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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why is she called bikini barista? She's not wearing a bikini.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There was a free speech fight in the courts about the right for women two wear swimsuits, many of them bikinis, while serving coffee in the Seattle area. Since then the popularized alliterative term 'bikini barista' has stuck to refer to all servers that sell hot drinks while in swimwear.