Here’s the thing, Starbucks. You can’t go implementing ridiculous policies that put the words “slow down” and “making coffee” in the same sentence. Not when it means the line is 20+ people deep during the morning rush.
Exhibit A: This morning’s line (worth noting that I took this photo from an identically long line at the other cash register). It’s a bad picture, I know — it’s from my Blackberry, and it’s blurred probably because my uncaffeinated hands were trembling. But you get the idea. This is clearly not a photography blog.
Read about the Starbucks nonsense here.
Yeah, it’s my own fault that I let you sucker me into waiting 10 minutes every morning for the privilege of paying you $4 for a coffee — we all have our vices. And I need the caffeine in ways you probably spell out in your core business model, so I keep coming back. I come back even though you wrap lines around like an amusement park ride every morning. I come back even when you screw up my $4 drink.
But now, this. It won’t do. Please work it out. I don’t know how, but I do know that it involves water and milk and steam and coffee beans — not aerodyanmics or Middle Eastern politics. Surely you can find a way to keep the caffeine flowing. Quickly.
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