― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pennysong Hanle y, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kerry, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maria, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'd be curious to see if any European posters have contempt for this American cultural imperialism, considering the import of café life in Vienna, Paris, Italy, Turkey and loads of other places. Does anyone care or was that sort of café a thing of the past anyway?
And how long until Starbucks starts selling bubble tea?
― scott p., Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pennysong Hanle y, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
It brought a tear to my eye the day Gateway in Bexhill turned into a Somerfield (Three months ago. Beat that for backwardness).
― Graham, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Coffee Republic got its windows blown out in the recent bombing, and I don't think it's reopened yet.
― jel, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bill, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Echoing what others have said, there are way too many Starbucks in NYC, but there are also too few of the in Long Island.
On Long Island, there weren't really any mom & pop stores for Starbucks to displace. Back when I was a kid, the few non-chain LI coffee shops weren't even coffee shops per se, more like "luncheonettes" or "c orner stationeries," and they basically disappeared at least a decade before Starbucks arrived on the East Coast. You can be pretty sure they had lousy cofee and pretty damned sure that none of these places had comfy seating.
Few of the Starbucks I go to are grab'n'go places, and if I want a Raspberry Mocha Chip Frappucino, and the nearest Starbucks doesn't have decent seating, I go to one that does. The opportunity for conviviality and relaxation is more important to me than the coffee, I suspect that I'm hardly alone. The urban vilification of the homeless have pretty much insured that there are never enough public places to SIT DOWN.
― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pennysong Hanle y, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My hometown, though, had just Dunkin Donuts before it got its strip- mall Starbucks. Dunkin Donuts were practically an institution in New Jersey towns, one I'd be upset to see disappear (though Dunkins is just a chain itself, naturally).
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Assuming you're in Hastings and Rye, you got a Labour MP four years before I did, and even now I can barely remember how it felt to have a Tory MP. That's the only thing *I* care about.
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Hans Greer, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Graham, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maura, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
however, occasionally I have to entertain business partners in town and they always want to go to the starbucks which is convenient because it's so close. so i usually order a grande chai soy latte to be accomodating.
so today i am meeting with someone this morning and around 10am they say "let's go grab coffee" and we go down to starbucks. the cashier asks "what can i get you, guy?" so i order. "that'll be 2.35, guy." i drop the change in the tip jar. "thanks a lot, guy". i look him in the eyes and say very flatly "you are welcome.... guy".
i mean "guy"? what happened to corporate customer service? it was pretty weird. i expected the normal faceless "how may i help you"s but not this "guy", thing. what's next? hey bro, hey man, hey dude?
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 31 October 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 31 October 2003 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
several posters above obv. otm re: if you don't support independents, you can't complain when they fold.
McDonald's coffee used to be really good. Not anymore?
― Skottie, Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
Well, I've never been called "guy" at a Starbuck's yet here in Starbucks city.
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
― lesley yvonne everson, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Starbucks Customer Service (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSD, called the aristocrat (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ceezah, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
(ZING)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
They have other things to drink as plain, honest-to-god manly coffee besides their house blend and their espresso that are supposedly much better but I can't be bothered.
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost ZINGITTY ZING ZANG
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I've tried all their coffees, because they are (relatively) closest to my house when I want coffee on the weekend and not make it. I've also gone to indie coffee shops and they all suck for various reasons. Still have yet to find a great cup of coffee here. Maybe it's a big city thing, b/c in collegetowns you can always find a good cup of coffee.
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, I guess it was just some barista. Still, don't tell your baristas to say shit like that! "We're using fair use as an excuse" is not a very good way to set up your fair use defense.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
I walked by this yesterday. Kinda funny, but only a little bit. Predictably the line was down the block, about a hundred people.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, can't say I think it's that funny. It's gonna get so shut down, and the people who did it are going to be out a lot of money.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 February 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
The FAQ is hilarious, has to be a "Nathan For You" bit, as some have suspected.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 10 February 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
aaaand confirmed as such.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
In three days a Twitter feed for Dumb Starbucks has amassed over 8K followers. Even Universal got in on the mania on their Dumb & Dumber To Facebook page.
wow
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
oh, turns out this is something a friend of mine did -- haha
― sarahell, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
you're friends with nathan fielder?
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
no, but a friend of mine is apparently claiming credit?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
makes sense.
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
I just threw away http://books.google.com/books/about/Pour_your_heart_into_it.html?id=V_MjPzynsRcC in honor of this mishap
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Some great viral marketing from not-so-dumb Starbucks imo
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Nah, I doubt this means much to Starbucks
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
I can't watch Nathan for You bc it makes me too uncomfortable but this is hilarious.
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
hes a huge asshole fwiw
― Lamp, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
There seems something endemic to LA that things like this instantly attract huge lines. I can't imagine that kind of reaction in NYC for instance.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
http://splitsider.com/2014/02/nathan-fielder-reveals-himself-as-the-mastermind-behind-dumb-starbucks/#more-48423
Thankfully, in the press conference Fielder said he plans to open a Dumb Starbucks in Brooklyn in the coming weeks, so east coast lovers of parody coffee shops will get their chance to wait in line for four hours for a free cup of dumb coffee too.
― waterbabies (waterface), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
^but that'll provoke a different reaction, now that everyone knows what's going on.
will still be interesting to see what type of reaction he gets.
― ∞, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
No it won't.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
dumb cronuts
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
Cronuts craze was different though since the payoff to waiting in the cronut line was a cronut whereas the payoff to waiting in the Dumb Starbucks line is, what exactly? Something much more conceptual.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
i thought you got a cronut once you got to the front of the cronut line
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
oh wait nm i misread yr post
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/02/dumb-starbucks-and-the-art-of-the-hoax.html
― sarahell, Sunday, 16 February 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
marc horowitz is a genius. the next shia labeouf.
― james franco, Sunday, 16 February 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
― Lamp, Tuesday, February 11, 2014 4:20 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Care to expand on this?
― Walter Galt, Monday, 17 February 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
sorry; expound
― Walter Galt, Monday, 17 February 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
From britisher perspective shit coffee in greasy spoons = cheaper than shit coffee in starbucks
― cardamon, Monday, 17 February 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
missed this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_deCOd1HU
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
sarahel is Marc Horowitz your friend
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 20 February 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
the heart of the joke seems to be a very deadpan take on what a "parody" is
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 February 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
nathan knows it's not legal and will be shut down. in the show, he gives business owners terrible business ideas. the joke is that this is another terrible business idea.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 February 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
Schultz has a shop in Rome now, which is the biggest asshole thing there ever was, if you think about it.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 28, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
Coffee's better is Seattle, harsh truth
― brimstead, Monday, 28 January 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
Possibly, but it's nice to be able to get an espresso for 1 euro on just about any street corner.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
i like the mermaid logo
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
F Starbucks with this faux environmentally sensitive bullshit ad campaign where you get a cheap free re usable plastic cup. First of all they’ve already produced these cups. So hey brain dead latte consumer: you’re not helping the environment. You’re just mitigating the damage that’s already done. Assuming you use the cup for the rest of your life. In 99% of cases though people will stop using them within a year and will store it next to the other reusable cups in their cabinet or will toss it out. F Starbucks.
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
I finally took the plunge this year and started bring a metal thermos to work every day to pick up my morning coffee (not Starbucks btw). Partly out of concern for the environment and partly out of thinking about hot coffee sitting in that plastic lining. Also it stays hotter so I can drink it slower if I want to. I still pour it into a ceramic mug once I get to the office though, since I don't like drinking directly out of a thermos.
― o. nate, Friday, 8 November 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
They really are a shitty company
Kyle Trainer, a barista at the location, said he believed Starbucks eliminated seating due to homeless individuals and people with mental illnesses around the neighborhood. He added that Starbucks does not adequately train team members to manage stressful situations and that the chain would rather “remove the seating, close the bathroom and not deal with it.
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-castro-starbucks-seating-removed-17854447.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:59 (eleven months ago) link
Just learned a few weeks ago that a Starbucks in my city near the local high school just completely shuts down from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm every weekday rather than dealing with the horror of *gasp* teenagers.
Whatever, but I often have to drop my son off at the high school for sports related activities during that time frame that aren't really long enough for me to turn around and drive all the way back home, so it'd be nice to sit somewhere other than in my car in a parking lot for 45 minutes.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:07 (eleven months ago) link
And this whole bullshit about calling the employees 'our partners' - are you giving them profit sharing? Stock options? Dividends? They're not your 'partners,' they're workers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:12 (eleven months ago) link
So much of the closing or removal of spaces comes just down to labor; that the company completely refuses to adequately staff and train those locations for that time, isn’t it?
I mean, yes, both are connected to larger problems that city officials tend to refuse to deal with other than sending in cops, true.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:24 (eleven months ago) link