At the end of March, there were 16,226 Starbucks stores around the world. The company operates 7,257 of those stores in the U.S.
600 is nothing if they have over 16 000 stores in U.S.
600 is nothing if they have over 16 000 stores in U.S.
I can tell the difference between Crisp flavours. So fuck you.
#rekt
Tenses? Whatever.RDMC wrote:
Wallpaper wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
and tThey still wdon't know how to string a grammatically correct sentence together.
Howard Schultz took a temporary leave from Starbucks, and during that leave whoever was left in charge started having the stores use pre-packaged coffee instead of fresh ground, which affected taste. I think they even started skimping on shots in certain sizes. Now, apparently Schultz is having the company re-focus on quality.
Note: this is just when I hear from my coffee addicted family and friends. I dont drink coffee, so I dont know about the quality of it dropping in the past few years being totally true or not.
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I understand that this may be out of place in EE but... source? You can't just make claims and expect everyone to believe you.oChaos.Haze wrote:
I understand that. I am saying that all the coffee that MOST people drink come from ONE bean. But they make the mistake in thinking the things put in after the bean change the coffee. They don't. They just hide the shitty taste. Starbucks has so many different flavors, yet they all come from one kind of bean. They even fool you by saying where it was grown. Their latin american beans? Coffee Arabica. Their african beans? Coffee Arabica.chittydog wrote:
You don't need to fight just because oChaos can't taste the difference between different types of coffee. Everyone's tastes are different and some people are more sensitive to some tastes than others. Also, some things, like coffee, require some familiarity to understand the differences. It took me a long time to be able to taste the difference between different types of wine.
oChaos, you're right in saying some coffee tastes better "in opinion", but you're wrong in saying that it doesn't taste different. Different types of beans make different types of coffee regardless of what you add later.
Their arabic beans? Coffee Arabica.
Some advice I got that was beautiful when I was younger: An Acquired Taste is just you fooling yourself from believing it tastes like shit.
And whether you are right or not, as someone who would consider themselves somewhat of a "coffee connoisseur" (lol) Starbucks really is one of the best for beans.
Yeah, summat called 'Future tense'...Wallpaper wrote:
Tenses? Whatever.RDMC wrote:
Wallpaper wrote:
Howard Schultz took a temporary leave from Starbucks, and during that leave whoever was left in charge started having the stores use pre-packaged coffee instead of fresh ground, which affected taste. I think they even started skimping on shots in certain sizes. Now, apparently Schultz is having the company re-focus on quality.
Note: this is just when I hear from my coffee addicted family and friends. I dont drink coffee, so I dont know about the quality of it dropping in the past few years being totally true or not.
Anyhoo, to get back on topic - it's always the same, company starts out with grade-a product, gets big, management changes, quality of product drops and then they start losing customers and wondering wth went wrong...
And I thought I was a bit pessimisticScorpion0x17 wrote:
it's always the same, company starts out with grade-a product, gets big, management changes, quality of product drops and then they start losing customers and wondering wth went wrong...
You call it pessimism, I call it realism.kylef wrote:
And I thought I was a bit pessimisticScorpion0x17 wrote:
it's always the same, company starts out with grade-a product, gets big, management changes, quality of product drops and then they start losing customers and wondering wth went wrong...
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OH NOES! Without a coffee fix some soccer moms will be on suicide watch!