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Friday, January 4, 2013

City / Chow / Celeb Patrick Dempsey Buys Tully's Coffee? Ohhh-kay....

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM

For some reason, this fascinates me. Actor Patrick Dempsey—best known for his role as Dr. McDreamy in Grey's Anatomy, and as an adorable nerd in the 1987 teen movie Can't Buy Me Love (SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!)—claims he has beat out Starbucks to buy the Seattle-based Tully's Coffee chain. WHAT.

The coffee chain was part of a bankruptcy auction, and Dempsey's company (Global Baristas, LLC) made the presumably winning bid of $9,150,000 to beat out Starbucks and others, including Baristas Coffee, which runs a chain of drive-throughs featuring employees in skimpy outfits. WHAT.

Here's Dempsey's enthusiastic response to his victory (which actually isn't final until the deal gets the okay from the bankruptcy judge next week), via the New York Post:

"I'm thrilled that we won and I'm even more excited about saving Tully's Coffee and its hundreds of jobs," he said. "Tully's is a great company with committed employees, and with its base in Seattle, one of the world's greatest cities, I'm confident we will be able to successfully build the brand and help grow the economy. "

RAHHHHHHH!!! (I'll take one grande soy Mocha McSteamy, half caff, with a squirt of whipped cream... FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.)

Tullys: A swarthy seduction in every cup.

Courtesy ABC
"Tully's: A swarthy seduction in every cup."

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# 3 & 22 -- Realism, FTW. If what they claim is true, they're paying $200,000 per store for a shitty brand that's been bleeding money since the minute it was founded. Sounds McStupid to me.

Posted by Punditwatch on January 4, 2013 at 9:42 PM

I hope he has some inkling of why Tully's failed so he knows what to change. I don't claim to know myself, but his comments suggest that he hasn't the slightest clue, either.

Posted by Free Lunch on January 4, 2013 at 8:01 PM

@20: You hate great hair. Obviously.

Posted by TVDinner

on January 4, 2013 at 4:32 PM

TV Dinner is probably right (I know that when I look in the mirror every morning I hope to look just a little bit more like Patrick Dempsey. Every morning I am disappointed and scrub my face with a SOS pad).

Though I merely said that there was "something" unattractive about him...maybe he has a great personality? Maybe he's not my type? Maybe because I never watched Grey's Anatomy?

Posted by ArtBasketSara on January 4, 2013 at 3:45 PM

You guys are rough. He might be best advised to forgo the next Slog Happy. Hard to measure up to the soaring comeliness of commenters here.

Posted by Michael of the Green on January 4, 2013 at 2:40 PM

I'm sure he's a damn sight better looking than the lot of you.

Posted by TVDinner

on January 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM

@14, I just seen the pics of him on the Seattle Times website (he isn't all made up and pretty looking) and he seriously looks like the creepy old guys you see lurking around in a bath house offering blow jobs to anyone.

How that is "attractive" is beyond me.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on January 4, 2013 at 2:22 PM

Dempsey is "swarthy"?

Posted by Michael of the Green on January 4, 2013 at 1:47 PM

I have to confess, I like my coffee unburnt, so I prefer Tully's to Starb*cks.

I will say that when the SCCA coffee shops changed to Starbucks, I thought there would be a zombie army of oncologists and nurses rising up to kill but beyond much grumblings the *buck-ers seem to be staying on.

Posted by Womyn2me $http://http:\\www.shelleyandlaura.com$ on January 4, 2013 at 1:44 PM

There's also something...hmmm, how to say..unattractive? about him. Why dreamy? I don't get it!!

Posted by ArtBasketSara on January 4, 2013 at 1:36 PM

@11, thank you. I've always thought there was something really unlikable about him.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on January 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM

Phew. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw him downtown on Tuesday.

Posted by tkc on January 4, 2013 at 12:37 PM

In every second of screen time I've ever seen this man oozes an image of complete and total unlikeability. Apparently there are many who disagree.

Posted by Dougsf on January 4, 2013 at 12:37 PM

Is he going to jack off into each and every latte?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on January 4, 2013 at 12:19 PM

@4 youre totally wrong. Tully's is way better than Starbucks or SBC.

Posted by JonnoN on January 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM

Big fan of Patrick (he's an extremely decent human being - having helped his mother through two bouts of ovarian cancer and then using his money to open and fund
http://www.dempseycenter.org/

I am NOT a fan of Tully's coffee, however and while Green Mountain Coffee is decent (by East coast standards) realistically not even that's enough to save Tully's.

Totally weird that he spent so much money on it. Seattle has SO MANY amazing coffee places.

Posted by xina on January 4, 2013 at 11:38 AM

Tullys is not great, but unlike Charbucks and 90%of the tiny drive-up coffee stands, Tullys stocks rice milk. Important for those folks intolerant of lactose and also allergic to soy.

Not a big population, but it sucks to be in it and Tullys can be counted on to come through.

Posted by Dr_Awesome on January 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM

He should use cups that show him clothed when they are upright. And then unclothed when turned upside down. Like the old stripper pens. I'd rush into Tully's in a heart beat.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on January 4, 2013 at 11:18 AM

Tully's ftw!

Posted by Will in Seattle

on January 4, 2013 at 11:14 AM

Geez Louise!!!!!

Tully's coffee sucks royally, always the worst coffee in Seattle, even worse than Peets and Starshucks.

A complete douchetard with absolutely no taste in coffee --- should be hunted down and slaughtered (that's a joke, fnarf pansy trust fund boy).

Seriously, what sort of cretin imbibes Tully's???

Wm.????

Posted by sgt_doom on January 4, 2013 at 11:11 AM

Holy shit, doesn't a rich dude like Dempsey have money guys to protect him from himself!?! Tully's is where investments go to die.

Posted by Westside forever on January 4, 2013 at 11:11 AM