I have just been asked to leave Starbucks!!!

[Rannaldini]

I am furious!

I have just been asked to leave Starbucks as I was only drinking coffee and not breastfeeding a baby.
Apparently you can only drink coffee in their store if you breastfeed at the same time.

I tried to stand my ground and say that I could drink my coffee wherever I felt like but they said
"not in here, please only come back if you are breastfeeding"

Was I being unreasonable?

Did you also not have a toddler running around getting under everyone's feet?

you should have just got your baps out anyway

Mind you, YABU to use Starbucks. Orrible coffee

Eh?

Did you hav a child with you?

couldn't you have just breastfed someone elses baby? Stop whining.

Well said JamieLeeCurtis... YAK!

Should've smacked the kids so they screamed louder

YABU, you selfish fucker. Where are us slovenly breastfeeders supposed to go and quaff lattes if you non feeders are sitting there, slurping away without a care in the world. TIme it came to an end I say. Some people!

I don't understand? Did you have a baby with you? Were you FFing? (not that it should be of any concern to Starbucks, I just think it is a very strange reaction from them)

Do Starbucks now have special BFing cafes?

I've had similar experience - went in with 2.5yo DD3 sitting in an (aging) Cosatto umbrella buggy. I was asked to leave as my buggy was too small, dirty and cheap to be allowed in.

The shame! [bgrin]

@ Rannaldini

I hate this, you know, just because you look like you're not breastfeeding, it doesn't mean you're not, you know.

Some breastfeeding can appear invisible, you know.

poledra

ROAR

Nice one, CrackFox

Oh it's one of those threads

Oi, I like Starbucks. Can't you coffee snobs go and get yourselves thrown out of Costa or Coffee Republic for a change?

Roffle at just get your baps out

I've heard you can get round this by making a "charitable donation" of breastmilk to their breastmilk bank. They keep the expressing machines in the cupboard under the straws and napkins.

hth x

Selfish cow. I suppose you didn't bother to jump the queue and grab the only available table either.

But I'm a hairy handed trucker and I don't even have children

my baps are sizeable though

LOL this made my morning.

Neros....please or better still my own wonderful coffee merchants in the heart of the south lakes!

We should start a Mumsnet campaign.

All MNers to go into a Starbucks of their choice and get their baps out.

Synchronised bap-flashing, that's what's needed.

I also feel that mumsnet should act immediately to have something done about this
Come on mumsnet towers

Hasn't anyone tweeted David Cameron yet?