/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10698830]

why do you dislike starbucks?

[Anonymous No.10698835]

Overpriced coffee for thots, no thanks.

[Anonymous No.10698837]

>>10698830
price to quality ratio is poor

[Anonymous No.10698841]

I don't like coffee.

[Anonymous No.10698844]

Their leader is a coward

[Anonymous No.10698845]

Too expensive and its quality is pretty damn bad.

[Anonymous No.10698847]

>>10698844
same reason why I don't like half of americans.

[Anonymous No.10698958]

Been there twice to hang out and do a magic draft with some friends
Pretty whatever place, had a regular coffee and a few pastries but they're pretty subpar
I think this place only got popular and succeeded because it's basically the library without books and people, being impulse driven, just buy shit from them when hungry loitering all day
Oh yeah I also went there once to buy a stolen laptop from a guy off craigslist who had a literal stack of them once

[Anonymous No.10698965]

overpriced, bad crowd and atmosphere, coffee taste burnt. I like hipster coffee places

[Anonymous No.10698969]

Because there are local cafes in my city entirely worth supporting.

[Anonymous No.10699001]

>>10698830
The one near where I live is really great, friendly staff and good food / drink. Other ones in my area are much poorer quality though. I am concerned about how their new legal loitering policies will fair though. There are a lot of really deranged homeless people in my area, and the store will probably go to shit now.

[Anonymous No.10699104]

>>10698830
overpriced coffee that isnt even close to average quality next to the local cafeterias or coffee shops
but since its a touristic city it makes money from tourists that dont know any other place

[Anonymous No.10699112]

>>10698830
I don't. But most of they drinks are literally just syrup with cream.

The few times i go there I only buy normal coffee or tea.

[Anonymous No.10699121]

here's a protip for Starbucks
Don't fucking bother with the coffee
The non coffee drinks are unironically better
Green tea lattes (hot or iced,) cool lime refreshers, and strawberry acai refreshers with coconut milk are pretty much all I get there
Overpriced as fuck but sometimes you gotta treat yo self

[Anonymous No.10699180]

>>10698830
bad yet expensive coffee
focuses on meme drinks that are closer to milkshakes than coffee
everything is overpriced
obnoxious normie girls love it for some reason

[Anonymous No.10699182]

>>10698830
Grocery store coffee tastes better.

[Anonymous No.10699185]

>burnt coffee
>overpriced
>can't customize foods
>"pumpkin spice latte" doesn't have pumpkin
>shit options to customize latte
>retarded sizing system

[Anonymous No.10699200]

>>10698830
Their product to price ratio is dog shit. Also I got fired for coming in hung over many years ago, which I hold a childish grudge against them.

[Anonymous No.10699213]

>>10698830
>high price
>low quality
>full of hipsters

[Anonymous No.10699215]

>>10699185
To be fair pumpkin spice isn't supposed to have pumpkin in it. It's just called that because you put it in pumpkin pie.
Also I don't understand how people say Starbucks is overpriced compared to other places. It costs about the same if not less than every local coffee shop I know of. Cafe's in general are overpriced, not just Starbucks.
Everything else you said is true though.

[Anonymous No.10699218]

>>10699215
it's definitely overpriced in europe

[Anonymous No.10699228]

>>10699218
Well here in maryland a coffee at Starbucks was like 3-4 dollars. If I to Rise up coffee which is a local cafe it's damn near the exact same price. Albeit for a somewhat better quality product.

[Anonymous No.10699252]

>>10699213
real hipsters drink specialty, single-origin coffee at hipster coffee shops, starbucks is for wannabes

[Anonymous No.10699322]

>>10698830
>go fuck yourself
Why is this necessary? Why is there another line after the punch line?

[Anonymous No.10699352]

>>10698830
Just a bit soulless and corporate is all

[Anonymous No.10699382]

>>10698830
Because they apologised for rightfully kicking out 2 non-customers who wanted to use all the facilities and got race-baited

[Anonymous No.10699402]

>>10699322
How else would you know how to react to the punchline?

[Anonymous No.10699405]

>tall
>large
>20
who came up with this shit

[Anonymous No.10699410]

>>10698830
>go fuck yourself
time to call the cops : ^ )

[Anonymous No.10699471]

>>10698830
Hipster garbage overpriced burnt tasting shit...and I don't drink coffee...

[Anonymous No.10699487]

>>10699471
>Hipster
You don't become a billion dollar company by cater only to hipsters. Hipsters go to even more overpriced local cafes.

[Anonymous No.10699517]

>>10698969
this, we have good local coffee shops

[Anonymous No.10699522]

>>10698830
Because panera and chick fillet have better coffee

[Anonymous No.10699527]

>>10698830
because their social marketing is too obvious
makes you feel like you are retarded, bombarding you with how good they are with employees and producers when they are just the same if not worse than other big corps

[Anonymous No.10699557]

>>10699215
>Also I don't understand how people say Starbucks is overpriced compared to other places
I can get a large pour-over for less than a normal shit-coffee at some local coffee places here
hell, even mcdonalds has a better tasting coffee for like $1 for any size

[Anonymous No.10699574]

>>10698830
Communists.

[Anonymous No.10699694]

>>10699487
>>10699471
Yep. Yep. Worth it? Nope.
>>10698830
I bought a hot chocolate from there once and they just microwaved some chocolate milk.
They cater to the sensitivities of a niche group for an image that people buy for the sake of an outdated, cultural hit-and-miss.

Besides, this >>10698969 and making it at home can be more of an experience worth saving, and can actually be cheaper. And I don't mean just making a coffee at home, bleh, boring. I mean testing out different kinds from various regions of the world, made with different water sources, machines and methods, etc.

[Anonymous No.10699740]

Because niggers will now infest it, along with the homeless

And like other anons said, I'd rather go to a local Cafe

[Anonymous No.10699757]

>>10698830
The coffee tastes burned. It's like if a sandwich joint decided they wanted all their sandwiches to taste the same so they start putting them all on burned toast.

[Anonymous No.10699944]

>>10699757
Predictability and stability are far, far more important than taste when you're making a huge brand like this. It's easier and more profitable to make a mediocre product that tastes the same every time than to make a good product, especially if the 'good' product varies in quality from day to day.

[Anonymous No.10699978]

>>10699944
It's fucking burned though, it's like they charge three times as much because they cooked it three times as long and normies just go along with it.

[Anonymous No.10699999]

>>10699978
Yes. Because that produces a far more easily repeatable result.

[Anonymous No.10700012]

>>10699999
>>10700000

[Anonymous No.10700030]

>>10700012
quints is still my best get so far after over a decade here so I'll take it.

[Anonymous No.10700084]

>>10699999
Mmm, Domino's new pizza is so good, I better pay three times as much for it!

[Anonymous No.10700311]

>>10698847
t.obsessed

[Anonymous No.10700671]

>>10699944
>>10699757
dark roasts aren't any more predictable than lighter roasts, they're just cheaper:
>buy shit-tier coffee
>burn it to mask the bad taste
>add shittons of sugar, cream and syrup
>charge normies out the ass for bad coffee with a lot of HFCS and aromas
wa la

[Anonymous No.10700688]

>>10698830
over-priced, dumb naming conventions are inconsequential but still annoying, the plain black coffee is shit and everything else is full of so much unhealthy shit

[Anonymous No.10700731]

>>10700688
>everything else is full of so much unhealthy shit
This is the big one for me. I tried one of their drinks one time and got a headache from all the sugar before I was half done.

[Anonymous No.10700746]

i haven't had a coffee from them in years. their sweet tea is alright, but about 50% of the time they mix it incorrectly and you have to hand it back so they can try again.

[Anonymous No.10700915]

I do go there. I usually like to meet up with some friends.

I play music loudly on my phone and don't buy anything.

[Anonymous No.10701047]

>>10699978
Real talk, drip coffee from Norms is better than Starbucks. Starbucks doesn't even got the kick that kebab coffee (Turkish coffee) has in exchange for the dank-ass flavour.

[Anonymous No.10701076]

>>10698830
Sir we will not tolerate your racism at Starbucks. Everyone is welcome to stay here and to use our bathrooms even if they aren't a paying customer. Please leave the store now.

[Anonymous No.10701088]

i went there out of convenience but i think i have to cut it off now after the forced indoctrination of their staff for corporate PR

it's one thing to voluntarily employ people as a means to a corporate end, it's another to attempt to influence what they think as individuals

[Anonymous No.10701103]

>>10698830
Because they're leftist jews with overpriced terrible coffee

[Anonymous No.10701113]

>>10698969
>local cafe
>routinely sour espresso
>routinely sour cold brew
>replaced a bunch of their baked goods with gluten free stuff

[Anonymous No.10701144]

>>10701113
>acidity in coffee is a bad thing

[Anonymous No.10701431]

>>10701144
>underextraction is the gold standard of coffee
This meme needs to die.

[Anonymous No.10701440]

i used to dislike it because it was overpriced
now i dislike it because everything from there tastes like shit compared to mcdonald's

[Anonymous No.10701936]

>>10698830
Shit coffee.
Shit prices.
Pretentious sizing names.
Bathroom policies continually change
Lobbies always full of idiots doing interviews, mlm scams, business meetings.
Work from home retards on laptops.
Homeless people.
Cunt workers.

[Anonymous No.10701966]

>people actually pay like $10 for the starbucks logo when the coffee itself is comparable to macca's

[Anonymous No.10702012]

>>10699121
It's called a pink drink you fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.10702175]

>>10701936
>Pretentious sizing names
i think tall, grande, and venti are widely used
>Lobbies always full of idiots doing interviews, mlm scams, business meetings.
i've never seen this, you must live in a weird part of the world
>Bathroom policies continually change
how the hell would you know? and how different can the rules of a bathroom be from the universal use of a bathroom?

[Anonymous No.10702810]

>>10699104
When I’m in Europe, all the coffee shops blow Starbucks away. In the US, it’s hit and miss.

[Anonymous No.10702819]

>>10699322
That's the modern climate. You need to provide an over-the-top negative reaction to a pun or people are just dissatisfied.

[Anonymous No.10702854]

Because they're American and we had plenty of proper baristas in Norway before they came, and their branded bullshit is no better than the local bullshit.
TL;DR: it's a forced meme.

[Anonymous No.10704053]

>>10699215
>pumpkin
>pie
yea nah

[Anonymous No.10704075]

>>10698835
ABSOLUTELY BASED THOT DESTROYER.
Praise be unto thee, great Prophet.

[Anonymous No.10704136]

>>10698830
Only their hot chocolate is any good.

[Anonymous No.10704168]

>>10698830
I don't have anything against Starbucks. I don't really care for their product, but it's ubiquity is useful. What I really can't stand is how the people in line just try to be a bigger cunt than the person in front of them. One-ups-manship in the cunt of the year contest.
Person 'a:' I'll have a venti no-whip two pump mocha
Person 'b:' I'll have a venti no whip, half-skim, one pump, half-caf mocha
Person 'c" worse
Person 'd' unimaginably worse
Etc.
It's like an arms race to the title of biggest pain in the ass in America.
Remember in the 80s when postal workers all went nuts and shot up the place? I don't want it to happen at Starbucks, but if it does, I'll understand.

Oh, and all of the cunts have pic related as their haircut.

[Anonymous No.10704209]

>>10698830
their actual coffee and espresso is bad, which, as a man who requires caffeine to function, is a turn off. it's a store for high school girls to get double extra venti mocha no-whip nonfat milk pumpkin spice frappachinos that cost seven fucking dollars. You can get a better actual coffee pretty much anywhere else for less money.

I have no idea why they don't just start selling ice cream as well. Their blended drinks which every teenage girl in uggs with "CHEER" written on her skank shorts and grey hoodie orders are practically one step away from a soft serve milkshake.

[Anonymous No.10704214]

>>10704209
>man who requires caffeine to function
>man
Ok

[Anonymous No.10704224]

>>10704214
>Men can't be addicted
>Men just need cold water and rolled oats to live

[Anonymous No.10704226]

I used to go there to get American style coffee because Spain only does espresso almost everywhere. Suddenly, a Tim Hortons opened and there's absolutely no reason to go. Decent and way cheaper coffee, better pastries. At this point Starbucks only has the better WiFi and smooth jazz going for it.

[Anonymous No.10704250]

>>10704168
I have a drive thru Starbucks near me. It's insufferable.

All I want is an iced coffee with one sugar in it, but you always get stuck behind some suburban mom in a minivan or hideous crossover thing who orders 16 fucking blended drinks for some unknown reason. It's literally a contest of how to be as obnoxious as humanly possible to the people in line behind you.

[Anonymous No.10704260]

>>10698830

I only drink black coffee and I don't think Starbucks' coffee is bad.

The only one I don't like is their French roast because it does taste burnt imo but their other blends I think are pretty good. I'm not a coffee snob though.

[Anonymous No.10704267]

>>10704260
blonde roast is ok, as are some of the higher end blends. the standard pikes peak or whatever it's called is just burnt cheap arabica. they roast the absolute piss out of cheap beans to make a consistent product, and it's consistently not very good.

[Anonymous No.10704270]

>>10704250
>All I want is an iced coffee with one sugar in it,
Call me a pleb, but I don't really like my coffee hot. I want to drink it, not spend 45 minutes sipping it. So:
>be me at Starbucks drive thru
>(garbled nonsense about some stupid club)
>Um, no thanks. Can I have a medium coffee with cream and sugar?
>Grande?
>Sure, whatever.
>Anything else?
>Can you put a few ice cubes in it so it's not quite as hot?
>So you want an iced coffee?
>No, a regular medium coffee but with a few ice cubes
>Grande iced coffee?

Kill me.

[Anonymous No.10704286]

>>10704270
The fake italian size names crack me up. I always order small, medium, and large and some of the baristas get really mad about it. It just seems so pretentious.

[Anonymous No.10704372]

>a Venti rat

I don't get it

[Anonymous No.10704401]

>>10704286
i do too

[Anonymous No.10704408]

>>10704224
>Rolled oats and water
>Not eating dry corn meal

Must be nice living in the lap of luxury like some sort of pampered princess.

[Anonymous No.10704573]

>>10699228
>rise up coffee

Whatup eastern shore

[Anonymous No.10704577]

>>10704286
Yeah I can garantee you that no minimum wage Starbucks employee gets mad at you calling the drink sizes a different name lmao but whatever helps you feel superior i guess

[Anonymous No.10704586]

>>10704270
Jesus just get an iced coffee faggot

[Anonymous No.10704590]

>>10700311
>t. kekistani

[Anonymous No.10704603]

Being a barista (coffee slave) at Starbucks was my first job. Fuck that place
Also AMA

[Anonymous No.10704681]

>>10704586
>I am enjoying 8th grade today.

[Anonymous No.10704708]

>>10702175
>i think tall, grande, and venti are widely used

[Anonymous No.10704746]

>live in downtown salt lake city
>despite being a very mormon state downtown salt lake is actually fairly diverse and there is a large homeless problem
>have a coupon for 5 dollars to a Starbucks from my car insurance
>figure fuck it, how bad can it be, forgetting about the recent decision to let people loiter
>go into one on 400 south, about a mile from pioneer park, aka hobo gardens
>immediately greeted by the pungent odor of homelessness, sweat and urine
>some crackhead lying down on a couch says 'ayo spot me a buck man'
>go up to register, the coffee is literally 5 dollars, I thought I would be able to get at least 2
>ask guy at register how the employees are reacting to the homeless loitering
>well, we can't kick them out but more than half of us put in our two weeks last week when this happened
>tfw Starbucks will be dead soon
>nothing of value will be lost
>retreat to my favorite breakfast diner where I can get good food for the same price I'd pay Starbucks for coffee

[Anonymous No.10704750]

>>10700915

[Anonymous No.10704778]

>>10702175
certified retard

[Anonymous No.10704780]

>>10698830
because their coffee is complete garbage

[Anonymous No.10704790]

>>10704577
t. mad

[Anonymous No.10704812]

I make my own coffee in an aluminum stovetop espresso maker.

[Anonymous No.10704834]

I dislike starbucks because they're fucking terrible at their job.
I understand the coffee isn't great and it's overpriced, but all the sugar and caffeine they inject into their drinks do the job of waking me up on days I have to be at work early.
However, even when using their shitty app before I even leave my house and drive 15 minutes to their location, it takes them 20 more minutes to give me a fucked-up order and 10 more minutes to fix it.
The good side of this story is that it compelled me to buy one of those shitty coffee makers so I can be made automatically and tossed into a thermos before I head out. Fuck Starbucks and fuck whoever decides to go there.

[Anonymous No.10704850]

>>10701113
Maybe you gotta move to a big boy city instead of whiling away your shitty life in that suburban shithole

[Anonymous No.10704870]

>>10698830
Starbucks is fine. It's fine like fast food or macro lagers are fine. At its worst it's really bad, at its best, it's somewhat okay. It's mass-produced and corporate and because of that the quality usually suffers: they let the coffee linger and burn in those huge urns, wait time is horrendous because everyone is ordering milk-sugar-syrup-flavoring drinks that contain little to no coffee and take forever to make, there's trash everywhere, their baked goods and food are stale and taste like wax.

Moreover, there's a metric pussyload of local places for me to go to that are usually orders of magnitude better, and because of their small scale have the patience, passion and creativity to really give a shit about making me a good cup of coffee.

[Anonymous No.10704921]

>>10698830
Overpriced bean-water with lots of sugar

[Anonymous No.10704934]

it's McDonald's for coffee

[Anonymous No.10704960]

>>10704834
online ordering is really a problem for them. they get bombed by huge orders by offices and shit and get stuck making those and ignore the line. starbucks corporate pushed it on to a lot of stores that were in no way prepared to deal with that or even have a space to put the finished drinks.

[Anonymous No.10704970]

>>10704934
I do a hell of a lot of driving, and have come to not only tolerate McDoggo coffee, but actually like it. It's cheap, always fresh, and they put the training wheels in the cup for you.

[Anonymous No.10704980]

Cause I work there

[Anonymous No.10704999]

>walk in
>order a tall pikes
>wait til they pour it
>"oops, forgot my wallet"
>they give it to me anyway

Works everytime. Then I chill in their lounge and use their wifi for a few hours. I use the coffee to generate braps so normies give me space.

[Anonymous No.10705008]

I don't go for there for the coffee. I go there so I can browse the internet for 4 hours alone and apart from the stress of the world.

[Anonymous No.10705228]

>>10698830
No opinion on Starbucks since I never go there. However, you just know the barista in this pic can suck a mean dick.

[Anonymous No.10705253]

It's really unhealthy. Fucking shit coffee packed full of calories. People only pay the overpriced amount for the status symbol like its a watch or something

[Anonymous No.10705266]

>>10704746
Starbucks is a fucking monolithic cafe chain, anon. A few baristas quitting in a shitty part of a city will not harm the business. If anything, locals will take their positions. The only thing that will harm starbucks is Americans suddenly developing a palate and learn how to make informed decisions with their money.

[Anonymous No.10705271]

At least it's better than fucking Costa. McCafe is pretty nice where I live though.
Anyway, an espresso from any half decent cafe is gonna btfo all of these chains.

[Anonymous No.10705293]

>>10704746
Downtown Salt Lake is weird. West of State Street it's like hobo fuckin' paradise but as soon as you hit state street and any streets east thereof, you don't see them at all.

t. used to live around 300S 400E.

[Anonymous No.10705296]

>>10698830
Too expensive for basically giving people basically liquid ice cream. A majority of their recipes can be done at home with simple equipment if you really like coffee that much.

[Anonymous No.10705311]

Awful coffee. It and my parents made me think I hated coffee. Then I visited italy, started buying my own. I love espresso. Even folgers tastes better than their black coffee because they burn the shit out of their beans (or so I am told, idk why it is so bad) and the only people who seem to like it just add a fuck ton of cream and sugar.

[Anonymous No.10705330]

>>10698830
overpriced, mostly rich (((white))) greek/italian/ashkanazi girl clientele

really, just being constantly full of JAPs and greek bitches on dumbass macbooks prattling on like wannabe valley girls is what makes it an unacceptable place to hang out. Second Cup is almost identical in terms of what it serves and how but I'd rather go there just because the client base isn't 100% thots