If you’ve gone into a coffee shop and tried to order a drip coffee, you might have been a bit shocked to see how much it cost you. To help out with this, Starbucks will begin selling “short” cups of brewed coffee for $1 with free refills in their test market of Seattle. If that goes well, expect it to be expanded to other parts of the country.
I wonder if those $1 coffees will taste burnt or watered down?
In other Starbucks news they have also announced that they will stop selling warm breakfast sandwiches by the end of the year, saying that serving sandwiches got in the way of employees’ “ability to make the perfect shot of espresso.”
So is that why every barista at every Starbucks I’ve been to makes my favorite espresso drink a little differently? Because they’re preoccupied with the thought of possibly having to use a microwave?
Maybe those are two separate issues: fear of microwaving sandwiches, and poor, inconsistent training?
Do I sound bitter?
If you work at Starbucks or know someone who does I don’t mean to offend, but if I trade you some of my money for a drink you are selling and I like it, can you please make it that way again? And if I travel around and get the exact same drink at a different Starbucks location, shouldn’t it taste the same?
[Via Consumerist]
Filed under: food & drink | Tagged: breakfast, coffee, starbucks
