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BET Gives Out Free Coffee at Sip and Savor as Thank You to Viewers

By Sam Cholke | January 19, 2016 3:37pm
 BET sent talent scouts and gave out free coffee at Sip and Savor Tuesday as a thank you to viewers.
BET sent talent scouts and gave out free coffee at Sip and Savor Tuesday as a thank you to viewers.
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GRAND BOULEVARD — Customers at Sip and Savor on Tuesday were waylaid by photographers and handed their coffee free thanks to BET.

BET was at Sip and Savor, 528 E. 43rd St., all day on Tuesday handing out free coffee and staffed the coffee shop with talent scouts and videographers while a DJ played as part of a thank-you event for the channel’s viewers.

“It’s just a thank you to all the people who watch BET,” said Stephanie Lovingooel, the event coordinator for BET.

Trez Pugh, the owner of Sip and Savor, said he was shocked when he got the call that BET had picked his coffee shop to be one of nine businesses, and the only Chicago business, picked for the event.

“When they contacted me, I thought it was BS,” Pugh said. “They called me and told me everyone had been raving about it.”

Pugh said the coffee shop had been packed all day as he darted between regulars who frequently come to talk business and new customers lured in by BET.

Lovingooel said BET was photographing and shooting video at the event, but it was still unclear whether any of the footage would end up on the channel’s shows or website.

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