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So whats the deal with Starbucks?

*$ has the 2 qualities that don't go together in coffee..it's BOTH bitter AND weak, how the feck do they accomplish that? :wtf
 
Roadstergal said:
I worked for Starbuck's for a year. Their 'corporate ethic' includes extensive benefits, including health, dental, and vision care, for even hourly baristas. How many 'mom and pop' stores treat their employees half as well?

As far as quality goes - like anywhere else, you get a good drink there if the barista cares, and a lousy one if he/she doesn't.
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Please 2 be keeping yer sensible and rational thoughts out of the *$ H8 thread kthxbye!

:teeth
 
Starbucks coffee is the BEST Period. I've never found any other brands beens to be worth a hill of them...
Just because they aren't making your foofoo drinks the way you like them, doesn't mean the coffee is bad. Bad, like that Kona crap that smells like mold out of a 65 Studabaker's trunk. Bad, like that burnt assed Pete's crap they try pawning off on the public. If the beens were bad, they would be selling me anything, but they are the BEST!
 
pshelton said:
I had to go to Orinda the other day. It has a population of 17,000. It's 12 square miles. And there are THREE Starbucks. THREE. One on either side of 24 and one in the f'g Safeway. Reminds me of the Onion article, "Starbucks Opens Starbucks Inside of Starbucks." http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29030

I got no use for Starbucks OR Orinda (except to get to Bear Valley Road).
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Livermore (70,000) has 12 Starbucks. It's ridiculous. There are 2 of them in the same plaza. I don't understand that.
 
ph0enix said:
I'm sure many would like be able to do that. They just can't afford it but that's a whole other topic.
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I interviewed at a few of those, because at the time that I started looking, I was in the "Corporate! Evil!" mode m'self. I didn't get the feeling they were interested in giving their baristas more than minimum wage, and would have been happier if they hadn't had to do that. ;)

Working in a coffee shop did make me a coffee snob. Now I have to make my own to like it. Unfortunately, my Ulka pump gave up the ghost in the most recent of my moves. :( Time to find another one.

To try to drag this back to something approximating moto-relevant - I've never tried to fill a Camelbak with a latte.
 
You CAN'T get good coffee or good beans at Starbucks. Because there just isn't that much good coffee being grown around the world. When you serve 80 scrillion cups a day, you HAVE to buy whatever the farmers are selling. So anything at Starbucks that claims to be special, hand picked by a naked slave virgin or whatever, just ain't true. It's Folgers or Hills Brothers in a fancier package. Like Dennis Miller say, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
 
pshelton said:
You CAN'T get good coffee or good beans at Starbucks. Because there just isn't that much good coffee being grown around the world. When you serve 80 scrillion cups a day, you HAVE to buy whatever the farmers are selling. So anything at Starbucks that claims to be special, hand picked by a naked slave virgin or whatever, just ain't true. It's Folgers or Hills Brothers in a fancier package. Like Dennis Miller say, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
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As we delve deeper into Kitchen Sinkiness with this thread.... How could this be true?

Maybe I'm not catching what you're saying, 3 days of a 102 degree fever has warped me fragile little mind a wee bit, but still... Starbucks tastes the same wherever you go. That double tall hot no whip extra nonfat super sugar caramel whatever is going to taste the same whether I get it from the 'bucks in Orinda, Livermore, San Jose, Seattle, Warsaw, or Kiev. By that reasoning, there has got to be some consistancy with the coffee they are buying, or else it wouldn't taste the same everywhere you go.
 
My niece worked there and said the make everything out of "universal coffee beverage powder substance".

True?
Comment Roadstergal?
 
The majority of the 'coffee drinks' that peope buy, at Starbuck's or at the local mom and pop, are so saturated with sugar and milk that you can't really taste the coffee. ;)
 
Don't forget you're also paying for the nice services they are providing, the comfortable chairs and the soothing music. It's not just the coffee, some people will pay that much for the environment and the experience.
 
9 bucks sucks...as mentioned above, the only time I'll go is to meet people before leaving somewhere.

We have a kick ass coffee shop in Campbell, 1 block from 9 bucks, coffee actually tastes like coffee, and there's the other one in the Pruneyard too thats pretty good.
 
I get my coffee at 7-11 its the same F'ing drip *bucks has got at half the price.


:twofinger

and if i want someone to be nice to me I turn to my woman who doesnt charge me $4.50

peace out Bitchesssssss.......:twofinger
 
silverbelt said:
Used to go the *$ on market/beale street, but then I tried the peets over on market/main and never went back to *$ anymore. Peets is so much better, the lines are longer, but the hot asian women around there is good eye candy :nerd
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We should get together for a Peets, I get my coffee at that store or at Cafe Algiers on Beale/Mission


*edit* the Vasco Rd *$ is a good meeting spot for peeps getting together for road trips comming from SF & SJ. Also good for grouping up for a Mines Rd assault. I think it has more to do with location and proximity to a gas station without acctualy haning out at said gas station than the quality of coffee.

Starbux was great when it was a Washington only thing, it expanded and quality went downhill :(
 
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Only reason is group rides have a start at a Starbux. I don't drink coffee, let alone fancy pants coffee.
Group rides autta start at Denny's or Cafes. Sure could go for a grand slam breakfast.
Heh meet a rider on a tricked out BMW. The one with the coffee maker and toaster oven. In honor of the riders who didn't show (Milk and frosted flakes).
 
+1 for Peets. Wish there was a Peets in my neck of the woods.

I go to Starbucks quite alot. There are 3 within a 1 mile radius from my house. Their drip isn't too bad. Definitely better than the AM/PM or 7-11 drip someone mentioned above (IMO). I'm not a latte/mocha/frapp/capp type coffee drinker so can't really comment on the quality of those types of coffee drinks. I usually order a doppio and a small drip. Those two drinks are pretty consistent regardless of what Starbucks I go to. I haven't run into a Starbucks drip where I thought a 7-11 coffee was better. <shrugs shoulders>
 
silverbelt said:
Used to go the *$ on market/beale street, but then I tried the peets over on market/main and never went back to *$ anymore. Peets is so much better, the lines are longer, but the hot asian women around there is good eye candy :nerd
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F'ing A, Peet's p0wnz *$'s. :teeth

Speaking of posing, has Toe seen this thread yet? :laughing
 
pshelton said:
You CAN'T get good coffee or good beans at Starbucks. Because there just isn't that much good coffee being grown around the world. When you serve 80 scrillion cups a day, you HAVE to buy whatever the farmers are selling. So anything at Starbucks that claims to be special, hand picked by a naked slave virgin or whatever, just ain't true. It's Folgers or Hills Brothers in a fancier package. Like Dennis Miller say, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
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I live by a Starbucks roasting plant and have taken a tour of it. I can tell you the beans come from where they say they do and they do have an army of bean procurers. Like them or not, the process of roasting beans is pretty high tech there. They blow them little babies thru shoots three stories in the air with jet aircraft engines. Based on the blend/roast they have it timed to a nat's ass as to how much heat they get. It's all computer controlled and the quality of the roasting is spot on all the time. Willy Wonka would be proud of that place! :)

I think that is what makes them unique. I have bought home roasted from small shops and sometimes you get 'burnt' and sometimes you get 'extra crispy' :)
 
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