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Starbucks admits that cutting staff has backfired and now plans to hire more baristas
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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Can Starbucks please die already?
I say this as a native Seattleite, who used to love going to actual coffee shops, comfy hangout all day and study or do work on a laptop... type coffee shops...
Untill Starbucks appropriated that aesthetic, and then turned into a corporate fast food franchise, and drove basically every actual independent coffee nook out of business.
Fuck Starbucks, fuck everyone who thinks their coffee flavored milkshakes are coffee.
... I will die on this hill.
When I was becoming a coffee fan/snob a decade ago, I'd occasionally get gifted bags of Starbucks beans. Or worse, grounds. Ugh.
I eventually end up using it but it's never good. Even my wife agrees now, although she still drinks McDonald's iced coffee without sugar regularly.
I used to work at McDonald's nearly 20 years ago and I would huff the grounds every time I filled the coffee machine. I'm not a coffee snob so feel free to disregard my opinion but that stuff ain't bad, especially iced and lightly sweetened.
That's what I was implying, (poorly) that their coffee isn't half bad, and preferable over Starbucks to me.
But then when I make myself coffee it's four to six shots of espresso with ice and half and half.
Starbucks is a waste of perfectly good coffee beans.
The only time I get Starbucks is when I am in a new city and busy, like for work. Since it is a chain I can know that I will get the exact same thing in the exact same quality essentially anywhere in the country.
To me it's a really nice safety net if im stressed or anxious and far from home and my local coffee shops.