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Please Stop Sticking Your Gum Under the Bar at LloydMartin

You're adults, people.

Allecia Vermillion
Author: Allecia Vermillion
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It’s like a little piece of Pike Place Market, right next to your bar stool. Photo via LloydMartin’s Facebook page.

This afternoon, LloydMartin owner Sam Crannell posted this photo of a veritable rainbow of chewed-up gum wads recently scraped off the underside of the bar at his Queen Anne restaurant (which, might I add, is a terrific place to eat dinner).

People sticking their ABC gum up in places isn’t exactly shocking behavior. Hell, we built an entire chewed-up landmark out of this concept. But LloydMartin’s problem is particularly shameful because, by law, anyone dining here is 21 or older. Every spittle-coated blob of wintergreen-extremeberry in the photo above was stuck beneath the bar by a grown-ass man or woman. 

On the plus side: It makes those people who ask to charge their cellphones at a restaurant seem downright courteous.

 

 




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Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion has spent a decade at Seattle Met, arriving as food and drink editor, and expanding her role over the years. She served as the magazine’s editor in chief until moving into a newly created executive editor role in 2021. She spearheads Seattle Met’s food and drink coverage and oversees home design content. Allecia’s writing has earned her multiple journalism awards and two James Beard Award nominations over the years. A native of Portland, Oregon, Allecia began her writing life as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs before making a grateful return to the Pacific Northwest. She has an English degree from Washington University (no, the one in St. Louis) and a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.