PUYALLUP, Wash. -- A South Hill barista has been arrested and charged with indecent exposure after deputies say she was seen standing -- topless -- outside Bikini Bottom Espresso stand on 176th Street.

"I saw her out of the corner of my eye," said Robin Whitten of Olympia. "I hadn’t approached the stand yet, and you could see boob, and of course a bikini bottom, and I said, 'No way! This chick is not standing out there with no shirt on.'"

Whitten, who spoke to KIRO 7’s Kevin McCarty by telephone from her home in Olympia, said she was shocked by the sight of the topless barista and reported it to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.

Detective Ed Troyer said a deputy responded and found the barista wearing nothing but small pieces of black tape covering the nipple area of her breast. "You couldn’t even tell until you were really close," said Troyer.

Deputies cited, then released 19-year-old Megan Lenn on suspicion of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor. When she was contacted by KIRO 7 Thursday afternoon, Lenn was back at work at Bikini Bottom and refused to comment on the incident or her arrest.

Lenn’s sparse outfit was part of what some call "pasty Wednesday" at Bikini Bottom Espresso.

Manager Cheryl England said pasty Wednesday is being cancelled following Lenn’s arrest.

"We tried it once. We got into trouble for it. We’re not going to do it again," said England, speaking by telephone.

Bikini Bottom has two coffee shops in the Puyallup area.