In a letter to employees last week, Starbucks’ Chief Partner Officer Sara Kelly said the union walked away from the bargaining table in the spring. Kelly said Starbucks remained ready to talk and “believes we can move quickly to a reasonable deal.” Kelly also said surveys showed that most employees like working for the company, and its barista turnover rates are half the industry average.
The easy answer is yes. First of all, the coffee really isn't good enough to warrant what they charge, abd the people that work there are over-paid under-acheivers. There are 17,00 company-owned and franchise Starbucks just in the US. In total around the world, there are 40,990 stores. And the coffe just isn't that good. WTF am I missing?
Want a good cup of Espresso you can
make at home nice and easy? Try this:
my entire adult life. It was my Mother's and my
Grandmother's go-to when they didn't want or need
to do a whole pot. Try it for yourself if you've not had it.
I gave up on $5 a cup coffee years ago. I make it at home or I do not drink it.
ReplyDeleteI make my coffee the way I like it at home. Starbucks simply burns the beans to make weak coffee darker and more bitter. News flash, Theres more caffeine in light roasts than in dark roasts including espresso. The more you roast coffee beans the more volatiles including caffeine you drive off.
ReplyDeleteI start each day with six cups of coffee. That is six times $5 or $30 per day or $ 10,950 per year.
ReplyDeleteI need food stamps!
That's a great instant coffee
ReplyDeleteSo workers at 65 of 17,186 US stores are on strike. .0038 % of their stores. Just walk across the street to one of their other 17,121 crap coffee stores that are open. Why is this even news? Really bad, really expensive coffee.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the union wants the strike more than the worker bees.
ReplyDeleteI tried a sip of my wife's Starbuck's and it was enough to tell me I never wanted to get close to that garbage ever again. I have a cheapo Mr Coffee type setup in my shop office and I buy whatever coffee is on sale and it's still far better than what is sold in the coffee shops. Not to mention what I spend on coffee in a year is likely far less than these coffee freaks spend in a week. But gotta have the fancy schmancy coffee so they can brag to their co-workers or neighbors about their great taste in coffee. Bleeech. Oh, and after a couple of those garbage coffees, my wife went back to soda pop.
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ReplyDeleteStarbucks Coffee brings back memories of standing watch onboard US Navy ships at 3:00am and having the "runner" bring you a cup of coffee from a pot that had been on the burner since 4:30pm the previous afternoon. Horrible, but it did keep you awake.
We bought a small perculator from Amazon about a year ago. The quality of the coffee has me spoiled ... I can't drink coffee from the local diner or Starbucks. Between the two of us, we make 2 or 3 pots a day. Decaf after 2pm.
ReplyDeleteLived in a commune in Baltimore in the 70's. We ran a small sandwich deli outside of Johns Hopkins University for a few years. We got a coffee company to blend and roast our idea of good coffee. Must have worked as our bottomless cup at 25 cents went fast; lots of students studying for tests and lots of hospital staff and nursing students.
ReplyDeleteMoved to Seattle in the late 80's before Starbucks became what it is now. First time I drank a cuppa Starschmucks I came up with what they should use as their motto: "We burn our beans to make you think they're better!"
Now I make mine at home often using Cowboy Kent Rollins' cowboy coffee method (see YouTube), brewing good quality beans from local stores. If I go out for coffee, I go to a small coffee house a block and a half from me where they have house roasted beans and a great atmosphere - a former many-decades old hardware store. They also do music - going tonight - and brew beer. Very nice setup for me!
If it's a neighborhood cafe with a writer in residence, cafe coffee is worth trying. (Especially if I am the writer!) If it's Starbucks and it's not THE Starbucks on Dupont Circle...yes, instant in the microwave is just as caffeinated.
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