http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2005/12/starbucks-drivethru/ Rants and Raves on Espresso Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:36:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2005/12/starbucks-drivethru/#comment-268 TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Coffee kiosks: Driving force of coffee Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:26:10 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=12#comment-268 [...] Kiosks are more of a suburban phenomenon, with exceptions in S.F. such as Java Detour. You might expect coffee kiosks to be popular in inland Southern California, where many residents only leave the seat of their air conditioned monster trucks to sleep. However, kiosks are more prevalent in the Pacific Northwest; they have only recently made their way down south, with Starbucks still just testing out their drive-through market potential. [...] [...] Kiosks are more of a suburban phenomenon, with exceptions in S.F. such as Java Detour. You might expect coffee kiosks to be popular in inland Southern California, where many residents only leave the seat of their air conditioned monster trucks to sleep. However, kiosks are more prevalent in the Pacific Northwest; they have only recently made their way down south, with Starbucks still just testing out their drive-through market potential. [...]

]]> http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2005/12/starbucks-drivethru/#comment-61 TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Listen, barista, I’ll take my joe talk straight Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:44:42 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=12#comment-61 [...] Meghan E. Irons of The Boston Globe takes issue with the absurd new language required of customers ordering coffee these days: Listen, barista, I’ll take my joe talk straight - The Boston Globe. It’s what I’ve ridiculed here previously as the double-tall, four-pump vanilla caramel macchiato. [...] [...] Meghan E. Irons of The Boston Globe takes issue with the absurd new language required of customers ordering coffee these days: Listen, barista, I’ll take my joe talk straight - The Boston Globe. It’s what I’ve ridiculed here previously as the double-tall, four-pump vanilla caramel macchiato. [...]

]]> http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2005/12/starbucks-drivethru/#comment-54 TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Push Your Own Damn Button Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:08:07 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=12#comment-54 [...] Or let’s even take things a step further. We already have the likes of Starbucks resorting to a global strategy of idiot-proof push button Verismo machines to maintain their store growth with an ever larger, ever less-skilled workforce. Is it hard to envision a world where the customer bypasses the barista entirely — pushing their own button on a touch-screen kiosk to order their double-tall, four-pump vanilla caramel macchiato? [...] [...] Or let’s even take things a step further. We already have the likes of Starbucks resorting to a global strategy of idiot-proof push button Verismo machines to maintain their store growth with an ever larger, ever less-skilled workforce. Is it hard to envision a world where the customer bypasses the barista entirely — pushing their own button on a touch-screen kiosk to order their double-tall, four-pump vanilla caramel macchiato? [...]

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