Who needs Starbucks?

The Seattle coffee chain may be the market leader, but Caribou is the go-to joint for the Obama administration.

June 25, 2010 at 12:14PM

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."

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The whole thing can be read here.

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