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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (7News) — A Maryland Starbucks employee has been suspended after the word "monkey" was reportedly printed as the name on a customer's drink label, 7News learned on Thursday.
The incident happened on Nov. 19 at a Starbucks store in Annapolis Mall.
"A barista picks up a cup, looks at it and she's hesitant, and she says, 'venti caramel Frap,' and she puts it down and backs away from the table," Monique Pugh told 7News' Carl Willis. "Then, I see 'Monkey' on the cup."
Pugh said she was the only black woman in the shop and that the time printed on the label lined up with her order.
In her 20 years of patronizing Starbucks, Monique Pugh said she never expected to go through what she experienced Nov. 19 at a store in Annapolis Mall. (7News)
Pugh said the store owner offered her a free drink and sandwich, but she declined after the owner claimed "we just have too many niggers in our stores stealing stuff these days".
She said she never received an apology from whoever entered "Monkey" where her name should have been.