Starbucks Review

Advantages: Great coffee, nice surroundings
Disadvantages: Expensive

...Starbucks is a global coffee house chain; in fact it's the biggest coffee house company in the world. It was founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, and now has over 15,000 stores in 44 countries. It enjoyed a huge expansion in the 1990's which included its first chain outside North America (Tokyo in 1996) and the first UK Starbucks in 1998. As well as coffee, Starbucks sell a wide variety of beverages including Hot Chocolate, Fruit Smoothies and bottled water. They also sell snacks such as muffins, caramel shortbread as well as healthier alternatives such as yogurt and 'skinny' muffins. To me, the prices overall are a little expensive, but I pay them because no-one makes coffee like they do! I know a lot of people don't like it and they think the coffee is too sickly etc, but I do like the sweetness. I don't like black coffee so...

Walter_Kovacs 17.01.2009 · Read review
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Under the grips of Starbucks

Advantages: Addictive, costly and taking over the world
Disadvantages: good coffee, good service, good selection...

...For many years I reveled in my hatred for Starbucks and everything they stood for. I despised them for their corporate branded image. I condemned them for their over the top prices. I recoiled at their growing popularity as one by one they popped up on most city street corners. I categorically refused to be sucked into the brand and for several years avoided every setting foot inside one. Last year whilst working in Glasgow, I allowed myself to be taken in and I succumbed to the unthinkable. I remember that day well. It was quarter to eight one morning last November. It had been raining in Glasgow for what felt like two years, and as I trailed up Buchanan street in the pitch black, shivering against the wind and trying desperately to ignore the fast stream of water running down the street and over my feet; I felt a warmth radiate...

ally2kc 09.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks

Starbucks

Advantages: Nice sized cups of tea
Disadvantages: Pricey, no comfey seats, no trays

...Created in the 1970's, Starbucks must be one of the most famous world-wide coffee chain. It is quite comforting in a way to know that no matter where in the world you are going, there is a good chance that you will find a Starbucks - comforting if it is something that you are used to. In Inverness where I live there are 2 Starbucks stores, one is in the shopping centre in town, and the other is located within a Borders bookshop store in the town. I do not know what the one in town is like, although when I am passing it I quite often see mothers with children in it so it must be quite child-friendly. I often visit the one within the Borders bookshop, mainly because there is nowhere else to go at the retail park just for a coffee. I was in Starbucks today actually and because it is located within another store it is not a huge...

jules.34 04.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks

The Starbucks Generation.

Advantages: COFFEE!!
Disadvantages: Pricey coffee...

...I've been addicted to Starbucks for years. I worship Starbucks. Starbucks is the very example of everything I love about city living. I first discovered this international shrine to coffee in Canada (Vancouver, to be precise - the city of 1,000,000 Starbucks stores. (Well, nearly)). The first time I walked into a Starbucks I was bowled over by the extensive range of coffees. While this seems to be most people's complaint about the store ("I just want a *plain* coffee - what's a plain coffee?" "Well madam, that depends on how you like your coffee - would you like a latte or an americano or a cappuccino, or maybe a chocolatey mocha, or possibly just an espresso, and would you like flavoured syrup and/or whipped cream with that?"), I love experimenting with my coffee and this was like a dream come true. Admittedly, it took me half an hour...

louiseypees 11.08.2002 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks, Leeds

Starbucks - Not A high star rating

Advantages: Competitive priced Coffee
Disadvantages: Taste and Priced not as good as Caffee Nero

...Starbucks is a well known, almost global coffee brand. This chain of coffee shops are fully company owned. The price of coffee per metric tonne is approximately £883 a tonne. So for coffee shop stores there is a very high profit margin to be made. I was travelling on my way to Crawley and as i was in London Victoria i noticed a burger type van advertising Starbucks. I thought to myself i have been to Starbucks before lets see how they fare. Firstly i was not impressed with the service here. There were 2 staff in the van, no customers in the queue, and dispite this it took me 2 minutes to get served. I noticed the bin they were using was full up with some plastic rubbish. Certainly not inviting for regular customers or great first impressions here. The display of my coffee money was in a take away Starbucks plastic cup...

costas1234 09.01.2008 (31.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of Starbucks (London)

Starbucks - an absolute must on cold, wintery days.

Advantages: Comfy, excellent service, fantastic choice of drinks and snacks. seasonal drinks are amazing.
Disadvantages: can be crowded and busy if you go at the wrong time, e.g. saturday afternoons!

...Don't you hate it when it gets to winter time and you find that Christmas has crept up on you yet again this year? It seems to start earlier each year! You always seem to find yourself cold, stressed, laden with bags and frequenting large queues outside department stores and you just feel like screaming "Bahhh Humbug!' to anyone who's near you. Well I have eventually found the ideal cure to what I call 'The Christmas Crisis'. When you just want to give up and go home and think 'oh forget that last present, i'll get him some socks instead'. Instead of abandoning ship and sludging home in your winter boots deflated and stressed, I urge you to find a Starbucks! There is truly nothing more satisfying than collapsing into one of their cosy leather couches with a caramel latter and a 'too-good-to-be-allowed' piece of cake. I guarantee you...

zoelouisa 13.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks Coffee

LETS MEET IN STARBUCKS! ! !

Advantages: Chilled out relaxing atmosphere!
Disadvantages: Is quite pricey!

...Gosh that is a phrase I hear most days now from my friends! Starbucks it would seems is the place to be! Forget the whole trendy bars in town! If you go to Starbucks your hip and happening! :-) Starbucks has now got several cafes in our town center all in all I believe there are three or four! You can normally find one of this chain i most towns and citys! SO HOW DO I ORDER? Well when you enter you are normally first greeted with a stand containing panini's and sandwiches, futher on from that you are greeted by a display of many cakes and muffins for you too choose from! YUM YUM! At the end of all this line of many tempting goodies you come to the till which up above has a list of the many different drinks which you can purchase! They come in 3 sizes Tall, Grande and Venti! If you are unsure about what size to get...

glitterstar21 28.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks

Starbucks in St Katharine's Dock London

Advantages: Great views, great atmosphere, great coffee
Disadvantages: A bit expensive

...Everybody knows Starbucks, the largest coffee house in the world. I am going to review the one in St Katharine's Dock in London as this is my nearest and dearest. I think Starbucks is rather like marmite, you either love it or you hate it. Some people hate the fact that they have to pay £3 for a cup of coffee, other people can't get enough. I am definitely in the second camp, I am a Starbucks fan. I think what has captured the world is their relationship with coffee, they like to think of their stores as a "third place", ie the third place you go in this world after home and work and I think it is this attitude that produces the friendly asmosphere and sense of belonging that their houses promote. The store in St Katharine's dock is a beautiful building, it is a round, almost mill looking type building with a dome on top and has...

Spottydog11 10.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks (London)

THE STARBUCKS EVENT HORIZON

Advantages: Quiet in the mornings, good expresso & granola bars
Disadvantages: Can be packed, expensive, drip/filter coffee is terrible

...Remember The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy ? At one point there is a reference to the imminent collapse of a civilisation often being preceeded by the observation that all of the shops in the highstreet have become shoeshops. I believe that this was a prescient, yet slightly inaccurate view of the future. Douglas Adams lived (once) in Cambridge and wrote accurately about its one way system. South Park has also observed the Starbucks takeover phenomenon. Cambridge now has four FOUR Starbucks and has closed one old one. There is one near to the main shopping centre (The Grafton Centre) with an upstairs that is often not crowded. Head to the back of the store. There is another smaller takeaway only branch on Quayside my Magdalene Bridge (spelling ? who cares I'm a townie). Then there are two more by the market. They are next to each...

Saturn 31.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks

More STAR TREK than STARBUCKS

Advantages: great ambience, quintissentially american, great coffee
Disadvantages: apparently their Tea is not so good

...Life these days is all about brand names. The recent plethora of Coffee houses that have sprung up all over the UK, has been led by that mega US brand STARBUCKS. Strange though that over in the US, many people hate them. In fact there is even a website dedicated to the ‘hobby’ www.ihatestarbucks.com. Amazing – they only serve coffee, they aren’t exporting nucleur weapons to third world countries. Well that’s the Yanks for you. But one thing they do well is provide comfortable places to relax and indulge yourself in a nice cup of coffee – or try something just a little more exotic. Myself, I’ve always been a coffee drinker. Ever since I was old enough to tell Mum – nope I don’t like Tea, please could I have coffee. You see I was a very polite child (no, really ask my Mum, ring...

flashpointz 28.05.2001 · Read review
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