If you’ve ever ordered iced coffee from a coffee shop, you may have been asked whether or not you would like milk in it. What you may not realize is that some coffee shops ask this so they can charge you extra for the simple service of adding some milk to your coffee. We all…
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Who Orders Decaf from a Coffee Shop?! A Rant About “The Pour-Over”
I guess this is a bit of a personal rant, but after working at a coffee shop and being an avid fan of all things coffee for 10+ years, I have always been confused by people who order decaf coffee from coffee shops. Coffee shops charge a ridiculous amount of money for coffee, so why…
Starbucks reveals “Via” on National Coffee Day
Whether you knew it or not, September 29th is National Coffee Day! Coffee fans from around the nation are celebrating their love of the world’s greatest beverage. Over 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed each year, and on National Coffee Day many places are ready to give away free cups at no expense to…
What’s so great about Starbucks?
Why do independent coffee shops struggle to compete with Starbucks?
Dark Roast Coffee Jelly and some more..
On July 2, Starbucks Philippines introduced its latest feature beverage: Dark Roast Coffee Jelly. Yesterday, they started offering the following drinks: Dark Roast Coffee Jelly Frappuccino, Caramel Dark Roast Coffee Jelly Frappuccino and Iced Vanilla Dark Roast Coffee Jelly Latte. Together with these new drinks, they also included the following food products in their menu:…
Do baristas annoy you?
You walk into your favorite coffee shop, find a good spot, mark your temporary territory with a book or an invaluable belonging, walk over to the counter, and look up the menu. You’re thinking of what to order, when a familiar voice cuts in, “Hi (name)! Let me guess. Non-fat white chocolate mocha, no whipped…
Coffee and Dessert at Starbucks
Through the years, Starbucks has established itself not only as a place where you can get great-tasting and caffeine-loaded coffee, but also as the perfect venue for finding comfort food. Their desserts have been raved about my many. One of my favorite desserts from this coffee shop is their Banoffee Pie. It’s served in a…
April 21st, 50 cent Iced Coffee Day @ Dunkin Doughnuts!
Today April 21st, Dunkin Doughnuts is offering any small iced coffee for 50 cents. On top of that, Dunkin Doughnuts is donating 10 percent of the iced coffee proceeds to Homes for Our Troops, a non-profit organization that builds modified houses for wounded veterans. Along with their philanthropy work, Dunkin Doughnuts has also thwarted themselves…
Woyton’s (Cologne, Germany)
Woyton’s * Breite Straße 80–90, im Einkaufszentrum DuMont-Carré, 50667 Köln, Germany * +49 221 2708680 * www.woyton.de/koeln.html A cafe that is the German’s equivalent of “Starbucks”. Nice atmosphere and artsy decorated, obviously community hangout establishment. The prices are about half the cost that you would find in a Starbucks. However, the chai tea, was so…
Cider In The Coffeehouse?
I saw this over on <a href=”http://simpsonsparadox.com” 8 ) Caramel Apple Crack at Starbucks. I don’t know if the Starbucks in China has this, because I was too busy slurping up all the real-bean coffee and then getting the jitters. I don’t know what’s in it, either. I asked Stick and he thinks maybe it’s…