I'm kind of alarmed at how much TEA they serve at Starbucks COFFEE house. If people want tea so badly, why not go to a tea shop? It's taking up menu space for the real coffee drinkers.
Simple economics really: they get more customers by selling more than just coffee. My believer mom LOVES that double-chocolatey-chip frappucino they have because it doesn't have any coffee in it. My believer dad loves their chocolate croissants. And I have to admit their banana bread is pretty good.
I’ll bet Dieter could open a coffee shop on temple square. All he has to do is consecrate the beans. Ice cream and holy iced coffee. Mormon beliefs will turn on a dime if a GA is involved.
Starbucks has snookered the public into buying $.25 worth of coffee & added junk for $5.00 or more. That is why I don't go to Starbucks. They are a huge rip-off.
What tea houses?
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You're with a group, and one of you does not want coffee (Starbucks) or a burger (McD's). Will that person's preference constitute a kind of veto? No, the exception person can tag along and get something else.
Dave, you're right: the big question is why do people pay those prices for good, but not superlative, coffee? I notice they're closing a few hundred stores, but there are a number of possible explanations I won't get into here.
Dave, if you should come to Boston, be sure to let me know. I'd love to take you to the Eastern coffee chain (Dunkin Donuts) or maybe a nice independent coffee shop ("Caffienation," cute, huh?) or a decent Irish pub. Or all three!
As a genetically programmed tea drinker I never buy tea out. Never have found a decent cuppa. The problem starts with water not hot enough and usually goes down hill from there.
Perhaps DD's franchisees did not do a good job with location selection and promotion. There's no telling.
I read a few years ago that DD (now "Dunkin Brands," groan...), in attempting to expand the brand nationally, was waving most franchise fees and costs to people who want to plant the DD flag in places not yet marketed. Don't know what the present situation is. I'm a consumer, not an invester.
There’s talk of Starbucks having a wine bar, too. The motivation behind this is to encourage more ways to break the Word of Wisdom. The Hookah-smoking Boner.
The coffee house I frequent every morning sells great coffee...and great tea. And your point is? If Starbucks changed their name to "STARBUCKS HOT BEVERAGES" would that be better?
Friends meet and four of them want coffee, but one likes tea or has a digestive problem which disallows coffee. Now they can sip and chat without one friend having nothing to drink.
Your post reminds me of Janet Margolin's character in Woody Allen's mockymentary, "Take the Money and Run." She plays an inept bride to Allen's more-inept bank robber. Fixing him breakfast, she throws a teabag into a cup, then fills it with coffee. :+(
Some people like tea instead of coffee. And Starburnts is more than happy to sell overpriced tea in addition to overpriced (and roasted to the point of burnt) coffee. Plus, tea shops in America aren't that common. And I'm not going to buy a bus ticket to Spokane just for a cuppa.
And kudos to you, too, beansandbrews. Great moniker!
I was in a Dunkin Donuts today, and noticed they have a promotional t-shirt (with their logo), which reads, "Friends Don't Let Friends Drink Starbucks." I just night get one.
Though I don't understand the outrage over tea being on the menu. I'm not aware of any coffee place that *only* sells coffee. Starbucks is pretty flexible in that they'll make you whatever you want if they have the ingredients.
They burn the coffee beans to keep the flavor consistent from store to store. Rather than accepting that each batch might be a little different in flavor, they roast the beans more to give it a uniform flavor.
I love tea. It was the only thing I had a hard time giving up ad a member. I hate coffee, hard liquor and wine. I like some beers,but could do without it. Tea was hard , since I’ve been drinking it iced since 2nd grade and hot in junior high. When we lived in England, there were tea shops everywhere; I loved it,but here they’re hard to find. Starbucks is the only place that sells it around here.
I think SB's strategy is to buy up anything remotely related to coffee such as tea and thus insure that if you want it, you have to get it as Starbucks.
So I would guess it is a strategy to capture the tea market.