Your opinions on this quote I found...
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1journeyman
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Originally Posted by soto
nothin says entertainment like chuggin pitchers w/ yer buddies and watching nancy-boy golfers try to act like macho football fans....
i like buffalo wings too.
Actually, LOL, being a sober observer during said event provides the greatest entertainment.
nothin says entertainment like chuggin pitchers w/ yer buddies and watching nancy-boy golfers try to act like macho football fans....
i like buffalo wings too.
Actually, LOL, being a sober observer during said event provides the greatest entertainment.
soto
Member
Originally Posted by ruaround
T... do you actually like
Cabo??? i prefer Patron to Cabo... i think its over priced quervo...
normally i do too but i'm gettin a lil burnt out on patron. i've been dustin that stuff for the last 5 years and need somethin different. besides, i'm gonna do everything i can to show support that sammy was better than david.
T... do you actually like
normally i do too but i'm gettin a lil burnt out on patron. i've been dustin that stuff for the last 5 years and need somethin different. besides, i'm gonna do everything i can to show support that sammy was better than david.
lovethesea
Active Member
Originally Posted by ruaround
Cabo??? i prefer Patron
Cabo??? i prefer Patron
37g joe
Member
I am quite conservative and have worked for starbucks for the last 3 1/2 years let me do some explaing on the drinks.
we originally started out in 1971 in seattle 35 years just a few stores not a corporation. The sizes of drinks we started out with where
short (8 ounces)
Tall (12 ounces)
Grande( 16 ounces)
later we added the venti Venti means 20 in Italian ( 20 ounces)
a regular cup of coffee does not cost $3. Here in washington state befor tax our largest regular cup of coffee costs $1.70 and 1.84 after tax the Grande is 1.60 the tall is 1.40 and the short is like 1.20 but I am certain on that one. On regular cups of coffee, Iced Coffee, and Ice tea you get refills for 50cents 54 cents after tax here in washington you can come up and get unlimeted refils for 50 cents each on regular coffee Ice tea and Iced coffee. so for $3 you can buy a venti cup of coffee and get two refils on it thats 60 ounces of coffee (and stil have some change left over thats alot of coffee 64 ounces is half a gallon so bassicly for 3 dollars you get about half a gallon of coffee good deal if you ask me. starbucks gives Its empoyees Full medical insurance and tons of other benifets too this is for any one who works an average of 20 or more hours a week which is no problem at all to get those hours.
their are things I dont agree with starbucks on but the things you guys bring up just make me lauph I dont really like all the slogans on the cup and yes they are quite liberal but their are alot of non liberals who work their too and that come in.
we originally started out in 1971 in seattle 35 years just a few stores not a corporation. The sizes of drinks we started out with where
short (8 ounces)
Tall (12 ounces)
Grande( 16 ounces)
later we added the venti Venti means 20 in Italian ( 20 ounces)
a regular cup of coffee does not cost $3. Here in washington state befor tax our largest regular cup of coffee costs $1.70 and 1.84 after tax the Grande is 1.60 the tall is 1.40 and the short is like 1.20 but I am certain on that one. On regular cups of coffee, Iced Coffee, and Ice tea you get refills for 50cents 54 cents after tax here in washington you can come up and get unlimeted refils for 50 cents each on regular coffee Ice tea and Iced coffee. so for $3 you can buy a venti cup of coffee and get two refils on it thats 60 ounces of coffee (and stil have some change left over thats alot of coffee 64 ounces is half a gallon so bassicly for 3 dollars you get about half a gallon of coffee good deal if you ask me. starbucks gives Its empoyees Full medical insurance and tons of other benifets too this is for any one who works an average of 20 or more hours a week which is no problem at all to get those hours.
their are things I dont agree with starbucks on but the things you guys bring up just make me lauph I dont really like all the slogans on the cup and yes they are quite liberal but their are alot of non liberals who work their too and that come in.
37g joe
Member
Originally Posted by soto
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NOR are the employees. don't ask me how i'm doing right when i walk in the door. it's early and i haven't had coffee- how do you THINK i'm doing??? i don't need questions at this hour! hell, i'm still drunk from the night before.
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I have had many times where I have made peoples days becaus I am polite ask how their morning is and add a little humor to their day. I have had people who where on their ways to funerals where I was Nice to them and did my best to make their day and was kind hearted towards them and have had them come back and thank me for being the only postive thing that happend to them that day. Even when I have a Crappy Day I realsise that I need to try to do my best to make sure other people leave with a smile on their face. Yes it sounds cheasy but I have made alot of friends with the customers that come in. customers who when I am on my break I well sit down with and have a cup of coffee with and ask how everything is doing with them. customers who invite me over or to weddings. alot of elderly people who dont have family near by and come in and need someone to talk to.
I well never feel guilty for trying to make someones day. I have had people who have been rude to me when I ask how they are doing but my philosophy is one customer at a time and when that person is gone to the next customer. I am leaving for the coast guard in less than a month and have had several customers who have expressed to me and my fellow coworkers that I well be missed greatly.
rember when you goto starbucks that maybe you should ask how the baristas day is going or when you go to any place with customer service. I have seen customers throw Hot coffee at My coworkers when they got upset. Just in the Last week alone my store has had to call the cops 3 times. Just yesterday a man came into the store and said that he could kill us all and then left. we called the cops but they did not catch him. this is sombody we never saw befor.
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NOR are the employees. don't ask me how i'm doing right when i walk in the door. it's early and i haven't had coffee- how do you THINK i'm doing??? i don't need questions at this hour! hell, i'm still drunk from the night before.
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I have had many times where I have made peoples days becaus I am polite ask how their morning is and add a little humor to their day. I have had people who where on their ways to funerals where I was Nice to them and did my best to make their day and was kind hearted towards them and have had them come back and thank me for being the only postive thing that happend to them that day. Even when I have a Crappy Day I realsise that I need to try to do my best to make sure other people leave with a smile on their face. Yes it sounds cheasy but I have made alot of friends with the customers that come in. customers who when I am on my break I well sit down with and have a cup of coffee with and ask how everything is doing with them. customers who invite me over or to weddings. alot of elderly people who dont have family near by and come in and need someone to talk to.
I well never feel guilty for trying to make someones day. I have had people who have been rude to me when I ask how they are doing but my philosophy is one customer at a time and when that person is gone to the next customer. I am leaving for the coast guard in less than a month and have had several customers who have expressed to me and my fellow coworkers that I well be missed greatly.
rember when you goto starbucks that maybe you should ask how the baristas day is going or when you go to any place with customer service. I have seen customers throw Hot coffee at My coworkers when they got upset. Just in the Last week alone my store has had to call the cops 3 times. Just yesterday a man came into the store and said that he could kill us all and then left. we called the cops but they did not catch him. this is sombody we never saw befor.
phixer
Active Member
When dealing with the public it comes with the turf. Certainly not an excuse for rude people but Ive found that most of the upper class patronize the one down here because its the fad and expect more than the status quo.
Pricing is effected by the location and the particular franchise.
A bottle of green tea at the one down here is $1.80, the same product next door at Vons is around a $1.00. $1.60 wouldnt pay for the steam off the cup down here but would buy a large cup of get the hell out! Stop by the Starbucks in Coronado and see how much coffee you get for $1.60.
Its more of a condescending novelty item or fashion statement because in reality coffee costs no where near this to make. And the fact that I am supposed to adopt a whole other set of words just to order coffee is, of course, ridiculous. Aside from obscuring the size and cost of things, the language forces you to accept the way Starbucks sees the world. It might seem trivial, but allowing some other entity to control your vocabulary is always evil. Dunkin Donuts, MCD and BK I might add make a mighty fine cup and dont force me to use terms like Grande and barista.
So we have the common complaints of bad, overpriced coffee and the not-so-common complaint of brainwashing and language-bullying. I can't imagine a town or city in this country that doesn't have some alternative to overpriced corporate coffee--a local diner, a cart on the street--so why not walk past the world of baristas and order a simple small, medium, or large coffee, without all the bulls***? But thats OK its free enterprise, just not my cup of tea or coffee or water or...
Pricing is effected by the location and the particular franchise.
A bottle of green tea at the one down here is $1.80, the same product next door at Vons is around a $1.00. $1.60 wouldnt pay for the steam off the cup down here but would buy a large cup of get the hell out! Stop by the Starbucks in Coronado and see how much coffee you get for $1.60.
Its more of a condescending novelty item or fashion statement because in reality coffee costs no where near this to make. And the fact that I am supposed to adopt a whole other set of words just to order coffee is, of course, ridiculous. Aside from obscuring the size and cost of things, the language forces you to accept the way Starbucks sees the world. It might seem trivial, but allowing some other entity to control your vocabulary is always evil. Dunkin Donuts, MCD and BK I might add make a mighty fine cup and dont force me to use terms like Grande and barista.
So we have the common complaints of bad, overpriced coffee and the not-so-common complaint of brainwashing and language-bullying. I can't imagine a town or city in this country that doesn't have some alternative to overpriced corporate coffee--a local diner, a cart on the street--so why not walk past the world of baristas and order a simple small, medium, or large coffee, without all the bulls***? But thats OK its free enterprise, just not my cup of tea or coffee or water or...
37g joe
Member
Originally Posted by Phixer
When dealing with the public it comes with the turf. Certainly not an excuse for rude people but Ive found that most of the upper class patronize the one down here and expect more than the status quo.
Pricing is effected by the location and the particular franchise.
A bottle of green tea at the one down here is $1.80, the same product next door at Vons is around a $1.00. $1.60 wouldnt pay for the steam off the cup down here. You should stop by the Starbucks in Coronado and see how much coffee you get for $1.60. Its more of a condescending novelty item or fashion statement because in reality coffee costs no where near this to make. But thats OK its free enterprise, just not practical to me.
starbucks is not a franchise they are corporatly owned the closest thing to a franchise in starbucks is licensed stores such as the ones in barnesnoble. those are licensed out to other companies such as bookstores and grocerie stores and hotels. The common person even with tons of money cant set up a starbucks unless they have a hotel or a groceri store that they want to have a starbucks incorporated into it. All free standing Starbucks are Corporate stores.
I know their are some people who believe starbucks is a franchise corporation but is not what affects the price of the drinks in certain locations Is cost of buisness hawai for instance is a place where it costs more money for the same thing such as rent.
When dealing with the public it comes with the turf. Certainly not an excuse for rude people but Ive found that most of the upper class patronize the one down here and expect more than the status quo.
Pricing is effected by the location and the particular franchise.
A bottle of green tea at the one down here is $1.80, the same product next door at Vons is around a $1.00. $1.60 wouldnt pay for the steam off the cup down here. You should stop by the Starbucks in Coronado and see how much coffee you get for $1.60. Its more of a condescending novelty item or fashion statement because in reality coffee costs no where near this to make. But thats OK its free enterprise, just not practical to me.
starbucks is not a franchise they are corporatly owned the closest thing to a franchise in starbucks is licensed stores such as the ones in barnesnoble. those are licensed out to other companies such as bookstores and grocerie stores and hotels. The common person even with tons of money cant set up a starbucks unless they have a hotel or a groceri store that they want to have a starbucks incorporated into it. All free standing Starbucks are Corporate stores.
I know their are some people who believe starbucks is a franchise corporation but is not what affects the price of the drinks in certain locations Is cost of buisness hawai for instance is a place where it costs more money for the same thing such as rent.
imurnamine
Active Member
But coffee is tasty!
Gas smells good.
Oh my gaw, yesterday I was filling up my Wranlger and usually it'll click and stop when it's full. To make a long story short, it didn't.
Yay... Teenaged A.D.D.
Gas smells good.
Oh my gaw, yesterday I was filling up my Wranlger and usually it'll click and stop when it's full. To make a long story short, it didn't.
Yay... Teenaged A.D.D.
37g joe
Member
Originally Posted by Phixer
A cup of coffee is more that a gallon of gas.
:hilarious
Starbucks actually pays the coffee farmers reasonable prices for the coffee. Maybe you think they should cheat the Farmers? Also Starbucks is helping build schools, health clinics, coffee mills and other projects that benefit coffee communities.
STARBUCKS, FAIR TRADE, AND COFFEE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Starbucks and the Fair Trade movement share a common goal: to help ensure that farmers receive an equitable price for their coffee and strengthen their farms for the future.
Purchasing Fair Trade Certified™ coffee is one of a number of ways Starbucks cultivates stable relationships with farmers. Additional steps include paying substantial premiums for all coffee purchases, long term contracts and affordable credit for farmers, direct purchasing, investing in social projects in coffee communities, and C.A.F.E. Practices buying guidelines.
• Starbucks is North America’s largest purchaser of Fair Trade CertifiedTM coffee.
In fiscal 2005, Starbucks purchased 11.5 million pounds of Fair Trade Certified™ coffee, compared to 4.8 million pounds in fiscal 2004. This represents approximately 10 percent of global Fair Trade Certified™ coffee imports. In fiscal 2006, Starbucks plans to increase sales of our newly introduced Fair Trade product offerings and purchase 12 million pounds of Fair Trade Certified™ coffee.
• Starbucks sells Fair Trade Certified coffee around the world.
Starbucks is the only company licensed to sell Fair Trade Certified™ coffee in 23 countries, including Austria, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States.
• Starbucks is committed to paying equitable prices for all of our coffee. We do that to ensure that farmers make a profit and to encourage future production of high quality coffee.
Starbucks pays premium prices that are substantially over and above the prevailing commodity-grade coffee prices. In fiscal 2003, when prices for commercial-grade arabica coffee ranged from $0.55-$0.70 per pound, Starbucks paid an average of $1.20 per pound for all of our coffee. In fiscal 2005, Starbucks paid an
average price of $1.28 per pound, which was 23 percent higher than the average New York “C” market price
during the same time frame.
• Fair Trade Certified coffee is one part of a larger effort by Starbucks to be socially responsible in our relationships with coffee farmers and communities
Starbucks is committed to purchasing our coffee in an ethical and sustainable manner, regardless of labels and certifications. The Fair Trade system only certifies cooperatives of small-holder, family-owned farms, a system that currently produces about two percent of the world’s coffee supply. The majority of the high-quality coffee Starbucks purchases is grown by farmers outside this system, many of whom are small-holders. Fair Trade Certified™ coffee is one source of supply for our global coffee purchases.
• Starbucks works with several organizations to make credit available to coffee growers, which enables them to postpone selling their crops until the price is favorable.
In fiscal 2004, Starbucks committed $1million to Calvert Foundation, $2.5 million to Verde Ventures, managed by Conservation International, and $2.5 million to EcoLogic Finance for loans to coffee farmers. And additional $2.5 million was provided to EcoLogic Finance in fiscal 2005, not only to extend loans to coffee farmers but also to cocoa farmers.
• Starbucks is helping build schools, health clinics, coffee mills and other projects that benefit coffee communities.
For many years, Starbucks and a number of farms have collaborated to help improve the quality of life for farming families and their communities. Starbucks provides funding for projects by adding a “social development premium” over and above the price of coffee purchased from participating farms. The farm often matches Starbucks contribution with its own investment to support the project. In fiscal 2005, Starbucks invested $1.5 million in 40 social projects that ranged from education programs in Nicaragua to a hospital renovation in Papua New Guinea.
For more information about Starbucks sustainability practices, please review our
Corporate Social Responsibility Annual Report at www.starbucks.com/csrannualreport. Updated 3/07/06
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/Sta...20fairtrade%22
A cup of coffee is more that a gallon of gas.
Starbucks actually pays the coffee farmers reasonable prices for the coffee. Maybe you think they should cheat the Farmers? Also Starbucks is helping build schools, health clinics, coffee mills and other projects that benefit coffee communities.
STARBUCKS, FAIR TRADE, AND COFFEE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Starbucks and the Fair Trade movement share a common goal: to help ensure that farmers receive an equitable price for their coffee and strengthen their farms for the future.
Purchasing Fair Trade Certified™ coffee is one of a number of ways Starbucks cultivates stable relationships with farmers. Additional steps include paying substantial premiums for all coffee purchases, long term contracts and affordable credit for farmers, direct purchasing, investing in social projects in coffee communities, and C.A.F.E. Practices buying guidelines.
• Starbucks is North America’s largest purchaser of Fair Trade CertifiedTM coffee.
In fiscal 2005, Starbucks purchased 11.5 million pounds of Fair Trade Certified™ coffee, compared to 4.8 million pounds in fiscal 2004. This represents approximately 10 percent of global Fair Trade Certified™ coffee imports. In fiscal 2006, Starbucks plans to increase sales of our newly introduced Fair Trade product offerings and purchase 12 million pounds of Fair Trade Certified™ coffee.
• Starbucks sells Fair Trade Certified coffee around the world.
Starbucks is the only company licensed to sell Fair Trade Certified™ coffee in 23 countries, including Austria, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States.
• Starbucks is committed to paying equitable prices for all of our coffee. We do that to ensure that farmers make a profit and to encourage future production of high quality coffee.
Starbucks pays premium prices that are substantially over and above the prevailing commodity-grade coffee prices. In fiscal 2003, when prices for commercial-grade arabica coffee ranged from $0.55-$0.70 per pound, Starbucks paid an average of $1.20 per pound for all of our coffee. In fiscal 2005, Starbucks paid an
average price of $1.28 per pound, which was 23 percent higher than the average New York “C” market price
during the same time frame.
• Fair Trade Certified coffee is one part of a larger effort by Starbucks to be socially responsible in our relationships with coffee farmers and communities
Starbucks is committed to purchasing our coffee in an ethical and sustainable manner, regardless of labels and certifications. The Fair Trade system only certifies cooperatives of small-holder, family-owned farms, a system that currently produces about two percent of the world’s coffee supply. The majority of the high-quality coffee Starbucks purchases is grown by farmers outside this system, many of whom are small-holders. Fair Trade Certified™ coffee is one source of supply for our global coffee purchases.
• Starbucks works with several organizations to make credit available to coffee growers, which enables them to postpone selling their crops until the price is favorable.
In fiscal 2004, Starbucks committed $1million to Calvert Foundation, $2.5 million to Verde Ventures, managed by Conservation International, and $2.5 million to EcoLogic Finance for loans to coffee farmers. And additional $2.5 million was provided to EcoLogic Finance in fiscal 2005, not only to extend loans to coffee farmers but also to cocoa farmers.
• Starbucks is helping build schools, health clinics, coffee mills and other projects that benefit coffee communities.
For many years, Starbucks and a number of farms have collaborated to help improve the quality of life for farming families and their communities. Starbucks provides funding for projects by adding a “social development premium” over and above the price of coffee purchased from participating farms. The farm often matches Starbucks contribution with its own investment to support the project. In fiscal 2005, Starbucks invested $1.5 million in 40 social projects that ranged from education programs in Nicaragua to a hospital renovation in Papua New Guinea.
For more information about Starbucks sustainability practices, please review our
Corporate Social Responsibility Annual Report at www.starbucks.com/csrannualreport. Updated 3/07/06
http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/Sta...20fairtrade%22
37g joe
Member
Yea keep going to your Non starbucks coffee houses thats coffee farmers cant feed their children and workers at their stores dont get health benifets. Starbucks was the first corporation who offerd Medical insurancefor workers who worked 20 hours or more. This all costs money. This is why alot of baristas from other coffee copanies try to get jobs with starbucks.
imurnamine
Active Member
Long live Starbucks!
...and Java Jaay's.
<3
...and Java Jaay's.
<3
37g joe
Member
Also Starbucks and other quality Coffee providers use Aribica beans. Coffee such as the can grocerie store coffee is rubusto coffee its swill. The aribica bean costs more then rubusto bean another why ou pay more. http://www.ineedcoffee.com/02/06/arabica/
Also to all those people who dont like the extra bold coffee's starbucks offers ask for the mild coffee. also if you want to brew it your self Veona is a real nice coffee
Also to all those people who dont like the extra bold coffee's starbucks offers ask for the mild coffee. also if you want to brew it your self Veona is a real nice coffee
ruaround
Active Member
Originally Posted by shogun323
Homebrewed Starbucks every morning is the essence of life!!
i could understand why you would want to brew it at home... but come on... the essence of life!!!???
that makes me think of a song...
happy peanuts soar
over chocolate covered mountaintops
and waterfalls of caramel
prancing nougat in the meadow
sings a song of satisfaction
toooooooooooo the world... to the world...
Homebrewed Starbucks every morning is the essence of life!!
i could understand why you would want to brew it at home... but come on... the essence of life!!!???
that makes me think of a song...
happy peanuts soar
over chocolate covered mountaintops
and waterfalls of caramel
prancing nougat in the meadow
sings a song of satisfaction
toooooooooooo the world... to the world...
