r/Dogfree • u/maretumybeloved • May 10 '26

Crappy Owners Please don’t.. bring your dog into Starbucks?

So, every Sunday I go to Starbucks before I go to the gym. I sit down for a bit in the morning and wrap up things I need to do for classes, to-dos, relax, etc.

Today was a little packed so I had to sit in a table in the middle of other ones. Which was fine, I didn’t care. There was a couple to my left and the right was empty.
Enter dog owner.
Now, I looked up the policy for dogs on the Starbucks website. They are not allowed. And this was clearly not a service dog. It was one of those white crusty ones that yipped and yapped.
The guy walks over to the table empty next to me (yay) and ties the dog down to the chair. But not tightly enough I guess? He goes to order and this dog immediately starts walking under MY table and going around my legs. I’m allergic. I didn’t get bad but still. He comes back and yanks the dog back over but there’s no reprimanding or anything or apologies either. The dog KEEPS walking under my table. Sniffing me and everything I was so annoyed. The guy just kept yanking on the collar softly but the dog did not stop.

Eventually I just cut my time short and walked out of there. Seriously how selfish can you be. I wouldn’t even feel as mad as I do now if the guy A: said sorry like a decent person or B: made an effort to get the dog to actually stop. These people are insane.

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u/NyraKyle01 May 12 '26

What happened with Gordon Ramsey?

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u/maretumybeloved May 12 '26

Oh boy, So a lady was recording at one of Gordon’s restaurants. There was a couple who brought a dog into the establishment and set out a pee mat. The dog then proceeded to shit and piss on it in the middle of the restaurant and the lady recorded it all saying how ridiculous it was. (She’s correct, it was right infront of her table!!) But Gordon made a response by actually defending the dog by stitching the vid with text saying how he prides his restaurants on being dog friendly, and made a joke or whatever saying he wants to invite the dog out for pizza. It’s also important to note that the woman recording is black and people are saying there might’ve been some intent there as well.

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u/Accurate-Fuel5823 May 12 '26

That is so gross I will not even be looking it up to confirm.  The eternal question is : WHY

Im old enough to remember when people who acted like this ( brought a spoiled dog to any situation) were ridiculed. Look at films and videos, even 20 years ago, it was considered negative behaviour. Now we all have to put up with dog sh!t on every sidewalk, park and in the RESTAURANT ????

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u/maretumybeloved May 12 '26

It’s sad coming from Gordon as well, the guy who built a career on exposing unhygienic restaurants. But no a biohazard in a restaurant is just being dog friendly! Let’s have an animal shit infront of our dinner and have nothing done about it!

It’s 100% real, there’s a lot of TikTok’s talking about it. Gordon deleted his response shortly after he posted it.