Starbucks is: expensive. complicated coffee-related or coffee-adjacent well marketed.
It can be a good place to sit (some have comfy chairs) and "free" wifi used to be a good thing (with modern mobile data plans, becoming irrelevant)
Coffee from a proper machine, a good barista, and made with proper roasted beans and good milk (or milk substitute) is completely different - but Australian Starbucks can make a drinkable version of an Australian latte.
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday January 27 2022, @01:52AM (1 child)
Starbucks is:
expensive.
complicated
coffee-related or coffee-adjacent
well marketed.
It can be a good place to sit (some have comfy chairs) and "free" wifi used to be a good thing (with modern mobile data plans, becoming irrelevant)
Coffee from a proper machine, a good barista, and made with proper roasted beans and good milk (or milk substitute) is completely different - but Australian Starbucks can make a drinkable version of an Australian latte.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Thursday January 27 2022, @02:34PM
So, . . . uh, like, it's the perfect place for Apple users.
Universal health care is so complex that only 32 of 33 developed nations have found a way to make it work.