You don't go to Starbucks for the coffee. It's just a comfortable, familiar place to be a shiftless layabout pretending to work on your laptop that's not home. The vaguely coffee-scented diabetic child's drink you buy with it is a mere courtesy.
I made the mistake of ordering something labeled tea there once. Probably more corn syrup in it than anything that could be accurately called tea. I'll stick to the he iced chocolate if I ever end up there again. At least then I know I'm getting a chocolate milkshake.
I go to local non-chain coffees not because the coffee is any better (it very often isn't) but I'd figure my courtesy $3 or $4 on a burnt roast and a small pastry means more to them (especially after 2020) than Starbucks, which easily survives civil unrest and has plenty to go around.
You don't go to Starbucks for the coffee. It's just a comfortable, familiar place to be a shiftless layabout pretending to work on your laptop that's not home. The vaguely coffee-scented diabetic child's drink you buy with it is a mere courtesy.
I made the mistake of ordering something labeled tea there once. Probably more corn syrup in it than anything that could be accurately called tea. I'll stick to the he iced chocolate if I ever end up there again. At least then I know I'm getting a chocolate milkshake.
I go to local non-chain coffees not because the coffee is any better (it very often isn't) but I'd figure my courtesy $3 or $4 on a burnt roast and a small pastry means more to them (especially after 2020) than Starbucks, which easily survives civil unrest and has plenty to go around.