Dragonlady
Designing Woman
Starbucks should stick to making and selling coffee and never mind trying be anything but a coffee shop.
They aren't even much of a coffee shop anymore. They are basically bad a fast food place that happens to sell coffee.
Well I know one thing.
Their coffee sucks.
Starbucks is coffee for people who don't like coffee. Drown out the coffee with so much milk and sugar you can't tell what you're drinking anymore. They also purposely burn most of their coffee beans during roasting to cover up the fact that they buy the cheapest and lowest quality beans out there, and because it's easier and cheaper to mass produce consistently over roasted beans.
Starbucks coffee tastes like something left in the pot all night. Vile!
My preference for chain store coffee is Second Cup or Timothy’s. But if I want really good coffee, I go to local one-off coffee shops.