Starbucks used to be the shit. We'd look forward to it every time we visited Seattle. Now it's basically a multinational fast food chain, obviously. Damned shame...

I read "multidimensional". I think that would actually be more accurate!

Lol. Bewbz

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It still is, their cold brew coffee is better than anyone’s.

Look into their sourcing and labor practices. Best value in over-roasted coffee and diabetic shakes.

Starbucks lost its way back around 2000, when they expanded past their regional boundaries yet maintining quality control from Seattle.

I’m sure they have better tasting Iced Coffee and Cold brew. They have been innovators of many popular coffee drinks. They are consistent there.

Good coffee, but how do they produce it ruins it for me.

Seriously, Google the origin of the Starbucks logo. Lifted from some kinky bored pirate drawings

They look like anchormen. Jim Gardner should be in the pic along with Ron Burgundy.

Shit company. Shit coffee. So many better and less-expensive choices out there.

That’s probably the original store at Pikes Place.

Flash Gordon

We’re ready to believe you!

Staebucks is 💩

Where does the name come from? Never found that out.

My wife can't drive by a damn Starbucks without stopping

Yeah MAXWELL HOUSE

Moby Dick. The cook on the ship was named Starbuck and he apparently made good coffee.

The story…guy worked at coffee roaster goes on vacation to Italy and sees these cafes serving coffee with syrups and steamed frothed milk. Comes back and pitches the idea to his boss. Gets rejected. Quits and starts his own business. Gets so successful he ends up buying out the roaster that had rejected his idea. Twenty years later you could go to the most remote part of Washington and find a latte.

Erp, but then, then fucking Morty ruined for everyone when he... he... erp... had to be a alittle pervert in the universe where the Starbucks Mermaid is a real... a real chick. Way to go, Morty

try Peet’s

Baldwin looks like he's thinking: "this is going to go south and I'm going to be living in a van down by the river."

I would offer my daughters Starbucks in the cold mornings for chocolate. I noticed a vanilla creme brulee latte on ad and I decided to try it. I was instantly hooked. I'm not a coffee enthusiast but DAMN! I started out with a small and now get a large everytime! Got me hooked like the that mermaid!

Oh shit I never knew that. Thank you!

You need to try more coffee.

Continually baffles me. Their coffee is burnt garbage. The only people who actually like Starbucks order triple venti whipped cream surprises with caramel and four shots of vanilla. Of course that tastes “good”.

I can't find the word to say how boring NOT cool they are.

The further away you travel from Seattle, the more the quality of Starbucks drops. In Seattle you’re still arguably drinking coffee, by the time you reach London or Budapest it’s burnt, bitter sewer water strained through a homeless man’s sock

Have to partially disagree. I’ve yet to find a more consistently delightful cup of coffee on the go than my pour over venti blonde roast. It’s fantastic.

😫 pulling people in one by one.

Such as?

Cool, I’ll look into it

Gerry doesn't even like coffee.

That's where the first line of the book comes from.

Barista: Whats the name?"

Customer: "Call me Ishmael."

Barista: "Half decaf tall Moche latte for Ishmael!"

Impossible to maintain deep quality at global scale. There’s just no way.