WOODLAWN — A South Side alderperson said she reported a coffee shop in her ward to city agencies over another set of allegations that the café mistreated unhoused people and residents in its majority-Black Woodlawn community.

Brian Metcalf, an Auburn Gresham resident who works at a school near Robust Coffee House, said he was making his regular stop for coffee there in late August when another customer tried to buy food for a man who was outside opening the door for patrons.

Metcalf said a staffer at Robust, 6300 S. Woodlawn Ave., told the man to leave, and when the patron who was buying his food tried to defend him, the employee told the man he “wouldn’t have to ask nobody for nothing if [he] had a job” and berated the man until he left in embarrassment.

“The man never asked nobody to

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