starbucks

The streptomycin shot is extra

adamg — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:12:42 -0400

Alicia goes down to the Quincy Market Starbucks with a gift card, buys one of its new fruity Vivanno drinks, reports:

... The smoothie had a unique taste to it; it definitely didn't taste like oranges, mangoes and/or bananas, but it was sweet and I became slightly nostalgic drinking it. About halfway through the drink, I realized what it tasted exactly like: amoxicillin! Amoxicillin is the pink bubblegum flavored medicine I used to take for ear infections, and it was delicious (for a medicine.) I'm not sure if drinking Vivannos will cure a bacterial infection, but they sure taste like they will.

How Starbucks is meeting the Dunkin' Donuts challenge head on

adamg — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:28:48 -0400

By developing a line of tasteless breakfast sandwiches that drip grease on your shirt - but still with that classic Starbucks faux-European name - Brian Kane reports:

... Even though their turbo oven is supposed to make things nice and toasty, this sucker was like half-cooked pie dough when I got it — not firm enough to retain its shape when picked up, so that it sort of drooped on my fingers like Silly Putty, but just firm enough to start to crumble when I tried to fold it up a bit. It was also almost completely devoid of any discernible flavor. ...

Two local stores that could use courses in customer relations

adamg — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:09:40 -0400

Cleary Squared goes to the new Staples in Roslindale Square, reports that if it wants to retain any customers on the weekends, it's going to have to instill some pride in the sullen, put-upon teens apparently running the place on Saturdays and Sundays.

Dan Miller reports he only goes to the School Street Starbucks because he needs his morning coffee, not because he enjoys "being held hostage by the designated drink maker, who thinks he's Tom Cruise in 'Cocktail.'"

Quick-thinking baristas rescue kidnap victim

Ron Newman — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:06:04 -0400

Last Friday at the Memorial Drive Starbucks in Cambridge.

Getting his buzz on

adamg — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:36:49 -0400

The Missus reports the guy behind her today at Starbucks ordered his "usual" - six shots of espresso with "a little bit of ice."

Something you'd never see Dunkin' Donuts drinkers do

adamg — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:59:22 -0400

Petition to try to convince Starbucks to close the Starbucks on Centre Street in Newton Center instead of the one in the Union Street train station:

Mr. Shultz, please be advised that I will NEVER spend a dollar at the Center Street location, nor any other Starbucks for that matter. There is a Peets Coffee and Tea location in Newton Center as well, and they will be getting my daily business going forward if you proceed with this closing. ...

Via The Missus, who writes people go to Starbucks for the ambiance, not the awful coffee and stale pastry.

Massachusetts not underperforming

adamg — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:26:05 -0400

At least, when it comes to Starbucks outlets.

A tale of two Starbucks

adamg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:44:23 -0400

Cosmo Catalano explains why the Starbucks on Church Street in Harvard Square sucks while the one on Newbury Street in the Back Bay between Dartmouth and Exeter is just divine. It's all in the baristas they hire.

Giving Starbucks up cold turkey

adamg — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:43 -0400

Theresa has enough of "corporate coffee" and so tries out locally owned shops in Newtonville.

Some things are just not allowed at 8:30 in the morning at a Starbucks

adamg — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:25:41 -0400

In particular, wearing a gold lame sweater, stirrup pants, and ankle-high patent leather stilettos as you practice a salsa dance.