Reply to why does anyone not use the Starbucks app

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "why does anyone not use the Starbucks app"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Some of you are ridiculous.

I go to Starbucks because it's cheaper. I will go to one of the nicer spots with better food and drinks sometimes, but often I just need a place to camp and work for an hour or two in order to get out of my house or between meetings or client visits (I own my own business). I go to Starbucks because it's predictable and affordable and if I use the app I regularly get free drinks or pastries there. Since I'm mostly using it as a mobile office, not a source of the best beverage I've ever had, this works fine.

Also I'm more of tea drinker than a coffee drinker. The tea at Starbucks is okay (they serve Harney & Sons which is actually decent quality) and reasonably priced. I cannot tell you how many times I've gone into some bespoke coffee shop and ordered tea and been handed either bagged tea and a cup of hot water ("here make this") or a weak ass tea and then been charged like $6. Eff off -- that is offensive. Even at places who will make a bespoke london fog with loose team, it's regularly two weak with the wrong proportion of ingredients (hello Tatte).

Anyway, I always roll my eyes so hard at people who get snooty about Starbucks but then go to these other chains that are every bit as corporate but hide it behind "French" or "Farmstyle" decor and absurd prices. The last time I was in a Maman the AC was out and it was like 100 degrees inside and all the tables were dirty. Tatte has great pastries but the drinks or only okay.

Anyway I agree OP -- if you are going to submit to the intentionally corporate, assembly-line experience of Starbucks (which is a perfectly fine thing to do, get off your high horses), you might as well do it the cheap and efficient way and use the app.

Obviously if you would never deign to go in a Starbucks because it offends your self-conception as a discerning consumer of bespoke coffee drinks, no one would expect you to use the app to NOT order anything there. Duh.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics