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Day: September 2, 2018

Cafe, Customer Service

Customer Needs Quarters For Shitty Tip, Not Parking Meter

Assorted coins on a grey table.
Guest Writer / September 2, 2018

  By Adam Heffelfinger   CLEVELAND, OH— Barista Seth Holstein was working through a typical brisk rush hour line early Tuesday morning when his day took an unexpected turn. Craig Johns, a 42-year veteran of Cleveland-based investment firm Stodges & Coller produced a crisp bill and placed it on the counter.   “He asked me if I could break it…

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