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El Juno ([info]eljuno) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-04-02 13:57:00


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If milk is rape, does that make this prostitution?
The question:

Is it fair/right for a customer to order what we, at my store, call a "ghetto-latte"?

The "ghetto-latte" is ordering any size Iced Americano, with no water and half ice (This lady's drink is an Iced Venti, no water, half ice, Americano). She then takes the drink and goes to the condiments bar and adds her own half and half.


Seems reasonably simple, right?

Not something you'd expect to cause, say, a three-month, several-hundred comment long flamewar which would eventually get heated enough that comments would be closed?

Apparently, none of us know Starbucks that well.


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[info]emiweebee
2007-04-02 06:21 pm UTC (link)
The other day I had a woman come in and ask us what the closest thing to regular coffee we had was. I stared at her really hard for a minute before finally, with a total O_o look on my face, saying "...Regular coffee." She was shocked, I tell you, to find out Starbucks does, in fact, sell coffee.

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-04-02 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I get that question at work all of the time. It's usually followed by "do you have cream?" I wonder where they get the idea that a coffeeshop wouldn't have these things, honestly.

(During a morning shift, I can sell 100 cups of drip coffee.)

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-04-03 04:50 am UTC (link)
Do people not bother to look at the menu board, you know, the part that has the coffee-of-the-day and such? Or are they just too far into their "I'm too cool for Starbucks" to think that a coffeeshop probably does, in fact, sell plain drip coffee.

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[info]emiweebee
2007-04-03 05:01 am UTC (link)
Oh, yeah, the way too coolers. Nothing makes my day more than someone coming in with an attitude, an "I don't speak Starbucks" and a bitchy, displeased demeanor...and yet you buy my coffee.

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[info]rimrunner
2007-04-04 02:23 am UTC (link)
I dunno, there are plenty of coffee shops in Seattle that don't. They have an espresso machine, but no drip maker.

I also discovered in Budapest that a lot of coffee places there had espresso and espresso-based beverages, but nothing else. Drip coffee was called "American" and a lot of places didn't think it was worth the effort.

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