Restaurant Riddle

[Aunt Marg]

It was grounds for dismissal.

Are you riding my coattails again, Pinky? LOL!

 

[debodun]

You're getting warm, Aunt Marg. You're going to groan when I reveal the answer, if no one guesses.

 

[Kaila]

I think the coffee was too watered down, from the tears of that poor coffee maker, who hadn't been working there for very long.

 

[Aunt Marg]

You're getting warm, Aunt Marg. You're going to groan when I reveal the answer, if no one guesses.

Don't be hasty, I'm not done guessing yet.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Coffee grounded to a halt?

 

[Kaila]

After it broke down, They couldn't drive it any farther?

 

[Pinky]

They had to send out for Starbuck's.

 

[PopsnTuff]

Everything came to a grind?

 

[Kaila]

The restaurant went broke?

 

[Kaila]

They arrested the tea-lovers suspected for having broken it?

 

[Aunt Marg]

It was grounds for an investigation?

 

[debodun]

You're all around it. Think of what a coffee machine does.

 

[Kaila]

The missing parts were found on the grounds?

 

[Kaila]

The coffee spilled on the grounds?

 

[Aunt Marg]

It was found that the percolator was indeed a perpetrator?

 

[Kaila]

All the staff and customers went to sleep?

 

[Kaila]

The restaurant had to close, because no one could stay awake.

 

[debodun]

No direct hits yet.

 

[Kaila]

The customers realized the food they'd been eating for years, actually tasted horrid.

What, Deb???? These are all such good answers, I can't believe we haven't gotten it!

 

[Aunt Marg]

The restaurant switched to dry roasted?

 

[Kaila]

The customers roasted the owner?

(Yes, Marge, we are riding on your coattails, because we
need to build off each other's very brainy contributions like yours! )

 

[debodun]

They are good answers, but not the one I was looking for. Keep guessing.

 

[Aunt Marg]

They grounded it?

 

[Aunt Marg]

They canned it?

 

[Aunt Marg]

All of the customers cried, brew-hew-hew?