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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Review of Starbucks

Under the grips of Starbucks

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

...a school for a community that would otherwise have none. On an environmental impact basis, Starbucks use less packaging and recycled products wherever possible including all salad and sandwich packaging which is fully compostable. They also promote conservation in the countries where their coffee is grown coffee-growing countries. Of course, there is the concern that more efforts could be made to promote fair trade and that much of the corporate responsibility efforts are simply an effort to look good to the users?I?m saying nothing. The Product and cost ************************* *Hot Drinks ? Average between £1.79 and almost £4.00 for a fancy seasonal treat Coffee isn?t just coffee these days. Nowadays you?ve got extra shots, non-fat, half fat, half heat, no foam caffeine free, fair trade?.and the list goes on and on and on. You can get...

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

...I don't like about this particular Starbucks is that when I paid today, I had to take my cake and two cups of tea over to a different area to get milk - which I found hard to do as there seems to be a lack of trays in the store. What I did like was the size of mugs that the teas came in - a regular size comes in quite a large mug. Price of teas seemed dear but it's probably about average, we were £4.60 for two cups of tea and one cake, although I did notice that there is a big difference in take-away price and sit in price (£1.35 to take away a cake and £1.70 to sit in). It is a nice clean coffee shop though with a lot of staff working there who seem to know their coffees....

jules.34 04.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks

Starbucks - Not A high star rating

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

...in all this range is likely to be expensive premium priced, and also very unhealthy. Most contain wheat and and gluten. Take away coffee ground beans from Starbucks are available for customers to buy for use at home. Though again Arabica, Ethiopian coffee and others are available for sale £4 for approximately 100-200 grams of bagged unprocessed ground beans. The coffee can be grounded by staff if necessary. These foreign coffees for some unknown reason are not sold direct to customers when drinking in store or for takeaway use. This in my opinion is the Macdonalds effect of standardising products. Ok you want a coffee you get coffee. That is about as far as product knowledge and wide experience as the customer is going to get by visiting a Starbucks and other coffee stores a like. Conclusion: Good for relaxed customers...

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

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 - 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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