Bikini Barista Owner Proves You Can't Spell Class Without A-S-S

Brewistas

Anyone else feel a draft?

Kendra Harrington is the 26-year-old co-owner of Peek-A-Brew Espresso in Bonney Lake. Harrington thinks that Peek-A-Brew is different than your typical T&A coffee shop because she doesn't let her baristas wear just anything. No, Harrington's girls follow a strict and tasteful dress code. Meaning no pasties and thongs, just lingerie. Because ...

"We want to empower women. We wanted to put it out there, that there are stands that are classy."

That picture above? That's from Peek-A-Brew's Web site Brewistas.com, where they're offering one week's worth of free live-streaming video. (The reason Harrington had a chance to get herself quoted in the newspaper in the first place.)

Empowerment is all well and good. But I swear to everything that is holy, if Harrington's attempt to turn her lace-and-corset-wearing employees into skimpily-clothed beacons of third-wave feminism catches on and becomes, say, as tired and played-out a justification as the stripper-just-working-the-pole-to-pay-her-way-through-school cliche, I will personally come down to Bonney Lake, order a coffee black/no sugar and tip less than 15 percent.

And not that I'm an expert or anything, but that girl on the far right? Whatever she's wearing may not technically be a thong by name. But it's certainly one in practice.