Caribou Coffee, the Brooklyn Center-based specialty coffeehouse chain, landed a prime cameo role in Friday's New York Times.

In a story about President Obama's staffers sitting down with lobbyists outside the White House (where lobbyists have, officially, at least, been banished), the story reports that the preferred meeting venue is a Caribou "across the street from the White House that has become a favorite meeting spot to conduct Obama administration business."

The story continues:

The whole thing can be read here.