Suspended coffees are a recent phenomenon, atleast etymologically. Large hearted coffee house and restaurant patrons have been leaving behind ‘suspended’ meals and drinks for eons. The only difference being that now a spontaneous act of charity has been hijacked by the most pernicious of all tax avoiders in the UK.
Before we term this post as super-hipster balderdash, let’s consider a few sobering truths. Starbucks played so truant with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that even Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to dish out a little cautionary word to the company. Cameron said that tax-avoiders “need to wake up and smell the coffee“. How poetic.
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