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STARBUCKS BOOMER MORNING CHOICES

April 16, 2018 by

 

Starbucks

 

 

That feeling when you’re driving long distance and have to make a head stop and there’s no rest area? Find a Starbucks, buy a tall coffee, problem solved.

 

Some of the best restrooms in public places are in Starbucks. Don’t like coffee? Then stop someplace else, like fast food, a gas station, the side of the road. If you don’t like coffee, buy a piece of carrot cake or banana bread.

 

But Starbucks is more than coffee.

 

If you need somewhere to meet an appraiser for your priceless treasures? There’s a Starbucks coffee store with a table in case you don’t want to meet at your house where they’ll case the joint. Don’t blame Starbucks if your silver treasure is pot iron.

 

If you want to blame Starbucks for anything, blame them for making a consistent cup of coffee around the world. A rose is a rose is a rose, but when I visited Shakespeare’s hometown I knew coffee in tea-time England wasn’t coffee. It was Sanka.

 

An experienced traveler knows their destination, and more important, is flexible enough to work in some fly by the seat of their pants time. In Stratford on the Avon I wanted Shakespeare until I saw Starbucks. Traffic was slow in my lane, slow enough for my wife to jump out and tuck and roll while I cruised the gut, turned around, and picked her up with a venti house in one hand, a grande latte in the other.

 

After my last double Sanka any brewed coffee would have been a step up, but a Starbucks cup was the jackpot.

 

My Starbucks feelings took a hit with the news from Philadelphia where two guys got handcuffed and led out while they waited for there for someone they were meeting. It’s the sort of thing that happens all of the time, ‘Meet me at Starbucks.’

 

It used to be, ‘Meet me at the bar’ until enough people went through AA, rehab, DUI, or all of them that a common coffee place on every city street corner was an inevitable social evolution.

 

How will the company that once owned the Seattle Supersonics, until a slick operator from Oklahoma fetched them away, deal with this public relations challenge.

 

Witnesses in the place at the time said the guys had done nothing wrong; the manager said they didn’t buy anything; the police commissioner stands by his officers.

 

From cnn.com:
The employees told officers the two men wanted to use the restroom but were told the facilities are only for paying customers. The Starbucks employees then asked the men to leave, but they refused, Ross said.
Officers responded and asked the men three times “politely to leave the location because they were being asked to leave by employees because they were trespassing.” When the men again refused to leave, they were arrested “without incident,” Ross said.
The men were taken to a police station and released when it became clear Starbucks didn’t want to press charges.
“They did a service that they were called to do,” Ross said of the officers. “And if you think about it logically, that if a business calls and they say that someone is here that I no longer wish to be in my business, (officers) now have a legal obligation to carry out their duties. And they did just that.”
Ross, who is black, referenced his own experiences while making his case, saying, “As an African-American male, I am very aware of implicit bias.”
And now, so is Starbucks.
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