Mildly Infuriating

I have friends who are super into roasting their own beans and curated coffee experiences...

Starbucks is far and away from being premium or even...good. They're all marketing and accessibility, not quality.

I mean, let's be real, how much does a banana even cost Michael? Twelve dollars?

this has the McDonald's CEO eating vibes all over again.

I got an espresso machine a few years ago and learned to make a proper latte with it. At this point, a $9 cup of charry sugar water made by a teenager in a fast food restaurant doesn’t really appeal to me.

I mean, I am relatively ok paid, but $9 would be about 1-1.5 hours of my wage before tax. If I want to live in a both economy and ecology wise manner, I had calculated it to a cup of $4 coffee every two weeks, IF I don’t eat out and instead use frozen home made lunch boxes every work day.

If I can skip a coffee a week and instead donate to a charity or local homeless person of my choice. Or save my money for the LGTBQ+ scouts. That’s way better.

Haven’t had Starbucks in over a year, maybe three, the coffee wasn’t worthwhile of the wait or money and the last time the barista gave me oat milk instead of almond. No faults to the barista, I think the chain stresses them out.

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?

Labeling Starbucks coffee as a premium experience is a bold statement. Did he never drank real coffee? "Oh but it's premium because our coffee tastes so bad, we just add a lot of sugar and flavors to it so you won't notice."

I would actually pay $9 for the premium experience of seeing this CEO getting a cup of boiling hot coffee in his face.

The average coffee drinker doesn’t buy coffee to get a great seat and have a moment with a barista lol. They want to get their coffee as fast as possible and be out of there as quick as possible. Just like the average office worker doesn’t take a private jet to get to work. I guess that’s where his logic is coming from. He spends the fuel and CO2 not for the commute, but for the great legroom and moment with the stewardess.

It's not even good coffee...

I'm surprised they let him in front of a camera again after the Chipotle backlash.

Income cohort...

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.

Damn I haven't had Starbucks in like 10 years because the hit or miss quality wasn't worth <$5, people are paying that much now?

But how much is the avocado toast? A low toast cost would offset a high coffee price.

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.

He looks like someone that would make me cross the street if he was on the same side as me while I'm walking my fur baby. Rex don't need to smell that shit.

Not actually Starbucks related but the other day I wanted a coffee so I bought a $5 48oz bottle of cold brew at the grocery store and helped myself to a courtesy cup, lid, ice and straw so I could drink it right away. So for the same price as probably a 16oz cold brew I got that and the remaining ~3/4 of the bottle to take home.

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He gets away with this just fine.

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.

LOL, I buy an entire pound of green coffee beans for $9 or less, roast them, and then I've got coffee for like 2 weeks.

Now defend a decline in sales to your board.