The Ballard Starbucks is an okay sort of place to go, however, the employees leave a lot to be desired.

Go in anytime and ask for grounds for your garden. Easier to have Tully's bag some up for you than those folks. They will take your name and phone number, promise the sun and the moon to have them ready for you next day. Go in next day and guess what. No grounds for your garden. Oh, I'm sorry they seem to draw flies and we don't like to bag them for that reason.

Good grief, Charlie Brown, every other Starbucks except for those in a Safeway store. They claim to be independent and don't have to bag their grounds for the garden for their customers. At least that's their story for the one in Greenwood.

Maybe if everyone were to go in and beg, plead etc. and then call the corporate office maybe, just maybe they might get off the dime and bag their grounds for the garden. Or just maybe they don't care about the environment and are telling us to stuff it in a not so nice way.

I even called and spoke to Elvis the manager (yes, Elvis like in the King), he says they just don't do it. I told him what would it take to get them to change policy, call, complain, write letters to the Ballard News-Tribune, call corporate etc. He suggested I call corporate and complain.

Give me a break what is going on. I told him short of the Starbucks in the Safeway stores, tag he's it the only one who doesn't stock the bags. He said I can call corporate and complain if I'd like.

Does anyone else have this problem with them? Then they promise to take your order and then don't fill it? Where is customer service, ground out on home plate I see.

Carol Huston

Ballard