b/c the person stands behind the bar and makes the espresso. s/he does not come out and serve tables.
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In my opinion, Starbucks is crap. I went in there for the first time (that I can recall, anyways) and I was not impressed. Plus, I am not kidding when I say I was fairly certain I might start punching the other customers. But then, I'm not that into fancy coffee drinks.
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It's not English, it's American.
What tea with milk, or walking to the bar in pubs?
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good service = hand pulled pint
Good service is like in my local in Ankarawhere he starts pulling my pint* as I walk in the door, its on the table about the same time as I sit down, and he starts pulling the next one when he knows I want it.
Devrim
*Actually, it is not a pint . It is an Arjentin, which is 700ml.
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What tea with milk,
Calling tea with milk chai latte. Apparently it's spiced tea, with sugar, milk steamed from an espresso machine. That's like calling a frappuccino coffee. I think it'd be more precise to call it "a tea drink".
In Japan they have "Royal Milk Tea" - which is tea made with milk (i.e. no water, just milk and a tea bag). I haven't yet worked out whether that was imported, or someone just heard "tea made wth milk?" during the Meiji restoration and that was the result. It's actually not bad if it's made for you (not like tea obviously, like a savoury hot chocolate), but the canned stuff in vending machines is wrong.
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Good service is like in my local in Ankarawhere he starts pulling my pint as I walk in the door, its on the table about the same time as I sit down, and he starts pulling the next one when he knows I want it.
There's a pub in London Bridge I used to go to regularly where the landlord did that, although I'd still have to walk to the bar obviously.
David in Atlanta wrote:
I'll drink it if there's nothing else around or if a barista gives me a pound bag, but starbucks makes crap coffee. Poor labor relations and awful coffee.
I actually have a theory that they purposefully sell bad coffee so that people will buy the espresso drinks. Some of the coffee they sell by the pound is ok, but the stuff they usually brew is really bad.
During my training i was told "many people think starbucks burns the coffee by roasting it too much, but actually, it's just right." This didn't make sense until later when a manager told me they make $1 on every coffee but 2$ or more on every espresso drink.
A barista told me once that there's some substance they put in drinks, I think it might be the mocha flavoring. In the spot in the store where the vat was kept the bit of floor that the stuff regularly leaked onto was pitted, like the stuff was eating away at the floor.
Also, I object to Thugarchist being banned. That will only result in a samizdat Thugarchist. Instead all copies of Thugarchist must be rounded up and burnt in a heap.
OliverTwister wrote:
I actually have a theory that they purposefully sell bad coffee so that people will buy the espresso drinks. Some of the coffee they sell by the pound is ok, but the stuff they usually brew is really bad.During my training i was told "many people think starbucks burns the coffee by roasting it too much, but actually, it's just right." This didn't make sense until later when a manager told me they make $1 on every coffee but 2$ or more on every espresso drink.
Yeah, but the espresso drinks taste burnt too! Actually, I just googled "taste burnt" and half the hits on the first page was about Starbucks.
cafe @ are now just another chain who have constructed an company identity around being local and ethical - it is not a reality just a constructed image.
same old story - when the £ come in they become the beast they set out to oppose.
disclaimer -i am involved in the london coffee scene & am an active anarchist.
Why not waiter/waitress?
Devrim