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Starbucks Breakfast: Doomed from the Get Go

This is hands down, one of the dumbest articles I have EVER read. If you want to be serious about what you eat, you are NOT going to go to Starbucks. Of course their quality is not good! Their coffee is great because it's convenient and quick, not because it's quality. Find something better to criticize. Criticizing ANYTHING at Starbucks is like shooting fish in a barrel.

dhathaway at 6:21PM on 02/17/08

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Starbucks Breakfast: Doomed from the Get Go

This is hands down, one of the dumbest articles I have EVER read. If you want to be serious about what you eat, you are NOT going to go to Starbucks. Of course their quality is not good! Their coffee is great because it's convenient and quick, not because it's quality. Find something better to criticize. Criticizing ANYTHING at Starbucks is like shooting fish in a barrel.

dhathaway at 6:21PM on 02/17/08

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Starbucks Breakfast: Doomed from the Get Go

dhathaway wrote:
"This is hands down, one of the dumbest articles I have EVER read. If you want to be serious about what you eat, you are NOT going to go to Starbucks."

I think you more or less hit the nail on the head. If you wanted good food, you would not go to Starbucks. If you wanted absolute, top of the line, gourmet coffee, you would not go to Starbucks, you would go to some indy specialty cafe. Their baked goods are also nothing special at all, boring, and quite mundane.

However, Starbucks are literally everywhere, which makes them very convenient to patronize, and their coffee is strong, fairly consistent, and overall, pretty darn good. I drink my coffee black, so I need something decent tasting.

at7000 at 1:33PM on 07/06/08

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Starbucks Breakfast: Doomed from the Get Go

I'm not sure where I fit in as a Stabucks customer. In a perfect world, where I had lots of time, I doubt I would ever set foot in a Starbucks. I prefer making good coffee at home and I rarely drink coffee after 3:00pm.

Yes, you can get better coffee, but Starbucks is predictable and extremely convenient to my work office. Their "Frankenfood Egg Sandwiches" are pretty terrible, but guess what? They are also very convenient for people on the move and quickly get some grease, calories and sodium into your system. I think there are basically two types of Starbucks customers, corporate slaves like me, who just need a strong coffee fix during the day, don't care too much about the prices, don't care that "Mo's Coffee has ten times better coffee," but it is 12 blocks away, and just care about speed, caffeine, and convenience.

The other type Starbucks customer, seems to have all the time in the world, they sit there, read papers, play with laptops, chat with friends, etc..

My guess is there reasons for patronizing Starbucks is much the same though, convenience and predictability.

at7000 at 1:24PM on 07/06/08

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