Man gets engagement assist from Starbucks

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A 32-year-old man says he was allowed to use a Starbucks coffee house in New York as the surprise location for his engagement proposal to his girlfriend.

Lingerie designer Lenny Tawil said he knew his girlfriend, Harari, was a Starbucks regular and decided to deliver an engagement ring to her through the facility's drive-through window, the New York Daily News said Thursday.

"She comes here every day, so this is nothing different," he said of Wednesday's unique proposal.

Sure enough, the 23-year-old Harari visited the drive-through-only coffee house and received a cup filled with a jewelry box instead of her usual iced macchiato.

That was when Tawil appeared on scene and made his proposal to a joyful and receptive Harari, the newspaper said.

For Starbucks store manager Liz Fagundo, the choice to allow the engagement request to occur was a no-brainer.

"I said yes right away," Fagundo told the Daily News. "You can meet at Starbucks; you can get engaged in Starbucks."