Coffee has its place. I require caffiene daily, and a coffee shop two doors down from the building I work in is a convenient one. HOWEVER...a few comments for the fine folks at Starbucks.
1) Please don't make me say "venti" - it is a large.
2) Is a tip for charging me over $3 for a coffee when all you did was write my name on the cup and put and H and an L in the appropriate boxes on said cup appropriate? I'm not a tightwad. I'm a good tipper, but all you did was take my order and give me change! Come on! I saw that overflowing tin of $1 bills and I thought, hell, who knew what a fine living you could make serving coffee with Italian names!?!
3) The marketing and advertisement of coffee as if it is some other-worldly zen experience is a bit ridiculous, isn't it?
4) Can there be more names for combinations of coffee, milk, steam, and syrup? ooh, add ice and now its a frappafreakingcino?
5) Will the arrogance ever end? IT'S COFFEE! Cowboys drank it out of tin cups cooked over a fire. Maxwell House makes it. Some fine greasy spoon establishments serve the bottomless cup for 50 cents! Three BUCKS? Are you kidding? Oh, that's right, you have wifi and comfy chairs...we pay for ambiance even when all we do is take it to go in a paper cup.
I do, however, appreciate the cardboard sleeve around the cup so I don't burn my hand, though I love the hypocrisy now that they are "committed to reducing our environmental impact through increasing use of recycled post-consumer materials." The sleeve is the "FIRST EVER 60% post consumer fiber sleeve" with fine print that reads it is "intended for single use only". How waste-minded and environmentally sound they have become.
Who knew the kind of coffee we drink would become a social status, and that they could play to peace of mind ethics and social consciousness all on one paper cup?
For the love of caffiene!
1) Please don't make me say "venti" - it is a large.
2) Is a tip for charging me over $3 for a coffee when all you did was write my name on the cup and put and H and an L in the appropriate boxes on said cup appropriate? I'm not a tightwad. I'm a good tipper, but all you did was take my order and give me change! Come on! I saw that overflowing tin of $1 bills and I thought, hell, who knew what a fine living you could make serving coffee with Italian names!?!
3) The marketing and advertisement of coffee as if it is some other-worldly zen experience is a bit ridiculous, isn't it?
4) Can there be more names for combinations of coffee, milk, steam, and syrup? ooh, add ice and now its a frappafreakingcino?
5) Will the arrogance ever end? IT'S COFFEE! Cowboys drank it out of tin cups cooked over a fire. Maxwell House makes it. Some fine greasy spoon establishments serve the bottomless cup for 50 cents! Three BUCKS? Are you kidding? Oh, that's right, you have wifi and comfy chairs...we pay for ambiance even when all we do is take it to go in a paper cup.
I do, however, appreciate the cardboard sleeve around the cup so I don't burn my hand, though I love the hypocrisy now that they are "committed to reducing our environmental impact through increasing use of recycled post-consumer materials." The sleeve is the "FIRST EVER 60% post consumer fiber sleeve" with fine print that reads it is "intended for single use only". How waste-minded and environmentally sound they have become.
Who knew the kind of coffee we drink would become a social status, and that they could play to peace of mind ethics and social consciousness all on one paper cup?
For the love of caffiene!