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ORIGINAL: ominousdominus

Prolific Profile Perver

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Just carry a small handy flask of Bailey's around with you, pour it in any coffee, anywhere, et voilà!

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ORIGINAL: SteelofUtah

During Highschool I worked as a Barista for a few Bohemian Cafe's managed a few and then took a Job with Jitters where The owner saw my love for coffee and cultivated it.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Now, it would depend on what kind of gas you are talking about.

I mean, you can run Blue Ridge sippin whiskey in a car with no real problems, and you can drink the stuff...

Not to mention you can use Blue Ridge Sippin whiskey to remove paint, disinfect a wound, start a fire (a rather large fire) if'n you aint careful, get bears drunk with it, get your teachers drunk with it (requires dosing the coffee) and finally it will take stains out of your shirts.

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Education will tell you that the worst thing to happen to the coffee drinkers Palate is STARBUCKS, they RUINED coffee and the miseducated people, case in point the have a drink they call a Caramel Machiado which is actually just a Caramel Latte so when I would have someone order a Machiado I would wake them one which is actually a lightly Cremed Cappuccino with a shot of caramel. They were expecting a big drink cause that is what they get at starbucks however that isn't what they ordered they ordered a Machiado.

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

After over-saturating the market, Starbucks now has to pull back big time.
 
"Starbucks has a bitter plan"


By Scott Moritz
 
"Starbucks (SBUX) can’t catch a break. The coffee retailer says it will close 600 stores, about 8.5% of its 7,100 total stores, an expansion of the 100-store closing target it had previously announced.

The Seattle coffee chain has been feeling the pinch of a tightening economy. In February, the company fired 600 employees and conducted a in-store retraining program to try and revive the Starbuck Experience, as CEO Howard Schultz has called it.

Starbucks says it is trying to cull unprofitable stores from the franchise and expects to book $200 million of asset write-offs in the third quarter related to the closings. Starbucks shares are down 40% over the past year." 
http://dailybriefing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/01/starbucks-has-a-bitter-plan/

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ORIGINAL: raaaaawr

The caramel macchiato is actually a vanilla latte, marked with the shots and caramel sauce. Macchiato just means marked. Starbucks has the traditional espresso macchiato also, which is an espresso shot(s) "marked" with foam.

I should probably throw in that I am a Starbucks barista. I don't believe the company is saintly, by any means. I do appreciate the emphasis on taking care of their partners (employees). I have medical and dental insurance, stock options, 401k, and tuition reimbursement available to myself while only needing to work 20 hours a week. As a full time student, that's about all I can manage to work. They will actually buy stock for me after I've been there for a year, and after five years I can sell it and receive 100% of the profit without ever putting a dime of my own in. I'm 21, and I haven't had insurance in a *very* long time, so that's a huge deal for me too. The amazing benefits do add to the cost of the product. It's impressive that once the company started to slip none of our benefits were cut. Yes, people are losing jobs now but most will get transfers. The stores that are closing are the ones that aren't pulling enough profit, and are mostly within a few blocks of other more profitable stores. These stores are probably going to get a jump in business and will be able to take on more partners. The partners that don't get transferred will receive severance.

There are PLENTY of things wrong with the company, I would never say there aren't. It just seems like it's very easy for people to jump on the company because it's such a corporate giant. No, our coffee isn't the best. Yes, many people find the roast too dark. We do offer bold, medium, and mild blends.  I'll point out that it's not really possible for us to burn it in store, since we don't put our coffee on a burner at all. The new coffee, Pike Place, isn't expected to store for very long at all. That's one of the things they are stressing about it, the roast date is clearly displayed in store and we only keep a batch of brewed coffee for 30 minutes. Our espresso is not the best, especially since we can not manually pull our shots. I think customers appreciate the consistency (that SHOULD be there) in getting the same vanilla latte and any store, and that we really put effort into trying to make a connection with them.

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Tim Hortons has supplanted McDonald's as Canada's largest food service operator; it has nearly twice as many Canadian outlets as McDonald's, and its system-wide sales surpassed those of McDonald's Canadian operations in 2002.[7] The chain accounted for 22.6% of all fast food industry revenues in Canada in 2005.[3] Tim Hortons commands 76% of the Canadian market for baked goods (based on the number of customers served) and holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7%).[8]

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ORIGINAL: abcbsex

Having lived near seattle for most of my life, I just want to say, ABOUT DAMN TIME. they've taken enough of my moneys!

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ORIGINAL: Maya2001

Heck maybe they will get replaced by Tim Hortons ...

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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie

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ORIGINAL: Maya2001

Heck maybe they will get replaced by Tim Hortons ...

I tried Tim Hortons coffee a few months ago.  I took one sip, tossed it out, and went to Starbucks next door.  It was, by far, the worst coffee I have ever had in my life! 

The timmies were tasty, though - I kept those. 

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ORIGINAL: proudsub
Mercurys has locations in Woodinville, Redmond and Fall City.

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ORIGINAL: JohnSteed1967

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ORIGINAL: proudsub
Mercurys has locations in Woodinville, Redmond and Fall City.

Hey Bill Gates is looking for a Job, sounds like a perfect place for a retiree! I mean he is in Redmond