Dear Fungus: I have a similar experience to share.
Today I asked the coffee pouring man (whom that phrase seemed to have upset a bit - he asked to be called a barrister) about the storage conditions for the prepared product.
I received a very useless, unacceptable answer regarding the shelf life, quoted here verbatim.
"Uh. I'd recommend drinking it before it gets too cold."
When inquired about using a refrigerator or a freezer and the preferred temperature thereof, I was told that the man is very busy and that there was a long queue behind me (which there indeed was).
Perhaps delaying the coffee buyer audience for that long is indeed unacceptable since I was rather rudely shoved outside of the coffee establishment...
Confused,
- Zakh Let