One Argument Against Offering Coffee: Lawsuits

As if spillage wasn\’t enough . . .

An Owings Mills (MD) coffee company is suing the Howard County Library and the county government for picking the Daily Grind to manage its two library cafes, alleging that the Grind falsified information in its bid proposal and library officials didn\’t properly check into the business.

Straight From Seattle Espresso Inc., which operates 10 sites in Washington and Baltimore, wants the library system to start the bidding over again.

\”You have to play by the rules, and you have to disclose all that\’s asked for,\” said Matthew McCauley, who owns the company with his wife, Ashley . . .

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