Green Tea Terrace
Sunday, June 19, 2005 21:51
I bring you this picture with great personal risk. After getting a haircut in Westwood, I popped into my favorite place for some iced green tea, Green Tea Terrace. I tried Green Tea Terrace for the first time a few years ago. I wasn’t sure what to order at the time, so the person behind the counter recommended getting a mix of the sweet green tea and the Sen-Cha tea. That way I would get the good green tea flavor, with some, but not overwhelming sweetness. I liked the mixture and often go back to have the refreshing mixture.
This time, I walked into the empty store and was greeted by two of the three workers behind the counter. I ordered my drink and paid without incident. I walked over to the couch by the window while the three workers gathered behind the counter and started giggling about pictures that the girl had on her camera. Figuring that I would write up a little detail of the Terrace, I pulled out my camera to snap a picture of my drink before I sucked it down.
Snap. Snap. Snap. Suddenly, the girl came running over to the end of the counter:
Her: Are you taking pictures in our store?!?!
Me: I’m sorry?
Her: I said are you taking PICTURES in OUR STORE?!?!
Me: Uh. Yeah.
Her: We have a REGULATION against that!
Me: A regulation?
Her: Yes, we have a REGULATION against taking pictures in OUR STORE!
Me: Call the cops…..
And I picked up my tea to go outside and drink it. Even though my experience was slightly tainted, I still enjoyed the Sen-Cha Sweet Tea mix and on the warm sunny day, it hit the spot. Will I go back? Probably, but hyperactive workers who aggressively enforce their ‘regulations’ on their customers weird me out a bit. So, I am posting this picture of the drink taken from INSIDE the store. I await the cease and desist letter.
Green Tea Terrace
1037 Westwood Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: (310) 443-9910
www.greenteaterrace.com
By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.
SoCalorie says:
June 19th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
I am enjoying the new flickr pool: You Can’t Take Pictures Here.
In solidarity, I encourage all phoblographers to take pictures of what they buy in the following stores (to name a few): Joan’s on Third, Boule, Jin and now Green Tea Terrace.
Where else should we bring our cameras and photograph our purchases?
jorge says:
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:01 am
as a GTT employee I apolagize for your experience and hope you will continue to come into the store and enjoy our teas. as for our regulation “we are not allowed to let people take the pictures OF the store” but i’m sure the situation could have been handeled better.
Ira says:
January 4th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
This place is now out of business. Maybe they should have let people take pictures of the store after all.