Its my understanding that they regularly use offsite (like across the street) conference rooms and offices for meetings with those with “sensitive” names.
“Caribou Coffee Sharia”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/10/caribou-coffee-sharia.html
“August 7, 2006
Caribou Coffee’s Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi - A Terrorists Profile and US businesses links exposed.
Summary: Islamic Cleric has connections to Caribou Coffee, Hamas, and the First Islamic bank of Bahrain, which is now known as Arcapita - Boycott Watch spells out the connection and terrorist links.
When Boycott Watch reported the First Islamic Bank of Bahrain’s purchase of Caribou Coffee in May of 2000, we reported that Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who has admitted links to terrorist groups, was the First Islamic Bank of Bahrain’s key person in the deal to purchase Caribou Coffee from its founders, and was listed in the original press release on the banks’ website, and we reported how his name was subsequently removed from the website announcement by the First Islamic Bank of Bahrain after Boycott Watch published our initial report (http://www.boycottwatch.org/caribou ) showing the direct links of Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi to terrorist groups.
Boycott Watch believed then, and we still believe now, that Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi’s name was removed for public relations reasons. Caribou wanted to downplay any connection to terrorist supporters and groups by its parent company during a time when terrorism was viewed as Israel’s problem only. Since that time, the US has endured the attacks on September 11th, 2001 and the world has unfortunately not seen the end of Islamist terrorism. The civilized world is now in a global war against terrorism of which Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is a player.
After his name was removed from the First Islamic Bank of Bahrain website, Boycott Watch was told by Caribou officials that Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi was “just a consultant” who put the deal together, which contradicted what was originally posted on the First Islamic Bank of Bahrain’s website. Boycott Watch believes what was originally published on the banks website, which stated that Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi was the principal of the deal, i.e. partner, thus he not only made money on the original deal, but continues to profit from Caribou Coffee sales...”
http://www.boycottwatch.org/caribou/caribou03.htm
“Case in point: The company passed on buying a call center firm that activated credit cards because Shari’ah prohibits charging interest or dealing with businesses that do.”
http://www.boycottwatch.org/caribou/caribou02.htm
“Wow.
Porn, pork and Pabst — you’re safe from them at Caribou Coffee. In an SEC filing last week for its initial stock offering, the Brooklyn Center-based coffeehouse chain noted that it operates its business according to the Islamic principles known as Shari’ah.
“A Shari’ah-compliant company is prohibited from engaging in derivative hedging transactions such as interest rate swaps or futures, forward options or other instruments designed to hedge against changes in interest rates or the price of commodities we purchase,” Caribou said in its filing. “Also, a Shari’ah-compliant company is prohibited from dealing in the areas of alcohol, gambling, pornography, pork and pork-related products.”
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/caribou_coffee_a_business_to_boycott/