gorilla Coffee for: 

+ Treating their employees like shit

+ Suing the NYT

+ Suing their former employees who quit

+ Being starfuckers

Then how bout this?

From a FIPS reader:

"I thought you might be interested in knowing that Gorilla Coffee is now selling 12oz bags of coffee beans for the same price ($11) for which they had been selling similar-looking 16oz bags.  And they totally tricked me into buying a bag.  As a customer who stayed loyal to them following all of that ugly publicity recently, this is the last straw.  To be sure, Gorilla has a right to raise its prices, but to do it sneakily and unannounced leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth.  I thought you might like to warn other Park Slope consumers of this attempted gouging."

Thanks to this thoughtful reader, consider yourselves warned.

Real smooth, Gorillz...REAL SMOOTH.

Taylor Swift-n-Jake Gyllenhaal Shop At Union Market

Ok, so like by now we ALL know that Jake-n-TayTay are not boycotting Gorilla Coffee like the rest of us, but also did you know that they shop at Union Market?

FIPS reader David pointed out that this week's US Weekly cover is practically an homage to Park Slope: not only is Taylor carrying her Gorilla Coffee cup, but Jakey Jakey Boom Boom is manhandling a Union Market bag!

I actually went out and bought this mag yesterday after all the bullshit about all the amazing pictures cause I expected to see Jake-n-Tay at Prospect Park, Jake-n-Tay doing a Coop shift, Jake-n-Tay picking up a prescription at Neergard. And NOTHING. I was so friggin pissed off when I opened up the mag and realized it was a bullshit sandwich with extra cheese, I completely missed the cover.

Anyway.

I don't think Park Slope is famous enough, so I'm counting on these two btchz to really take us to the next level.

Ex Gorilla Coffee Workers Stop Being Polite And Start Getting Real; Hire Attorney Martin Garbus

Whoa. Check and Mate!

Remember all those former pissed-off Gorilla workers who staged that big Norma Rae type walkout this Summer? Right, well, if you'll recall, the fine folks at Gorilla decided to SUE their asses (along with the NY fucking TIMES!) over that whole kerfuffle.

The laswuit, is obvs, beyond retarded, and superstar trial attorney Martin Garbus agrees, judging by the fact that he's taken on their case. Garbus has represented a number of notable people throughout his career including Cesar Chavez, Don Imus, Lenny Bruce and Nelson Mandela, so he ain't really sweatin it. He's working with Brandworkers.org, and between them both, they're gonna fight the power and try to take Gorilla all the way down to Chinatown:

"Retaliatory, anti-speech lawsuits like the one from Gorilla Coffee have the potential to both harm innocent people who choose to speak out and chill the speech of others who would like to make their voices heard," said Martin Garbus.  "This lawsuit is without merit and will be defended vigorously until victory."

I've been on team ex-Gorilla employees from the get-go, but the fact that Brandworkers.org sent out a press release today crediting US with breaking the original story of the lawsuit (even if they don't link to us) locks me in for fucking life. Protests in the street!? Buring gorillas in effigy? You name it and we are THERE FOR YOU!

COFFEE WARS: Gorilla Coffee Is Suing The NYT AND Former Employees (!?)

If FIPS actually had a newsroom, shit would be POPPIN right about now, cause this anon tip is hotter than that sex scene in 9 1/2 weeks when Kim Bassinger and Mickey Rourke get it on in that abandoned alley in the rain: Gorilla Coffee has filed suit against the NYT, a NYT reporter and 8 former employees for participating "in the preparation and publication of (a) false, defamatory, malicious and libelous article (here it is)" that included a juicy staff email that claimed the workers were subjected to a "perpetually malicious, hostile, and demeaning work environment that was not only unhealthy, but also...unworkable."

The complaint goes on to say "that as a result of the false and injurious e-mail which was printed, published and circulated by NYT, the content of which was furnished by the individual defendants, with express and implied malice and with design and intent to injure Gorilla in its good name and reputation, Gorilla seeks punitive damages against all defendants, jointly and severally, for their egregious, wanton, reckless and negligent conduct, in a sum to be determined upon the trial of this action."

(and yes, we saw the ACTUAL official complaint with our own damn eyes).

Whoa.

Whoa.

Whoa.

Gorilla Coffee is SUING THE NEW YORK FUCKING TIMES??!! Who sues the NYT?? (ANNND their former employees!?). Gotta say, I have no goddamned clue what really did or did not down there this summer, but that's a pretty BALLER (slash crazy?) move right there, Gorillz.

You can download a pdf of the complaint here if you actually want to read it.

What do you guys think??

p.s. If you're new to the Coffee Wars saga, you can catch up here. 

[COFFEE WARS] NO, NOT GORILLA...Café REGULAR

image via: Adventures in Renovating a Brooklyn LimestoneNow that all is back to normal at Gorilla Coffee, it's time to shift our focus back to the family feud that erupted way back when at Café Regular. Just to refresh your mems: there was some sort of eruption that resulted in brothers Richard and Martin (who Grub Street refers to as a "legendarily sarcastic wizard of the espresso machine) parting ways with their sister Anne.

Welllllll.

It now seems is if Martin is opening up his OWN damn coffee spot in the former Pink Pussycat Boutique space on 5th Ave, btwn 4th and 5th streets...at least according to some poster on Brooklynian.

In other coffee related news: our Keurig arrived and was waiting for us when we got back from the airport last night!!! I haven't removed it from the box, but I'm so fucking excited I can barely contain myself.