I was meeting someone at Starbucks, at a location convenient to us both, and
there are many Starbucks around where I live, and few alternatives within a
reasonable driving distance. I usually make my own coffee. Also American coffee
tastes are different than those of Europeans, though I used to get coffee from
Mr. Peet when I lived on the West Coast of the U.S. Peet freely helped
Starbucks set up in Seattle by giving them the benefit of his knowledge;
Starbucks basically commercialised his model on a much larger scale, and of
course something was lost. Peet's Coffee now is in other hands and the rich
variety he provided has given way to a more commercial offering. I have not
been in a Peet's coffee store in 40 years, so I don't know if they continued in
the manner he set up his original shops, but Peet's coffee in grocery stores
here does not have much variety offered. That the United States has in some
areas better coffee than in the past is largely due to him. Peet learned his
trade in his family's coffee business before WWII in Alkmaar, Netherlands,
which is about 55km from Leiden. I have some Peet's coffee at home, but I will
tolerate instant coffee when I am lazy, but I usually cannot stand instant
coffee black. Most of the restaurants around here have terrible coffee.
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Free Coffee
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
Probably works for people who want tograb some coffee in a hurry. Starbucks
was not intended to be areplacement for European cappuccino bars. But you may
recall inthe 1970s boomers didn't like coffee because it gave them thejitters
and the coffee industry even ran TV promos trying to getfolks hooked again. I
didn't drink coffee back then until Istarted working downtown Seattle about
1980 and would grabsomething to eat and drink on my way to my temp job. One
can findespresso made like they do in Europe in classic Italianrestaurants
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@...[FairfieldLife] wrote:
The only Starbucks in my town isat the central train station. Almost no one
goesthere because in the Netherlands almost everycafe can make a better cup of
coffee andliterally every cafe has better ambiance. Justgoes to show ya that
"globalization" only worksif the globe wants what you're sellin'...
From:"anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]"<[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Sent:Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:54 AM
Subject:[FairfieldLife] Free Coffee
Ihappened to be at a Starbucks today,and the registers had just stoppedworking
even though they were stillturned on. I got a free coffee. Thebarista was on
the phone with theirtechnical help and said the networksystem had somehow gone
down. Saved mea small bit of cash. They put a signon the store that they could
serve nomore.
Thenews later this evening: Starbucks:Computer Outage Disrupts Sales inUS,
Canada
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