― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha, on a related note: Blimpie! I don't think I've ever actually eaten anything from a Blimpie, but they have the crappest spots I've ever seen -- they invariably look so old and horrible and low-rent, and half the time there's a nice clean Subway two doors down.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
The Blimpie right off of Union Sq. is one of the most depressing places in the city.
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Some delis have good coffee - I think you can usually tell by taking a quick peak behind the counter - do you see a grinder? Does their equipment look clean and well-maintained? Can you spot any bags, cans or other evidence of coffee brands you like or don't like?
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes. SF is pretty consistent everywhere, but quality goes up as you go NW. One of the best cups of coffee I've ever had came from a broken down gas station in the Eastern WA wastelands.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Stanley Fish is confused by Starbucks.
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Stanley Fish is my university's "professor at large"!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I should also point out that Fish may be referring to the two Starbucks on campus, which are, indeed, pretty appalling.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha, I never knew that's where he ended up! He was at UIC for a while; a friend of mine audited a class of his.
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd have liked it better if the article was about Starbucks as an interpretive community. I'd have thought that putting the onus on the consumer to dress up his or her own coffee would have interested him in the same way as reader-response criticism.
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
That's probably a class project.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
oh no!
http://www.slate.com/id/2180301/nav/tap3/
― gabbneb, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
let's be honest, we're talking about drugs here
― gff, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
drugs that i need very badly right now
Orange County, Calif., coffeehouse owner Martin Diedrich started hyperventilating when he first heard a Starbucks was opening "within a stone's throw" of his cafe, yet he reported similar results: "I didn't suffer whatsoever. Ultimately I prospered, in no small part because of it."
Okay, this is WAY disengenuous on his part; then again I think he's trying to put the past fifteen years all behind him. (First he ended up allied with the PepsiCo/Taco Bell empire for leverage, then all the assets of Diedrich got sold to Starbucks anyway and the entire chain is almost nothing now.) On the bright side he landed on his feet and has restarted with Kéan Coffee but even so.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
It's entirely possible that he's talking strictly about a Starbucks opening near Kéan! (Which is true, having just been in the area yesterday.) I suppose you have to look at any bright side you can.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
They consolidated me and the boyfriend's two $5 gift cards so we could buy $8 worth of coffee and they returned a giftcard with $38 on it. Coffee coffee coffee free coffee.
― Abbott, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome
i have been admiring the return to the original brand
― gabbneb, Saturday, 31 May 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
ouch:
SEE ALSO Starbucks reports falling profits 30 Apr 08 | Business Starbucks hit by housing slowdown 24 Apr 08 | Business Starbucks turns to customer ideas 09 Apr 08 | Business Starbucks must pay $100m in tips 21 Mar 08 | Americas Starbucks in temporary US closure 26 Feb 08 | Americas Starbucks announces HQ job cuts 22 Feb 08 | Business Why Starbucks' sales have gone cold 01 Feb 08 | Business
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
There isn't a corporate logo in the world that can't be improved by asking "WHERE THE TITTIES AT???"
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Predicition: Starbucks new marketing push is not going to turn them around.
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Prediction: No one will give a fuck either.
still my favorite post on this thread:
My god I'd so go to a Starbucks that had Hanle y behind the counter causing trouble.
― Eisbaer, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
They should get back into whaling.
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/business/02sbux.html
― Ed, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED13%20Jan%202009%2020%3A43%3A18%3A030
― Eddie Funnie (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
How do you feel about Starbucks? NOt the coffee, the corporation. Allot of people seem sort of indifferent while many wan t to fire bomb them. How do YOU feel ? I workd there for a year and caused much trouble, as I didn't agree with most of their policies!
― Pennysong Hanle y, Saturday, September 8, 2001 2:00 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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kind of fucked up that this isn't being reported, ain't it?
― Eddie Funnie (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Would it be overly pedantic to point out that you just linked to a report of it?
― Lord Byron Lived Here, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, in that widely read tome the east london advertiser.
― Eddie Funnie (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23618498-details/Starbucks+is+firebombed+%27in+protest+against+Israel%27/article.do
― Lord Byron Lived Here, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
fair nuff. i would have expected the guardian and independent to have covered it, but also possibly to have offered some comment. amid the harry's p-word hysteria it is a bit rich.
― Eddie Funnie (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
starbucks, they peddle espresso drinks that are a little too expensive, and coffee that has noticeably improved in the last year or so (and which isn't expensive at all), and from what i hear anecdotally their employee sitch is ok, and they're open a lot fucking later than the korean lunch lady's stand down the street even though she has b.l.t.s, which is usually what i'm after, the moral of this is fuck everything without decent bacon lol i love it, especially when it's a ladies' bacon purchase choice vs. microwave costco-style strips, but you have always got to consider the hours.
x-post i'm learning this as it moves along
― matt p (Matt P), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://queenmaryoccupation.blogspot.com/
^^ fuckin guys. QMU is actually a pretty dece university, or at least i thought it was. what a bunch of plankton.
― A Good Story (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Skillz.
― Lord Byron Lived Here, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
That Starbucks has always had its doors smashed in ever since it opened.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link