I just don't get it!

Make mine a venti, with soy milk and extra shot of chai! Oh yea, one of those dark cherry yogurt parfaits too!

I think they must put something addicting in their drinks/food!!!!!

The thing is though, I've found the staff at most Starbucks extremely friendly and helpful when I wanted to stray from my normal order - they did not try to make it intimdating just because I did not know how to order. I think part of the draw is their customer service - consistantly better than a lot of other places!

I tried Starbucks a few times, and don't care much for their coffee. There is one on the way to my job, and I tried a few times to pick stuff up for my guys on the way in. They open at 5:30 AM, which would be just enough time for me to pick-up and still get to work @ 6. But their coffee isn't ready! The door is open, but they are just getting started on the coffee. When I worked in a restaurant years back, everything had to be ready to go when the doors opened- not this place. I now go to Einstein's, and everything is ready the minute the door opens. I'm on the road in less then 5 minutes, and I like their coffee better!

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Starbucks isn't a coffee shop, it's a milk shop . If they really wanted to sell straight coffee, they wouldn't burn it so bad.

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I don't understand, either. I've never been in a Starbuck's and I don't drink coffee, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.

They have a full blown starbucks at my company's world headquarters. As some have pointed out it is a good meeting place. I generally get a tea if I am getting anything (I can get a free refill of hot water as well).

I also get free coffee grounds from them for composting. I bring in a 6 gallon bucket in the morning and pick it up in the afternoon. I got over 100 lbs of coffee grounds this year without too much effort. Not trying to do it in the real cold weather but I'll start up again in a bit.

Mike

I'd truly rather meet friends and/or hang out in a DIFFERENT coffee shop than the one that looks like all the others every 3 miles...

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The best take out coffee I've found is at White Castle---their 'sliders' might be nasty but they make great coffee. At a reasonable price.

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I loved working there between the ages of 18 and 21. Free pound of coffee every week, GREAT benefits, good pay, good tips, and everyone I worked with was awesome. I enjoyed my regular customers and making up stories about scandalous budding coffee shop romances.

There's a line in a Tom Waits song I always say when I'm going to the coffee shop:

"Go ahead and call the cops/
you don't meet nice girls in coffee shops."

I go there more for the internet than anything else these days. It's a locally owned thing though, not a Starbucks. Actually it's a really cool community gathering place, and I much prefer it to my days of getting my internet and gossip fix at the bar, over a beer.

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My nephew has been a barrista (barristo?!?) there for years. He and his family came out and spent Christmas with us the last year we lived in Alberta, and he brought me a pound of their "Christmas blend" beans. I really enjoyed it, but I brewed it my way, not the Starbucks way. They do burn it. I like my coffee strong, but coffee from there always gives me a stomache ache.

I will say though, that when he found out we owned an espresso/cappaccino maker, he shooed us all out of the kitchen and made the most AMAZING cappaccino that my machine has ever produced! The people who work there do seem to know their coffee, and while I have a knee-jerk negative reaction to paying $4 for a cup, I will admit to a weakness for the occasional mochaccino,

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Oh, I love a starbucks. The one near my house is really good. For me a venti peppermint mocha, non-fat no whip. Or, a venti mocha non-fat no whip.

Thanks...I'll be waiting for a drop off!

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I'm not a coffee drinker, but I don't understand it either ... I think the camaraderie found there must be the draw.

Thankfully I make my own chai tea latte, and it'll knock your socks off ... now, for that camaraderie ...

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I don't get the coffee thing either. I have had two cups of the stuff my entire life. Once was when I was a little kid. It was free at church and I figured with enough creamer and sugar it couldn't be that bad. Well for me it was bad. Second time I drank coffee was a few years ago at an old work place. One of the employees bought everyone coffee. I took it because it was free and I didn't want to look like a jerk. Guess I'll be doomed to a life of never enjoying coffee. Starbucks I thought was an overpriced rip off, but some folks think it's great and they seem to treat their employees good so I suppose one could consider buying coffee there an act of charity

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Starbucks was the Only place in our travels last winter ( Az. / Nm. ) that knew what a Ice Coffee was and how to make one .
We stopped often , coffee , a cheese danish , and to sign on line to check our e-mail and our next destination . ( $ 5.00 on Starbucks card gives You 2 free hours every 24 hrs.
But We Really Really MISSED Dunkin Donuts
Bob

OMGoodness, I love Dunkin Donuts ... plain ... glazed.

*eyes roll back in head*

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Let me guess----roasted and ground coffee, filtered water and maybe a touch of salt?

The last time I bought a cappuccino was at the Joe Muggs coffee house at the Books a Million store about 3 years ago and after paying $5.25 for the same drink that two weeks earlier was only $3.25 and having the tip jar brought to my attention by the barista as she answered my question of the price jack by saying "that the price increase brought the price charged here more in line with the other coffee outlets" even though we have no starbucks here.

After that I vowed to myself to never purchase a coffee house cappuccino again and I haven't. Now when I want a cappuccino or espresso, I make my own at home with my 14 year old Salton espresso maker.

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I agree. When my sister was at the hospital we noticed that they had a small Starbucks off of the admissions lobby area. My mom, sister and I, having never seen a Starbucks, wanted to try one. So I went downstairs and ordered us all something (I don't remember exactly what) and we couldn't wait to taste it. We all three at the same time made the most awful faces after our first sip. It tasted horrible. We tried another few sips but couldn't finish them.

I could give them a break because it was right before they closed for the afternoon and she used the last of the coffee out of the thermoses to make our drinks so that could be it. I would be willing to give them another chance if I ever get to go into a real Starbucks shop.

I don't drink coffee so they don't get my money.

but I have other addictions..HAHAHA

Tony likes those fancy coffees with mocha, frothy, and whatever....I don't even know what he orders. Luckily he gets those expensive coffees on a whim and doesn't live on them. I would have to add them into the monthly budget if he did that.


What gets me is cheesburgers......those "specialty cheeseburger" places. Mine at home on the BBQ made the way I love are so inexpensive.....we went to a Red Robin cause Tony just had to try it. Lunch was $12 cheeseburgers....each.....yup....I can't swing that for a burger haha and it wasn't that great! by the time I got out of there with the other things Tony ordered lunch was $45 (for burgers!!)
UGH

I've got in-laws who live in Seattle and are into all this coffee thing. One year they came for a visit and brought their high dollar coffee (whole beans and grinder of course) and their fancy coffee maker. You know the one that looks like something you'd see on the international space station.

One morning they fired that sucker up and after much excitement it produced coffee. I watched them all ohhh and ahhh about how good it was I asked for a taste. You know what. . .it tasted just like coffee.

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