Of course there are Peet's shops around but not in this town. Closest
is about 6 miles south. Some of the local roasters are students of
Peet. Unfortunately some of the shops featuring those roasts are not
always good at running a shop or because their rent is too high their
prices are much higher. Greed of many old local families is destroying
businesses in many small towns and cities.
On 04/25/2015 04:16 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
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.
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*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 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'.../*
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*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
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933>
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>
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933>
Starbucks: Computer Outage Disrupts Sales in US, Canada
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933>
A computer outage affecting sales registers disrupted sales Friday
at 8,000 company-operated Starbucks stores in the United States
and Canada. Stores ...
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<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933>
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