Cam Ashmall said Starbucks baristas are inappropriately misspelling his name. The 30-year-old reckons that workers keep making the 'a' in his name look like a 'u' on purpose

A Starbucks customer has complained that the coffee chain's staff keep coming up with a very offensive misspelling of his name on his coffee cups.

Scottish customer Cam Ashmall reckons that workers keep making the 'a' in his name look like a 'u' on purpose.

Mr Ashmall, whose Twitter handle is @CamashRed, tweeted at the company on Wednesday: 'Starbucks, can you please train your employees to just capitalise their 'As'?

'I'm tired of having to carry a c** latte around Edinburgh.'

The 30-year-old says the 'mistake' with his name has happened twice and his photos of the blunders have been liked more than 13,000 times and retweeted more than 5,000 times on Twitter.

The response to his messages prompted him to lament: 'This is it. This is my legacy. All my other achievements will lie forgotten.'

Mr Ashmall, a call centre administrator, sent one final tweet on Wednesday pleading with Starbucks to send him on a safari to make up for his suffering.

He wrote: 'Ok, last tweet: @Starbucks, if you wanna offer me anything for this unexpected advertisement, just send me to South Africa so I can hang out with lions for a couple of weeks. That's all I ask. My DMs are open.'

The 30-year-old says the 'mistake' with his name has happened twice and his photos of the blunders have been liked more than 13,000 times and retweeted more than 5,000 times on Twitter

Mr Ashmall, whose Twitter handle is @CamashRed, tweeted at the company on Wednesday: 'Starbucks, can you please train your employees to just capitalise their 'As'?

Social media users responded with a string of smutty jokes. But among the printable responses was that of user Zainyness', who commented: 'Pretty sure they're doing that on purpose.'

And @JerseyLynda advised: 'You need to change your name to Tim or Steve or George.'

It seems that Starbucks got Mr Ashmall's message loud and clear because on Monday, his name was correctly spelled on his coffee cup.

Clearly impressed, he wrote: 'Better. That's a big ol' A right there. Can't miss it. The curse has been lifted.'

But Starbucks baristas misspelling customers' names might not be on accident, according to a conspiracy video that made the rounds on the internet last December.

The self-styled 'creative weirdos' at Super Deluxe claim that all those mangled vowels and crazy consonants are part of a plot for free Starbucks advertisements - with customers voluntarily sharing photos of the 'mistake' on their social media.

Suspicious about the number of wrong names they've spotted, the Super Deluxe team sent one of their members- 'Molly' - out to five different Starbucks branches.

But Starbucks baristas misspelling customers' names might not be on accident, according to a conspiracy video that made the rounds on the internet last December. Pictured: Mr Ashmall's incorrectly spelled coffee cup

It seems that Starbucks got Mr Ashmall's message loud and clear because on Monday, his name was correctly spelled on his coffee cup

Three of the locations managed to misspell her name in increasingly spectacular fashion: Molli, Mali and - incredibly - Mommy.

That was too much for the team, who then formulated a theory about why the servers are so terrible at basic spelling.

The theory goes that millions of the corporation's customers around the world 'post pictures of their butchered names on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, wherever.'

And what do all those pictures have in common, the video asks the viewer.

'Two things: A misspelled name, and that familiar green siren, staring at you with her all-knowing gaze,' the narrator says.

'That's right, sheeple - you've been giving Starbucks free publicity for years!'