When the entire staff of Gorilla Coffee on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope submitted a letter of resignation and walked out en masse two weeks ago, the world took notice. The staff vowed never to return and I’m assuming they never will.

Now the New York Times reports that the shop is reopening on Monday. Well, we never found out exactly why staffers were so angry although they did say that there was a problem with a co-owner and that the work environment was “hostile” and “malicious.”

So  a new staff begins on Monday. Hope they have better luck than the last one.

Will local coffee drinkers, who adore the coffee there, return to their caffeinated haunt after all they know now about the management? Will the owners of Gorilla come forward with an explanation, an apology, a vow to do better next time?

Maybe they’re banking on their customer’s coffee addiction or those who are clueless. There are people who don’t read blogs and newspapers. Then again, this story had legs…

Gorilla Coffee, the juggernaut Park Slope java-and-lifestyle dispensary that has been closed since April 9 after the entire staff quit to protest a “perpetually malicious, hostile, and demeaning work environment,” will reopen Monday. So said the smiling woman inside the half-rolled-up gate of the shop at Fifth Avenue and Park Place at 7 Friday evening.

Inside were buckets of paint and several workers scurrying around and making ready. The sign that’s been in the window since last week says that the staff will be all new (other blogs have noted this Gorilla-ish sounding want ad). It will be interesting to see how the neighborhood’s fiercely loyal fair-trade-sipping customers receive the reincarnated operation.