starbucks is taking over the world

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jcrim

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Originally Posted by ruaround
Ohhh yaa!!! Beer is my poison... I really enjoy a nice amber ale, but it gives me a spot of the winds...Drinkin a cold one now... and I dont care for scotch...leaves a horrible after taste
Beer's like a food group. Good scotch is tasty but not too much... the hangover's unbarable. For a little high class fun, I'll take a dirty martini... rocks with bleu cheese stuffed olives...mmm
 

darth tang

Active Member
This may be long. I don't know.
I HATE STARBUCKS!!!
I have been four times in my life.. The girls in my shop love so I have ran out and got them some before...even my girlfriend sent me at 9 at night one, she won't do that again.
Reason #1. If you have a drive thru for coffee, your drive thru should function quicker, if not twice as fast as yopur regular service. If not, you have wasted money on construction. Not only are you forsing me to burn 2.23 in gasoline while sit through your poor service line you call a drive thu, you charge me 15.23 for three cups of coffee. Over priced crap. Don't give me the crap about pay high dollar for good coffee beans and helping the working man. Last I checked the U.S. doesn't grow coffee beans or employ bean pickers in this country. So you aren't helping anyone in this country besides the corporate entities you pay the high dollars to, that are still going to pay Juan Valdeze 23 cents an hour to pick coffee beans. Nice try though.
Reason #2. Triple ristreto venti 7 pump sugar free vanila 180 soy three equal extra foamy carmale machiato. If it takes you longer to say the name of what you want that it would to pound one out in the bathroom.......there is a serious problem. Those people that need there daily fix of this coffee need help. What did you drink before Starbucks? A pepsi coke vanilla pumped dr. pepper sprite splash triple shot rootbeer three scoop folgers extra large coffee? Get over yourself. What you ordered is not coffee. Coffee is, beans, sugar and cream. That is it!
Reason #3. There is something seriously wrong with a place when people will order coffee and then sit there for hours sipping their coffee. Take your coffee and go. What is the matter with you? Does the decor at Starbucks out do the comforts of your home that much? Can't you hook up your lap top or read your 700 page novel at home while drinking that coffee? You people are taking up the space. Those of us that have been forced to order coffee from this hell hole would like to be able to sit down while we are waiting the 25 minutes it takes for our order. But no, you yuppie metro-sexual crack heads have to sit there and force me to stand.
Reason #4. I gave you my order. Do not proceed to then ask me fifteen more questions about the cup of coffee I ordered. You have a menu. I recited what I want off your menu. It isn't that darn hard. Your menu should be straight forward. You have no need to ask me any further questions. I don't go to an Italian restaurant, order spaghetti, then proceed to be asked which spices I want in the sauce. If I want my meatballs hand rolled or machine rolled. If I want wheat or normal noodles. Get it? It is YOUR menu...make it how it is supposed to be made according to your menu. I just want some damn coffee and your questions are adding 10 minutes to my already existing 20 minutes I have to wait. In the mean time your line is moving out the door, yet no one is braving your drive thru and you keep asking me question THAT DON'T MATTER!
Reason #5. What is wrong with small, medium, and Large? Enough said.
Reason #6. Coffee is supposed to be HOT!!! Just because some crackhead of a lady sued a company because their coffee was hot, and she was retarded enough to pour it her lap without the knowledge it was hot (except the steam from the cup and the fact her hands could feel the heat through the cup) and burn herself in the holy land, does NOT imply coffee should be chilled and served with Ice. It was bad enough when they did this with tea. It isn't wine and should NOT be chilled. So knock it off. Coffee is HOT!
Reason #7. What the hell is a Starbuck? If that is the founder's name, he should have changed his name just Like Colonel Sanders should have. Just because you are born with retarded name does not mean you have to keep it. Muchless name your over-priced and time consuming coffee shop after it.
That is it for now.
 

37g joe

Member
We do Grow Coffee in the U.S Buddy In hawawi which is the only place in the U.S that we can grow it to its special needs. My personal starbucks does not have a drive through but they are thier boecouse of convienece if you dont like them come walk into the store are you to lazy to walk into the store. a Cup of brewed Coffee the Largest size we have is $1.70 now if you want to get speciallty drinks and buy the most expensive thing on the menu then have at it but if you just get a regular cup of coffee which is 200 degrees and required By law we cant have hotter than that. also if you go to a resturan ask for somthing on the menue they do ask you many questions do you want those egges scrambled or fried do you want beans or mash potatoes.if some on ask for a 16 ounce moch we dont ask any more than that but say they ask for a soy mocha I well ask if they dont want the whip on top in case they do soy because of an alergic reaction to milk (sorry for my concern) maybe foldgers pays Juan 23 cents an hour but starbucks does not we actually give good wages to our growers that is a fact and if you would like I can get you all the specs on this. but I guess you think we should take advantage of the third worl contries.
Have you ever read moby ---- Starbuck was I believe the first matre on that boat thats where they got the Idea starbucks was founded in seattle a big port city. and Im sorry if people like the starbucks atmosphere and want to sit down and listen to music and talk to thier friends then let them they enjoy it not everyoune likes the same thing. Venti is Italian for 20 (20 ounce3 cup grande means big . It is a gimic to set them selves apart but it does work.
Now what gets me is that your so upset about people liking something how about you be upset about something that maters in this world the fact that in sudan 5 million christians have been buutchard by that goverment in the last ten years. but no you want to dictate how other people have thier coffee alright dude good luck with that
 

darth tang

Active Member
Originally Posted by 37g Joe
We do Grow Coffee in the U.S Buddy In hawawi which is the only place in the U.S that we can grow it to its special needs. My personal starbucks does not have a drive through but they are thier boecouse of convienece if you dont like them come walk into the store are you to lazy to walk into the store. a Cup of brewed Coffee the Largest size we have is $1.70 now if you want to get speciallty drinks and buy the most expensive thing on the menu then have at it but if you just get a regular cup of coffee which is 200 degrees and required By law we cant have hotter than that. also if you go to a resturan ask for somthing on the menue they do ask you many questions do you want those egges scrambled or fried do you want beans or mash potatoes.if some on ask for a 16 ounce moch we dont ask any more than that but say they ask for a soy mocha I well ask if they dont want the whip on top in case they do soy because of an alergic reaction to milk (sorry for my concern) maybe foldgers pays Juan 23 cents an hour but starbucks does not we actually give good wages to our growers that is a fact and if you would like I can get you all the specs on this. but I guess you think we should take advantage of the third worl contries.
Have you ever read moby ---- Starbuck was I believe the first matre on that boat thats where they got the Idea starbucks was founded in seattle a big port city. and Im sorry if people like the starbucks atmosphere and want to sit down and listen to music and talk to thier friends then let them they enjoy it not everyoune likes the same thing. Venti is Italian for 20 (20 ounce3 cup grande means big . It is a gimic to set them selves apart but it does work.
Now what gets me is that your so upset about people liking something how about you be upset about something that maters in this world the fact that in sudan 5 million christians have been buutchard by that goverment in the last ten years. but no you want to dictate how other people have thier coffee alright dude good luck with that

I was mainly joking. But since you cite how well the company is paying coffee growers. Take a look at this from an article in Time Magazine. It was mainly discussing coffee beans and how they are the biggest trade commodity after oil. But it went into some detail about companies.
"Starbucks' reluctance has less to do with the cost of beans than with the hassle of rejiggering its supply chain. The company is no Scrooge. It pays on average $1.20 per lb.
for its high-quality beans, well above average. But most of that money goes to multinational exporters, who buy from middlemen in coffee regions. The giant traders pool beans from small plots and big estates. The anonymous farmer earns a sliver of what Starbucks pays. But Fair Trade's 346 struggling farmer-owned co-ops might need hands-on training and investment to meet Starbucks' specs, an investment the company might find expensive. "
Like I said...helping corporate get rich and the farmer gets hardly anything.
If you took offense to what I said...maybe that is because there is some truth to what I said.
And trust me...I am not crusading against Starbucks. There are bigger issues in the world. I discuss these all the time as well.
Just relax and be a happy Barista................
 
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jdragunas

Guest
Originally Posted by Darth Tang
...Reason #6. Coffee is supposed to be HOT!!! Just because some crackhead of a lady sued a company because their coffee was hot, and she was retarded enough to pour it her lap without the knowledge it was hot (except the steam from the cup and the fact her hands could feel the heat through the cup) and burn herself in the holy land, does NOT imply coffee should be chilled and served with Ice. It was bad enough when they did this with tea. It isn't wine and should NOT be chilled. So knock it off. Coffee is HOT!...
actually, that poor lady had every right to the money she earned in that law suite. She was an elderly lady, that ordered a cup of coffee, and specified to the employee that she cannot have hot coffee because she had skin conditions. She requested that a few ice cubes be put into her coffee to cool it down. However, the stupid employee didn't comply with her wishes, and instead gave her scorching hot coffee, and the lid wasn't on all the way. The old lady accidentally spilled the coffee on her lap, which caused 3rd degree burns on like 15% of her body. She then had to be taken to the hospital, where she had to have skin grafts to repair the damage done to her stomache and legs. When she filed a complaint with mickey d's, all she asked for was to be reimbursed for the medical bills she incurred because of the incident. However, the franchisee wouldn't allow it, and therefore she sued. She won because she deserved it, and the franchisee would've been smart to just reimburse her for the medical bills.
but other than that, i found your reasons to be quite humorous, and i completely agree.

and taking offense to what darth said is just another example of people going out of their way to get offended by stupid little things... once again, a waste of time.
 

darth tang

Active Member
Originally Posted by jdragunas
actually, that poor lady had every right to the money she earned in that law suite. She was an elderly lady, that ordered a cup of coffee, and specified to the employee that she cannot have hot coffee because she had skin conditions. She requested that a few ice cubes be put into her coffee to cool it down. However, the stupid employee didn't comply with her wishes, and instead gave her scorching hot coffee, and the lid wasn't on all the way. The old lady accidentally spilled the coffee on her lap, which caused 3rd degree burns on like 15% of her body. She then had to be taken to the hospital, where she had to have skin grafts to repair the damage done to her stomache and legs. When she filed a complaint with mickey d's, all she asked for was to be reimbursed for the medical bills she incurred because of the incident. However, the franchisee wouldn't allow it, and therefore she sued. She won because she deserved it, and the franchisee wouldv'e been smart to just reimburse her for the medical bills.
Jesus....doesn't anyone catch a joke anymore? JD, I knew the logistics of the story...I was making a "funny" reference.
JD, come on, did you really expect me to not know that?
 
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jdragunas

Guest
no, but most people don't...
i know you were joking! Calm the heck down darthy-poo!!! I was merely telling the story for most other people who don't know it.
 

darth tang

Active Member
Originally Posted by jdragunas
no, but most people don't...
i know you were joking! Calm the heck down darthy-poo!!! I was merely telling the story for most other people who don't know it.
Will you feed me grapes while calling me darthy-poo?
 

darth tang

Active Member
Originally Posted by jdragunas
how much does it pay?
Pay? It doesn't....but I will give you a really cool title like Barista or something.
 
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jdragunas

Guest
JC, you gotta stop changing your avtar... i didn't even know it was you...
 

darth tang

Active Member
Originally Posted by jdragunas
you gotta come up with something better than that...

How about fruit consumption supervisor?
 
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jcrim

Guest
Originally Posted by jdragunas
JC, you gotta stop changing your avtar... i didn't even know it was you...
I change my socks everyday... what's the difference? :jumping:
 
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jdragunas

Guest
supervisor... doesn't have that much of a ring to it...
and JC, i don't recognize you by your socks, so that's ok...
 

darth tang

Active Member
Originally Posted by jdragunas
supervisor... doesn't have that much of a ring to it...
...
How about fruit consuption technical specialist?
 

ruaround

Active Member
Originally Posted by jdragunas
supervisor... doesn't have that much of a ring to it...
I would make you a erotic sustanance executive...
 
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