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
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.
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.
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.
These people mostly like star bucks sugar syrup and pretend it’s coffee that they are after
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.
I hate this trend of putting shit at the beginning that I then have to hear again less than 10 seconds later. Like I get it’s for grabbing you but the second I start hearing the same thing again I immediately close the video.
It matters a lot more on platforms like TikTok, where there’s no title, no thumbnail, all you have is the first two seconds of the video before someone swipes away
So, the problem isn’t the video, but the fact that places like tiktok exist. Even worse is that they’re spreading
Fuck Starbucks. It’s not the first time I mention this, and I’ll keep mentioning it: When Corona hit Germany, the government reduced the VAT to prevent restaurants from going bankrupt in 2020. Starbucks gave every customer the finger and did not lower the prices, keeping the difference for themselves. I was never a regular customer but this made me blacklist them for life.
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Pfeffergrat erinnt?
Prime example of: “capitalism breeds innovation”
The taste of their coffee is what made me blacklist them.
My country reduced European VAT tax on coffee and nearly every coffee shop kept the prices at the same level. The government raised them back again later. I’d say this is not starbucks-specific, reducing VAT to lower the prices just doesn’t work.
The petrol stations are currently doing the same.
Wow that guy doesn’t even look human. No wonder he had no issue mandating all employees return to the office while he flew a private jet from California to Seattle every day.
Its also hilarious he has that ear piece in his ear so that his PR team can feed the machine the ‘correct’ focus-grouped response to every question.
He doesn’t even look to the camera. He’s looking to some script that is behind.
I’m pretty sure the earpiece is so he can hear the interviewer.
Makes sense. I was assuming he was sitting in his quiet office and using the laptop speakers but I suppose that would create feedback for the microphones
He’s the same piece of shit that fired all the corporate Chipotle employees in Denver to move their headquarters to Newport Beach, because that’s where his house is.
The interviewer’s inability to hide his reaction is priceless
Premium my ass.
I love our local coffee place. We bring our dogs. The baristas bring them cups of whipped cream. The place is cozy and they sell art from local artists. And the coffee is actually good and doesn’t taste like someone burned it. I usually make my own coffee, but it’s nice to go there once a week and just enjoy being there. That is premium.
Be careful with the whipped cream cups.
This was/is a starbucks thing and it’s really fucking bad for the dogs. It can be a huge amount of fat the equates to a human eating multiple big macs.
Good tip, thank you. We do keep an eye on our dogs’ diets and weights, generally.
I love making my own coffee, but I also love going to a local shop every now and then (at home and when I’m on the road)
Whereas I don’t love making coffee every day, it’s a fair sight cheaper and quite a bit faster than even just pulling off into the drive through at my local coffee shop, let alone a Starbucks. It’s boiling water that’s been steeped through ground, roasted beans folks.
Anti union piece of shit
Also interview only included CEO, no labor representation
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.
Let’s just pretend Starbucks coffee didn’t taste like cheap, crusty asshole for a second… Fuck you, Brian!
I think most of their “coffees” are caramel flavored milks
It’s crazy how they can make their coffee taste like they simultaneously undercooked and also burned their coffee beans.
I had a Starbucks franchise owner tell me that Starbucks doesn’t sell coffee; [they] sell an experience.
Then improve the experience, I told him. I seriously have no idea how they’re still around.
Starbucks doesn’t franchise FYI. They have places that sell coffee “Proudly Serve Starbucks Coffee” as well as licensed stores, but those are typically mega corps like Safeway, Target and HMS host.
https://www.tastingtable.com/1633136/we-proudly-serve-starbucks-explained/
Oh, interesting! I didn’t know that!
End of the day it is on us to actually use the tools of haters and trolls to fight back against any of this stuff. But we police ourselves. They trained us to police ourselves away from the tools.
We created the internet. We learned we can use it to shape culture and push back against these rich interests but they also learned it at the same time. So they covertly used bot accounts to push us away from ways to shape our world and instead trained us to use this stuff to post about beans and “its morbing time”
a great moment with a barista.
Hahaha. Good one. Literally a great reason to buy independent.
“Starbucks CEO, easily replaced by AI. Here, we’ll show you why that’s the case.”
I mean the sterility of his appearance could’ve fooled me.
Calling the stuff you buy at Starbucks coffee? What they sell is all sorts of sugar in a cup. This is not a coffee place, it is a diabetes hole.
you are allowed to get a black coffee
The most over roasted slop around, sure. There’s a reason why that place serves pure diabetes, their black coffee is kinda gross.
maybe the coffee is gross so that it can pair with the diabetes. That much sugar needs a very strong flavor to offset it.
Or Starbucks just uses the absolute cheapest beans on the market and then burns them for that truly consistent char flavor, which they then have to turn into diabetes to make palatable.
Either way, it’s just not good.
No one does that though, because Starbucks coffee is terrible. It’s over-roasted charcoal crap. If you order a black coffee, do yourself a favour and get a nice, light-roasted pour over from an independent cafe serving locally roasted, single-origin coffee. Good coffee should smell like a mix of dried fruit, floral perfume, and toasted nuts, not burnt rubber.
Listen man, I get it, you don’t like dark roasts but you don’t have to yuck other peoples yums. Could they get a better one than at Starbucks? Sure. Is there anything wrong with a nice dark roast? No.
I buy dark roasts from a local coffee roaster in my city. They don’t have any fruit or floral notes, but they taste like dark chocolate, not burnt rubber. They’re good dark roasts. Starbucks is still crap. It only tastes good in a giant cup of milk and sugar and caramel sauce.
That wasn’t about dark roasts, that was about Starbucks’ coffee and roast. There’s a big difference. Starbucks goes darker than most specialty roasters’ dark roasts.
Also, “burnt rubber” notes often come from robusta coffee. Robusta is cheap, easy to grow, and has a long shelf life. The darker it’s roasted, the less it tastes like burnt rubber[1]. But Starbucks claims that they use 100% arabica. If true, then it’s almost impressive that they made it taste like that.
There are some amazing, exceptional robustas, but you won’t find them in commodity coffee or Starbucks ↩︎
They do have light and medium roasts, too. I’m not saying their coffee is great, but it’s not all burnt either.
Yes, and all of their roast levels are darker than what you’d get from most specialty roasters
If you pay 9$ for that it will just make you sad. Let them pour some sugar milk foam in it so at least you don’t know that you are drinking burnt mediocre coffee.
you’re talkin to a guy who dumps instant coffee into cold water. starbucks cold brew black is at least vaguely ok. plus its way less expensive to get it without all the fixins. and yes, still infinitely more expensive than brewing your bean water yourself
Which statistically is likely the least selling menu item at a Starbucks and probably also tastes like shit
