---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
Probably works for people who want to grab some coffee in a hurry. Starbucks was not intended to be a replacement for European cappuccino bars. But you may recall in the 1970s boomers didn't like coffee because it gave them the jitters and the coffee industry even ran TV promos trying to get folks hooked again. I didn't drink coffee back then until I started working downtown Seattle about 1980 and would grab something to eat and drink on my way to my temp job. One can find espresso made like they do in Europe in classic Italian restaurants around here. I'm not talking Olive Garden either. ;-) I had a Starbucks once, and that was only because I got a free voucher in some newspaper. I asked for a cappucino and took it back because I thought they'd forgot to put the coffee in. They made me another with an extra shot and it still tasted like someone had dipped a single grain of nescafe in some warm milk. How they make a global brand out of it I don't know, it must be consistency. The local independent cafes round here make either a consistently bland brew or a fantastic cup one day or something that tastes like lukewarm creosote the next. Or occasionally they are always good but ruinously expensive. Costa are the only place that I can rely on outside London but I stopped going there when they shrank the size of the cakes recently. Did they think we wouldn't notice? On 04/24/2015 10:55 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The only Starbucks in my town is at the central train station. Almost no one goes there because in the Netherlands almost every cafe can make a better cup of coffee and literally every cafe has better ambiance. Just goes to show ya that "globalization" only works if the globe wants what you're sellin'... From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:anartaxius@...[FairfieldLife] <[email protected]> mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] mailto:[email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:54 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Free Coffee I happened to be at a Starbucks today, and the registers had just stopped working even though they were still turned on. I got a free coffee. The barista was on the phone with their technical help and said the network system had somehow gone down. Saved me a small bit of cash. They put a sign on the store that they could serve no more. The news later this evening: Starbucks: Computer Outage Disrupts Sales in US, Canada http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933 Starbucks: Computer Outage Disrupts Sales in US, Canada A computer outage affecting sales registers disrupted sales Friday at 8,000 company-operated Starbucks stores in the United States and Canada. Stores ... Starbucks: Computer Outage Disrupts Sales in US, Canada http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933 Starbucks: Computer Outage Disrupts Sales in US, Canada A computer outage affecting sales registers disrupted sales Friday at 8,000 company-operated Starbucks stores in the United States and Canada. Stores ... View on abcnews.go.com Preview by Yahoo
