Comments on: I mock you with my macchiato pants http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/19/i-mock-you-with-my-macchiato-pants/ Dada, bring my beer in the living room Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:53:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jared http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/02/19/i-mock-you-with-my-macchiato-pants/#comment-205 jared Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:49:20 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/?p=120#comment-205 <p>having worked for starbucks in the past, i agree with you across the board here. i worked in a indie coffee house before starbucks, so i made the real deal macchiatos, and knew when i went to starbucks that what i was making bore no real resemblance whatsoever. i also agree that starbucks puts some shops out of business -- the one i worked at, for instance (nearby starbucks, among a variety of other factors). and i also agree that new ones spring up from starbucks -- i have my own fantasies that run parallel to your predictions.</p> <p>also, i'd like to note that starbucks owns seattles best, and has for atleast a few years. since the buy-out, they have systematically altered seattle's best's menu to be more similar to starbucks -- probably to help with the illusion among mainstream, busy-bee coffee drinkers that the way starbucks does it is "right", if only because another fairly big chain in seattle does it that way, too.</p> having worked for starbucks in the past, i agree with you across the board here. i worked in a indie coffee house before starbucks, so i made the real deal macchiatos, and knew when i went to starbucks that what i was making bore no real resemblance whatsoever. i also agree that starbucks puts some shops out of business — the one i worked at, for instance (nearby starbucks, among a variety of other factors). and i also agree that new ones spring up from starbucks — i have my own fantasies that run parallel to your predictions.

also, i’d like to note that starbucks owns seattles best, and has for atleast a few years. since the buy-out, they have systematically altered seattle’s best’s menu to be more similar to starbucks — probably to help with the illusion among mainstream, busy-bee coffee drinkers that the way starbucks does it is “right”, if only because another fairly big chain in seattle does it that way, too.

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