BO's Coffee Club, Bohol

I visited BO's (near Plaza Rizal) nearly every day for a month, typically spending at least 250 – 400p daily. I popped in for a quick coffee and to check my email. The coffee was 85p, the sales girl told me that I could not use the WIFI unless I spent 100p (the min charge at the time).

I explained that I would likely buy another coffee or a cake and that anyway I had been in every day for the last 4 weeks. It mattered not to her or the Management. That was it for me and the BO's Coffee Shop in Tagbilaran City Center.

At BO's ICM I purchased a Latte while waiting for my friend to join me. The coffee was paid for and as usual brought to my table. Ten minutes later my Filipina friend joined me. She ordered her coffee, to my surprise, the sales girl asked her to collect it from the counter.

This really made me angry. I asked my friend to leave and then took the matter up with the staff. I asked why they served my coffee and had done so every time I visited the shop, yet they asked her to get it from the counter herself. We were the only customers inside the shop at the time

I was informed "Actually its Our Policy Sir, if you are inside the shop, you collect it yourself". Bullsh*t, its more to do with the female sales girl feeling that my Filipina friend had no right to be served by her. Why in over a year of buying coffee there has that policy never been imposed on me. Perhaps because I am white, I get preferential treatment.

To impose your policies on regular and loyal customers in my opinion sucks. I told the staff how I felt and have never gone back. I like a good cup of coffee but do not like pretentious attitudes or individuals. BO's is just a Coffee Shop, its not the Ritz Hotel. To be fair one of the employees did apologize, but for me the damage was already done.

For the benefit of the Bohol BO's coffee staff, on a recent visit to SM Cebu, two of the BO's outlets I visited, brought my coffee to my table. They were fairly busy at the time. Enough Said.