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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]mydemand
2007-04-03 01:14 am UTC (link)
...I'm confused.

Don't Starbucks usually work from a base drink (espresso/Americano/whateverano) and then charge you extra based on what sort of extras you get? o_O

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-04-03 02:33 am UTC (link)
Having been a regular customer of the store for years, I'm pretty sure half the price is the royalty charge for merely occupying an area of store space.

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[info]april_hurst
2007-04-03 02:45 am UTC (link)
I just like to go for the atmosphere, and don't get ripped off too badly. I can get a grande coffee for something like two dollars, add a tiny bit of milk and sugar, and then drink it and read or write for a little while. Yeah, coffee is cheaper elsewhere, but an occasional two-dollar coffee isn't going to break my budget. Now, if it was fancypants drinks every day, that would hurt.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-04-03 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I have to give Starbucks credit - they did manage to bring back that "little coffee shop on the Eastside" feel to the mainstream. The problem is that I am quite fond of those fancypants drinks, so I must exercise self-restraint. Which is just not right. *shakes fist*

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iwanttobeasleep
2007-04-03 03:16 am UTC (link)
More or less. They have fancy pants drinks (special flavored lattes, for example) that cost more, and you can add to those, too, but if you want to consider those just add ons but stuck to the menu, you're competely right.

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[info]emiweebee
2007-04-03 04:19 am UTC (link)
Yeah.

Technically, the wank should have ended immediately when someone pointed out the "extra milk" button on the register.

But! If you're cheap/smart (depending how you look at it), there are combinations that can be made that would be cheaper than the actual drink. For instance, x number of espresso shots may be cheaper than an Americano, even though that is what you want, but you order x number of espresso shots topped off with water and bitch mightily when the register partner tries to charge you for what you're actually getting.

It's war, baby.

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