Thursday, 20 January 2011

Starbucks News

I'm sure that, like me, you've often wandered into a Starbucks and thought to yourself, When oh when will they start serving their coffee in decent-sized cups instead of these meagre piddling measures? Well it seems they're on the case, and soon cups like this will be coming our way. High time too. I note also that Starbucks baristas have been told to go slower - yet another irresistible selling point. Bad coffee, over-diluted, over-milked and sold in pails - and now longer queues. Could Starbucks be any better?
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11 comments:

  1. Brit20 January 2011 at 11:14

    Yes, too small, not nearly enough time hanging around awkwardly after paying in an iadeqaute space with a lot of other customers, and much too cheap, that's Starbucks coffee.

    When oh when oh when oh when oh when oh when oh when oh when oh when oh when, will they finally bring out a coffee that gives me no change at all out of a twenty? I'm sick to the back teeth of only spending a paltry £9.98 on a bucket of milk and a limp croissant.

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  2. Brit20 January 2011 at 11:14

    Oh and by the way, as Homer Simpson said, I was being sarcastic. Hope that came across...

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  3. Uncle Dick Madeley20 January 2011 at 11:26

    Not my favourite coffee shop. Whenever I'm forced to eat there, I'm always reminds me of Jackie Mason's rant.

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  4. Nige20 January 2011 at 11:50

    Ah yes Stan - pure gold that Jackie Mason rant...

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  5. Richard T20 January 2011 at 13:10

    The cup for tips when being sold the 'fairly priced' coffee could be more prominently placed perhaps. Presumably they pay the staff so poorly that tips for doing their normal job with no added value are expected. Maybe it's the American way.

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  6. Gareth Williams20 January 2011 at 16:51

    Last time I went into Starbucks - many years ago - I found myself feeling suddenly embarrassed over the pronunciation of Grande (which I think is medium in Starbucks terms, and mixing bowl size in everyone else's). Unsure of taking a cod-Italian or cod-French approach I settled on a flat northern 'grand' (as in 'aye lass').

    I agree that it's terrible stuff. Caffe Nero's quite good though.

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  7. malty20 January 2011 at 17:17

    The Edinburgh faction of Starbucks sold a thing they euphemistically called a Panini.
    Here is the wiki..Panini are sandwich-like food items, Italian in origin, but now international.
    On that basis Starbucks should be done under the trade description act, if we still had one. Visually a cross between an overused chamois leather and tasting like a cross between a well used chamois leather and a new chamois leather. In mitigation however it could be said that the panini was no worse than the coffee.

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  8. Nige20 January 2011 at 17:59

    Ugh - I can quite believe it Malty - you cld also have sued on the grounds that they only gave you one when Panini is plural. On the other hand, grateful for small mercies and all that...
    I agree Gaw, reckon Caffe Nero's the best these days. They also have water, cold and free. Costa next best I'd say...

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  9. Pete20 January 2011 at 18:32

    Well, they could also try to shove a few more CDs down my throat.

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  10. KateNZ20 January 2011 at 20:23

    Puts me in mind of that episode, back in the vintage days of Friends, where Phoebe dates the psychologist who notes that the huge Central Perk coffee cups her friends drink from 'might as well have nipples on them' - another sign of the infantilisation of our culture I reckon!

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  11. Anonymous22 January 2011 at 09:14

    I have the opposite problem with the take out cups being a tea drinker. I ask for a small cup, and you get half a pint. I wish they had smaller cups.

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