#starbucks

Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came to this conclusion, I started to dig deeper into the company's other promises--great working conditions, musical discovery, fair treatment of farmer, and concern for the environment. Every time I went excavating, the stories turned out to be more complex, more heavily edited, and more ambiguous than I had first thought. Each time, it became clear that Starbucks fulfilled its many promises only in the thinnest, most transitory of ways and that people's desires went largely unfulfilled. ↗

— Bryant Simon

#community #starbucks #music

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. ↗

— Dave Barry

#espresso #peets #starbucks #coffee

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job. ↗

— Azealia Banks

#having #i #job #life #manager

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#get #individual #ours #secret #site

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. ↗

— Katie Holmes

#every #every day #i #must #spoiled

I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#right #starbucks #worked

I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#dog #get #go #i #lady

Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#because #been #feel #fix #horrendous

I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road. ↗

— James Rollins

#also #another #bit #does #done

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coffee #competitors #countries #developing #effort