I drink black coffee only and their black coffee tastes like shit. Always burned. No wonder why people fill it up with all kinds of sugars and creamers. That shit is fucking gross, and they charge like $3 for a small cup of it. Went a couple of times there because I had to and just never going back there.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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My coffee experience is fine thank you. Every morning I boil the kettle, hand crank the grinder while it’s heating. Combine in the French press, wait a minute, stir, wait 4-5 more, press and pour into my mug.
It’s a great morning routine, less than 10 minutes, cheap and results in a great cup. I have no interest in the coffee flavored milkshakes they serve so why would I ever set foot in a coffee shop?
So they think I want a 9$ premium experience with a Batista who the mselves could likely not afford that experience. Yuck.
Same logic for using drugs.
“I can’t afford anything actually nice but I do have 20 bucks.”
Honestly there is a lot more value in a 20 sack though.
a great moment with a barista.
Hahaha. Good one. Literally a great reason to buy independent.
It's worse than that. Obviously he's not talking about the coffee. He doesn't even paint it as good-quality coffee. He's saying people go for the experience of enjoying the coffee in a pleasant environment. He actually believes people go to Starbucks because they like being at Starbucks.
That used to be their whole shtick, the third place experience. They wanted people to treat Starbucks as where they go when they want to relax or meet with friends, a place outside of their home and work, where the baristas knew their names and would chat and make them feel welcome. Especially a lot of older folks liked that, and would make it part of their routine. Starbucks threw that all away when they went to prioritising drive thru and mobile order/pay systems. It's a shareholder business and this is capitalism. It's either neverending growth or death.
I don’t even think he’s wrong
Thanks for making that a direct file to a video.
The labor for serving the cup alone is worth $5 alone then the labor to cut the beens is another $5 then the labor to run the factory that's another $5 then the labor to drive the truck that's another $5 that's a $20 cup if we weren't using slave labor.
What the fuck is premium about Starbucks?
It's seen as a premium or at least different experience by some people here because you generally gotta sit on a boat for 16 hours to get to Starbucks (or now I think you can also get it on the boat to Stockholm or Helsinki, at some point you actually had to go to Stockholm). But also the people who see it as a premium experience normally just drink coffee at home, or from a crappy machine at work, or grab one from a gas station (which is already better than what most people make at home. I mean average people, not coffee fans. Coffee is just a tool for most). Not at a nice cafe here in Estonia. Anyone who does that probably doesn't see Tarbrush as a premium place.
The price
IDGAF. Why are you buying Starbucks anyway, their coffee is just flavoured, caffeinated sugar water. I don't see a big deal with $9 for a cup of piss. Rich people will pay even more if you tell them some lies about the water being shipped from the Himalayan mountains to make the coffee. Charge them whatever the fuck you want. Rich people ripping off rich people is a win win.
Are people really so addicted to Starbucks that this is a big deal? And there's no better and cheaper coffee?
I mean, let's be real, how much does a banana even cost Michael? Twelve dollars?
Well it's not $10. Hah! You could excuse any price like that, "well it's not $1 more than the currently listed price" What a deal!!!
They need some way to pay for the year he commuted to Seattle by private jet.
Also, he is the asshole who said to keep raising the prices at Chipotle.
Fuck him. I will drink Folgers (and I do) before I'll drink your shit.
I work an a facility next to a few fast food joints, a Japanese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, and a Chipotle. Pretty much the only restaurant we don't order from is Chipotle.
... Chipotle is real restaurant prices for a fastfood experience.
A $96-million dollar douche defends a $9 cup of coffee
This guy is delusional, saying a $9 cup of coffee is affordable has "it's one banana, Michael" energy.
He’s not saying it’s affordable though. He just said that it’s 9 bucks and we have to make that be worth it
A barista would need to serve like 2 coffees to cover their wage
The coffee sucks, the tables are all filled or dirty and sticky, the outside seating is in a parking lot, baking in the sun, the drive through is backed up to the interstate, the food is re-heated trash that costs a fortune, the atmosphere is boring factory produced trash, and the wifi is so slow it's like it doesn't exist.
Why. Why on earth would I go to starbucks
People are absolute zombies for it. In the airport, there’s always a line into the concourse for that overpriced burnt shit. There are other coffee and bagel and donut shops mere steps away whose coffee is cheaper and better.
I was in fucking midtown manhattan last week, with amazing coffee shops on every block. Still a line out the door at Starbucks. Like what the fuck, people.
And yet they are still making loads of money. Mind you I'd kina hope they start to die so I can get one of their machines for home from liquidation auction.
They're making so much money that they're still opening Starbuckses across the street from Startbuckses. Make it make sense.
The line must go up
this has the McDonald's CEO eating vibes all over again.
It's sad to think there are people in the world that think Starbucks coffee is nice.
These people mostly like star bucks sugar syrup and pretend it's coffee that they are after
The original Starbucks was pretty good and even for a while after they started the franchise they were still a bit above average quality. They're crap now, but that was a slow decline over the last decade. So they can coast on the reputation the original built and rely on their current customers either not ever having had good coffee or not noticing the slow incremental decline.
It's "coffee" for people who don't really like coffee and want to drink something warm with cream, sugary syrup and artificial flavoring.
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I'm in India, and when I was in college, first Starbucks in the city was opened and a few of my friends including me wanted to try it. We all spent 500-600 INR ($4-5) which was a lot. After taking the first sip, we all came to the conclusion that the coffee sold at the college canteen for ₹20 was better than this overpriced slop.
I make coffee at my home for less than a dollar and I love the taste and I love the experience.
If he loves this "experience", good for him. Who cares...
Starbucks coffee is shite. The main reason many people go there is because of the image of status symbol, especially in many parts of the world. The chain also ruffled feathers here in Ireland for setting up shop everywhere, driving down prices of their coffee to force local cafés to close. Then, when local competitions are gone, Starbucks raise prices to extortionate level. For these reasons, I boycott Starbucks. Thankfully, what Starbucks did in Ireland was nipped in the bud, locals prefer their local cafés.
Besides, countries with older café culture rail stronger on the overgrowth of big coffee chains like Starbucks. For example, the coffee chain in Australia never became popular enough. Because Australians see cafe culture as being more community based, where they chat to neighbours and baristas, a habit picked up from Greek immigrants to Australia long before coffee chains took the world by storm.
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