xmichaelx:
I never said "I could charge you for taking out your laptop". That is a pure lie. You are entitled to your own opinion about me even if it's based on somebody you know from the coffee bean. As far as I know Mr. Harper is a 37 years old student, that yelled profanities in my store, he's a freeloader and has used Mr. Joe Schoenmann, the writer of the article, not for journalism but to try to get even with me on a personal basis, but with no success at all, judging from all these comments and comments of customers in my stores.

FYI my store on Desert Inn is not struggling at all, it is actually very successful. What I wrote about existing in the present economy was referred to the present general situation.

Marco Prestia

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have you ever been to any mexican restaurant that advertises "free salsa bar"? I have. Try to go there night after night after night,eating their salsa, using their table and chair, drinking tap water only and buy nothing. You see my point? Any decent person should have the common sense to read in between the lines of that "free salsa bar".

My name is Marco Prestia and I'm the owner of the "It's A Grind Coffee House" in this article's picture, with Mr. Andy Harper standing outside. This person used to frequent my place of business, sitting down and ordering nothing (zero) while using his computer for many hours at a time, and completely missing the concept of free Wi-Fi, which of course is for our patronizing customers. This is the core of this article and discussion, and also the reason why Mr. Harper got upset and now is trying to make his little mess. It would be like for a restaurant having free salad buffet and somebody would go in and just have the salad, using the restroom and leave. For days and days.
A small business like mine cannot afford to be taken advantage of by people like this. Once in a while Mr. Andy Harper would purchase a small drip coffee ($1.59) but most always he would purchase nothing (zero), meanwhile taking up the space of patronizing customers. Finally when I confronted Mr. Andy Harper and explained to him the limitation of our space, he made big vocal scene stating that our sign says "free Wi-Fi", as well as using profanities towards myself and staff and in the presence of other customers, on camera and video taped. This activity made everybody uncomfortable so I was left with no other recourse than to ask Mr. Andy Harper to leave or I would call the police. After all that has been published in this article, Mr Harper failed to inform everybody that after the police were contacted he ran out of my store as fast as he could!
Currently it is hard enough in our economy for a small business to exist without an article like this one based on a personal perception from someone who could no longer take advantage of my business establishment. If he were, as he claimed to be, a paying customer, what kind of business person would ask him to leave?
Our Wi-Fi is available 24 hours 7 days a week for our patronizing customers, so please come and experience our quality of service and exceptional products.
This kind of article could have possibly in a minor way impacted my business, that's why I'm correcting it here, stating the facts, wishing that the Las Vegas Sun will give me the chance to respond on the paper with another article on the subject.