Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles

Post by tim333 » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 10:09 PM UTC

jorisboris wrote: post #59

DarkNova6 wrote: post #19

I never understood Starbucks. I live in Europe, we have good coffee places everywhere. They are cheaper and serve significantly better coffee. I can't think of anything I ordered from Starbucks that didn't taste artificial.

Its not for the coffee They are not hostile to laptops, and overall they have a well-thought out vibe with convenient seating and electricity plugs everywhere

Post by bombcar » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 10:47 PM UTC

ecshafer wrote: post #52

deadbabe wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I go to Starbucks for the co-working vibes, not the coffee. When are small coffee shops going to understand, if you have a 1 hour limit on how long I can sit there on my laptop (if you even allow laptops), I’m not going to go to your shop. Coffee doesn’t matter, it’s all the same shit. Starbucks has never cared if I buy one coffee and then sit there all day.

I hate going to independent coffee shops and having people hogging tables with laptops. It destroys the vibe of the place.

Post by bombcar » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 11:18 PM UTC

ecshafer wrote: post #43

jsbisviewtiful wrote: post #12

Feel bad for those employees. In the last 10 years I've gotten Starbucks maybe twice, both times because we were on the road and needed coffee... and it was the only option. A true fall from grace; The drinks are either sugar bombs or taste burnt and corp loves union busting.

> The drinks are either sugar bombs or taste burnt You can order exactly as much sugar as you want for their drinks. If you order a Cappuccino with milk or a coffee or Americano, there isn't any sugar in any of the drinks.

Post by tetris11 » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 11:24 PM UTC

rdtsc wrote: post #68

DarkNova6 wrote: post #19

I never understood Starbucks. I live in Europe, we have good coffee places everywhere. They are cheaper and serve significantly better coffee. I can't think of anything I ordered from Starbucks that didn't taste artificial.

> I never understood Starbucks It's the McDonalds of coffee. There are lot of better restaurants than McDonalads for sure but a random restaurant could also be worse. So McDonalds provides some low common denominator consistency. Same with Starbucks, coffee may not be the best and sandwiches are so so, but you know what you're getting there. I find myself there when I travel to another city and need to grab something…

Post by projectazorian » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 11:55 PM UTC

RyanOD wrote: post #63

DarkNova6 wrote: post #19

I never understood Starbucks. I live in Europe, we have good coffee places everywhere. They are cheaper and serve significantly better coffee. I can't think of anything I ordered from Starbucks that didn't taste artificial.

It has always seemed to me that Starbucks has one thing going for it - consistency. I used to go into smaller coffee shops and it was a 50/50 gamble that I was going to get terrible coffee (though more recently, I've had better luck). At least with Starbucks I knew I was going to get average coffee every single time. That being said, I make 95% of my coffee at home.