☕ The art of a good bathroom (Part 2 of 4) ☕

Hello,

Following on from the previous email…

… time to talk about bathrooms.

I know what you're thinking.

What do bathrooms have to do with coffee shops?

Everything and nothing.

When I started writing reviews on VancouverCoffeeSnob.com I wanted to have an x-factor.

And that thing ended up being a paper bag on my head…

… but I'll tell you about that in another email.

Anyway, the original x-factor.

I needed:

• Something that lets people visualize how great a café may be.
• Something that strikes fear into the hearts of the most brave.
• Something that we could all agree on.

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That thing?

"Dirty. Bathrooms. Are. The. Worst."

Think about it.

You plonk your sneaky cheeks down onto a seat you've never seen before. You look into the corner and what do you see?

A gross clump of dirt and hair.

If a coffee shop can't keep their loo's clean then how the hell are we to trust the rest of the place?

For those of you not familiar with the term "loo", it's what us Brits call the bathrooms.

So, in every one of my reviews, I'll comment on them.

Sometimes it's pretty, sometimes it's ugly.

100% of the time it's an accurate reflection of the rest of the business.

This is step 1 of making sure you never drink another bad coffee.

Start with hygiene and you avoid 90% of the bad shops out there.

I suffer so you don't have to.

You're welcome!

But don't take my word for it.

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Or this one...

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Let's touch base again tomorrow. Same time, same place.

I'll tell you what step 2 and 3 is.

I'll also tell you all about that bag on my head…

… aka the most ridiculous thing I've ever done in my entire life.

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Tom aka Vancouver Coffee Snob

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P.S.

This whole email thing is rather impersonal at times, eh?

If we were chatting in real life I'd have asked your name by now.

Knowing me, I'd have immediately forgotten it.

Then, when I heard someone else say your name again I'd have massively overused it in every sentence of our conversation.

You'll see that the awkwardness is strong in me, as you read the stuff my site.

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Anyway...

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I really hate it when the first email you get from someone mentions your name as if you're old pals.

But now we're two emails in I'm going to start using it the next one. I hope that's ok?

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And I promise I won't forget it.

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