A college town coffee shop is coming clean with comic flair.
“I just found out today that you’re not supposed to put the entire concentrated cold brew into a cold brew drink,” confessed one barista., a cafe in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, has been posting a series of TikTok videos, titled “Barista Confessions,” in which its baristas confess their deepest, darkest, on-the-job secrets.
. They have a modulated voice and a black anonymizing bar over their eyes. “I thought it was a different regular, so I started insulting them and making fun of them jokingly, and towards the end of the phone call, I realized it wasn’t them. So when they came in, I had to act like it wasn’t me joking.”“What you are about to hear can not be held against any barista,” reads a disclaimer on all the videos. “They will deny any accusation.” While the tongue-in-cheek video series from the shop located near Northeastern State University has been well-received, one video in particular has attracted the most attention — probably because it’s a doozy of a confession.“I just found out today that you’re not supposed to put the entire concentrated cold brew into a cold brew drink,” the anonymous barista “I’ve been giving people 16 ounces of pure, concentrated cold brew, no water,” they add, ending with the joke, “I’ve been giving people heart attacks.”This type of coffee shop series isn’t new: In 2024, Hidden House Coffee in San Juan Capistrano, California, received hundreds of thousands of views for its own take on the trend. Allie Newton, Lift Coffee Bar’s head of marketing , says their most viral confession came after a few other confessions had already been filmed.“The girl who was in the cold brew video was making and we stopped her and were like, ‘What are you doing?’” Newton tells TODAY.com, adding that she was doing exactly what she confessed in the video., that’s not how you’re not supposed to make it.’ And she was like, ‘What? I didn’t know that,’” Newton says with a laugh. “She’s worked here for a few months now and she had no idea, so I said, ‘Okay, go back to the dish pit. We are gonna film this for your confessional.’” Newton says that a lot of the shop’s employees go to NSU and are relatively new to being baristas. But, regardless of how long they’ve been on the job, it’s good to give a little grace to those who prepare your brew. “That’s the funny part about being a barista,” she says. “The realness of this is so prevalent because so many people do stuff like this.” Five Guys CEO Says He Gave $1.5 Million Bonus to Employees Because ‘I Didn’t Want Anybody Shooting Me’Illinois Basketball
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