Anti union piece of shit
Also interview only included CEO, no labor representation
I got an espresso machine a few years ago and learned to make a proper latte with it. At this point, a $9 cup of charry sugar water made by a teenager in a fast food restaurant doesn’t really appeal to me.
My coffee experience is fine thank you. Every morning I boil the kettle, hand crank the grinder while it’s heating. Combine in the French press, wait a minute, stir, wait 4-5 more, press and pour into my mug.
It’s a great morning routine, less than 10 minutes, cheap and results in a great cup. I have no interest in the coffee flavored milkshakes they serve so why would I ever set foot in a coffee shop?
a great moment with a barista.
Hahaha. Good one. Literally a great reason to buy independent.
They need some way to pay for the year he commuted to Seattle by private jet.
Also, he is the asshole who said to keep raising the prices at Chipotle.
Fuck him. I will drink Folgers (and I do) before I’ll drink your shit.
I work an a facility next to a few fast food joints, a Japanese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, and a Chipotle. Pretty much the only restaurant we don’t order from is Chipotle.
… Chipotle is real restaurant prices for a fastfood experience.
yeah, it’s hardly worth the price, and honestly, I haven’t liked their roast since the 90s. nothing worth this bullshit.
The coffee sucks, the tables are all filled or dirty and sticky, the outside seating is in a parking lot, baking in the sun, the drive through is backed up to the interstate, the food is re-heated trash that costs a fortune, the atmosphere is boring factory produced trash, and the wifi is so slow it’s like it doesn’t exist.
Why. Why on earth would I go to starbucks
People are absolute zombies for it. In the airport, there’s always a line into the concourse for that overpriced burnt shit. There are other coffee and bagel and donut shops mere steps away whose coffee is cheaper and better.
I was in fucking midtown manhattan last week, with amazing coffee shops on every block. Still a line out the door at Starbucks. Like what the fuck, people.
And yet they are still making loads of money. Mind you I’d kina hope they start to die so I can get one of their machines for home from liquidation auction.
They’re making so much money that they’re still opening Starbuckses across the street from Startbuckses. Make it make sense.
The line must go up
IDGAF. Why are you buying Starbucks anyway, their coffee is just flavoured, caffeinated sugar water. I don’t see a big deal with $9 for a cup of piss. Rich people will pay even more if you tell them some lies about the water being shipped from the Himalayan mountains to make the coffee. Charge them whatever the fuck you want. Rich people ripping off rich people is a win win.
Are people really so addicted to Starbucks that this is a big deal? And there’s no better and cheaper coffee?
It’s worse than that. Obviously he’s not talking about the coffee. He doesn’t even paint it as good-quality coffee. He’s saying people go for the experience of enjoying the coffee in a pleasant environment. He actually believes people go to Starbucks because they like being at Starbucks.
That used to be their whole shtick, the third place experience. They wanted people to treat Starbucks as where they go when they want to relax or meet with friends, a place outside of their home and work, where the baristas knew their names and would chat and make them feel welcome. Especially a lot of older folks liked that, and would make it part of their routine. Starbucks threw that all away when they went to prioritising drive thru and mobile order/pay systems. It’s a shareholder business and this is capitalism. It’s either neverending growth or death.
I don’t even think he’s wrong
It’s sad to think there are people in the world that think Starbucks coffee is nice.
It’s “coffee” for people who don’t really like coffee and want to drink something warm with cream, sugary syrup and artificial flavoring.
These people mostly like star bucks sugar syrup and pretend it’s coffee that they are after
The original Starbucks was pretty good and even for a while after they started the franchise they were still a bit above average quality. They’re crap now, but that was a slow decline over the last decade. So they can coast on the reputation the original built and rely on their current customers either not ever having had good coffee or not noticing the slow incremental decline.
Yeah, Starbucks finally has a few places here in Copenhagen, but that was after a few years of simply not getting a hold anywhere; shops that opened, stayed for less than a year, then closed.
The competition here is Joe and the Juice, a local company, and various small privately owned baristas.
Starbucks has some permanent places right now, but they’re still not big. Haven’t heard many people say positive things about them.
I just want to say your city is awesome. That is all.
I mean, let’s be real, how much does a banana even cost Michael? Twelve dollars?
A $96-million dollar douche defends a $9 cup of coffee
This guy is delusional, saying a $9 cup of coffee is affordable has “it’s one banana, Michael” energy.
He’s not saying it’s affordable though. He just said that it’s 9 bucks and we have to make that be worth it
A barista would need to serve like 2 coffees an hour to cover their wage
We should really stop paying attention to what CEOs and other parasites have to say. They only serve the shareholders.
Same logic for using drugs.
“I can’t afford anything actually nice but I do have 20 bucks.”
Honestly there is a lot more value in a 20 sack though.
So they think I want a 9$ premium experience with a Batista who the mselves could likely not afford that experience. Yuck.
I’m in India, and when I was in college, first Starbucks in the city was opened and a few of my friends including me wanted to try it. We all spent 500-600 INR ($4-5) which was a lot. After taking the first sip, we all came to the conclusion that the coffee sold at the college canteen for ₹20 was better than this overpriced slop.
I make coffee at my home for less than a dollar and I love the taste and I love the experience.
