Talk:The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

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Need someone to upload a picture of the logo... Otherwise I just cleaned it up a little. --Hersch

Fixed --Hersch 18:39, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kosher food

• Strangely enough, Coffee Bean will not even allow customers to bring non Kosher food into their stores.

Any way of verifying this info? -Will Beback 08:48, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I've never heard of them before reading this article, but I'm almost certain it's true. If a customer put non-kosher food onto any surface associated with kosher food, the food surface would become non-kosher and any food that came into contact with it would be kosher. So say a customer brought in a cheeseburger, put it down on some plate typically used for some food this place serves. In order to ever use that plate again (for kosher food), they would have to take the plate to a mikveh and have the whole process supervised by a Rabbi. Easier to not let people bring non-kosher food in than have to keep an eye out that they never set it down anywhere, or have to constantly be taking care of now non-kosher surfaces, plates, and untensils. 69.134.73.174 04:52, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Anecdotally, I work at a Coffee Bean and we do have that rule written down (exact wording is "no other food or beverages (i.e. non-kosher) can be brought into or eaten inside our stores by our customers"). Evil saltine (talk) 07:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Smoking?

"Unlike Starbucks, Coffee Bean has fared fairly well in its entry into the Israeli coffee chain market. This can be attributed to its kosher food selection and the fact that it allows its patrons to smoke."

This kind of comes out of nowhere. Plus, it creates the false impression that, as this is a LA based chain, customers are allowed to smoke inside...in LA. Which is sadly not true. --Randomglitter 02:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It's hardly sad. Mike Dillon 02:02, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

This information is incorrect, perhaps out-dated. The chain does not allow smoking inside, as it is in violation of the Israeli law. --Dor shemer 22:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)