Starbucks closes shops that vote to unionize. Boycott Starbucks.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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Support local independent coffee shops.
My local coffee shop donates all proceeds to orphan cage fights :(
At least it's not homeless cage fights.
I mean technically orphans are homeless.
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And you get the added benefit of not overpaying for shitty burnt coffee.
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I used to love Starbucks because it was a great place to get coffee and chill. Then the whole anti-unions thing, and local coffee shops did it better making me drop Starbucks.
I used to love Chipotle because of their quality and price. Then portions got weirder. Every week was a new food recall. The ones near me look filthy and sad, and that made me drop Chipotle.
To see both of their names together... Yikes.
For Mexican food, try your local mexican Doña or Don.
You're looking for the place that uses paper plates, has a website, but clearly took the picture of their food 10 years ago with a Motorola Razr.
Website? Negative ghost rider.
You're looking for the place with the small self-serve sauces, jalapeños and pickled carrots &onions. Never tablecloths. Strip mall locations only if located in the US Southwest. Wheels +3 to menu, -1 cost modifiers. +5 to taste if Latinx customers eat there.
Spanish is a completely gendered language. None of them want or use the term Latinx, and they think people trying to use it are morons. The X in Latinx can't even be conjugated in Spanish. The only ones trying to make Latinx a "thing" are Caucasians from the US.
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This dude ruined chipotle in so many ways. Cutting serving sizes, using lower quality ingredients, reducing employee count and training quality, just letting everything slip. He took that chain from one of the most reliable to somewhere I refuse to set foot in.
But line went up, clearly he's a genius, fail into the next role!
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I prefer just black coffee. No milk, sugar.
Out of all chain coffee places (in the UK, so costa/nero etc), starbucks has the worst tasting coffee
As someone who also only drinks black coffee I agree. Their signature taste is literally burnt because of the way they roast their beans. It's terrible.
This goes into great detail about exactly why Starbucks coffee is so shitty.
And if you guessed a big part of it is about saving money, you win the teddy bear.
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Yes, true of most any national/international chain.
It's because they value large volume, year round availability, and high consistency from their beans and roasts, so that no matter what location you go to it tastes exactly the same.
To do that, they select and blend several bland varieties of coffee bean, put them through an aggressive industrial cleaning and drying (which reduces the natural fruity and funky flavors but minimizes costs) then roast them in huge batches to several steps past where a normal roaster would stop for a given roast (a darker roast gets rid of more of the unique flavors of the coffee cherry and brings out more uniform roast flavors instead).
Again, not something exclusive to Starbucks at all, and plenty of small coffee shops don't bother with the hassle and just buy cheap bulk coffee pre-roasted by large scale operations and will have similar results.
But man, when you get coffee made in small batches, with natural processing or even fermentation and gently roasted... It's an entirely different experience.
It's just weird that any chain would opt for consistently awful instead of just settling for slight variations. It's also weird that people still buy it despite the fact it is objectively and consistently bad.
People who are going to Starbucks often aren't drinking black coffee. They get some sugar, cream, and flavor combo such that the coffee is barely noticeable. It is coffee for people who don't like coffee.
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I hope Starbucks fans like waiting hours to get the wrong order.
That already happens at busy locations
Strange that I am in active boycott of two restaurants, and it happens to be both of these places. Not for anything high minded - they both discontinued their chorizo offerings, the only thing I liked on either of their menus. Happened 7 or 8 years ago now, and I won't go back.
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We can now get e.coli at an anti-union coffee grift establishment?
Sweet!
From one bean company to another. I hope everyone calls him Mr. Bean.
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Load up on e-coli at Chipotle, then make that supersonic by getting Starbucks.
Starbucks is sugary, trash water. Brew your own coffee at home. Costs way less, tastes much better, and it's significantly healthier compared to the flavored milk they sell.
Meanwhile, what they serve at Chipotle is not worth even half of what they charge for it.
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Schultz came out of retirement just to shit on unionizing efforts and then pass it along. Just a little union busting, as a treat.
One thing that confounded me when I went to Starbucks for the first time. Asked them for a large black coffee. Since their coffee is way overbrewed so it can be mixed with stuff, it was super strong super hot garbage.
Someone later told me to order it with a little ice to make it drinkable and dilute the flavor.
My question was: why can't I just buy coffee at a coffee place?
Have a stack of 5-10 year old Starbucks gift cards I've collected from various work functions that are still valid. I still haven't gone back. They can't even get me as a free customer.
Why don't you give those cards away to homeless people or food banks? They could use it
E. Coli stock prices are up 20%
Is that the guy that turns his head sideways for more rice and chicken on his burrito
Nepotism engine shifts some wealthy dudes around.
You know what else will be out?
Your colon.
Buy local or brown bag it.
I can't wait for the al pastor frappechino to be back in season 😻
I’m don’t understand how they can have a level of food that is so trash that even subway is better. McDonald’s is better. The frozen aisle at the supermarket is better. I don’t know how they managed to be so bad.
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