Starbucks's Good coffee for 100 Baht

[Samsonite 188]

Oh, we've been bashing Starbucks for over a decade. I lived in the San Francisco/Berkeley area, where local coffee houses were family run outfits, not chains, and Starbucks managed to put many of them out of business....

 

That they did and they did it using some pretty underhanded tactics.

Some good friends built from scratch a small chain of coffee shops, one in a landmark San Francisco hotel, plus their own roaster, and they were also involved in the office service end of the business. When they first started I helped to literally build the first store (interior), plus showed them how to take inventory, keep their books, etc. They had all the coffee making gadgets and were one of the first to sell, in the "modern era," bulk candies out those huge old fashion glass jars. They were selling "Gummy Bears" from Germany before most people in the U.S. had ever heard of Gummy Bears, chocolate "ladybugs" from Switzerland, etc.

They did well enough to move the original store from Fillmore to around the corner directly on California Street. One day the landlord came in and said he had just been approached by a lawyer representing a company called, "Starbucks." They said they would paid the landlord a "bonus" to throw them (my friends) out so they could have the location and would be willing to pay considerable more rent. The landlord, surprisingly, told Starbucks to go pound sand.

The world is big enough that those type of tactics are not necessary, but greed, as they say, knows no bounds.

[gs joe 1,788]

When I want a cup of coffee, I just want a regular cup of coffee. I don't need 2 dozen different brews and the bottom line is that I absolutely refuse to pay 100 baht for any cup of coffee. Trendy shit means nothing to me.

 

Agree , Big D and the rest of the Yuppie types can keep it ,

 

Joe

[BigDUSA 71]

Agree , Big D and the rest of the Yuppie types can keep it ,

 

Joe

 

What's wrong with choice? Where I live Starbuck's offer three varieties of brewed coffee every day. One blend of coffee is always the same. Personally I like to try different blends. Some I like. Some I don't.

[BigDUSA 71]

Oh, we've been bashing Starbucks for over a decade. I lived in the San Francisco/Berkeley area, where local coffee houses were family run outfits, not chains, and Starbucks managed to put many of them out of business.

 

No Starbucks will ever compete with Caffe Trieste in San Francisco's North Beach...great coffee, history, and stimulating environment.

 

From the Wiki...

 

The Caffé Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement writers like Lawrence Ferlinghetti (still a regular), Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan,Bob Kaufman, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth and Neeli Cherkovski, who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s.^[2]Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of San Francisco, has also been a regular patron. The Caffe has been featured in several movies, on television, radio, in magazines, and in many photography books, ranging from local to national and international in scope.^[3][4]Francis Ford Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather while sitting in the Caffé Trieste. Its is also the home of the internationally chronicled Caffe Trieste Saturday Concert, the longest running show in the City of San Francisco (since 1971). Giotta Family members Papa Gianni, Ida (matron) and children Gianfranco (1944-1999), Sonia and Fabio have set-up a musical vibe with their performances at the Caffes and about Northern California and beyond, starting with their first radio appearance on KYA-AM (on Dean "Buddha" Maddux' Amateur Hour, sponsored by Marin Dell Milk) in the SF Bay Area in 1953. That vibe has attracted many famous artists and entertainment personalities that have visited or frequented the North Beach location: Bill Cosby, Joey Reynolds, Michael Douglas, Chris Isaak, Armando Peraza, Paul Kantner, Boz Scaags, Robert Vaughn, and Vincent Price to name a few. In 2009, for example, Israeli poet Roy Arad visited the cafe and wrote about it in his diary [2]. It remains a favorite destination for writers, artists, hipsters, neighborhood residents, and tourists from all over the world. The Giotta Family has performed for celebrities such as Luciano Pavarotti and Frankie Laine, and has produced several videos and record albums, operates a newly built Hollywood Class recording studio (TRIESTE RECORDING STUDIOS) and is producing a 90 minute documentary about founder and legend Papa Gianni Giotta, slated for release in 2012.

 

Starbuck's didn't put the local coffee shop out of business. Their customer's put them out of business. Starbuck's offered and continues to offer an excellent product and they charge a premium price for it. I and millions of other customer's are willing to pay the price for very good cup of coffee.

[jaxxon55 252]

Starbuck's didn't put the local coffee shop out of business. Their customer's put them out of business. Starbuck's offered and continues to offer an excellent product and they charge a premium price for it. I and millions of other customer's are willing to pay the price for very good cup of coffee.

 

We certainly agree on this Big D. Unlike the club sandwiches.Many people are waiting to get in Starbucks when they open every morning at soi 13/1. Millions of people can't all be wrong.

Jack

[steamer 158]

Was looking at a Starbucks bit on 60 minutes a while back. They claim to have over 50,000 possible combinations available. You may find the price higher than you'd like but if you can't find something decent to drink then it's not Starbuck's fault.

[teelack 9,738]

POST: 1,000,000, Starbucks:

 

After totalling one million votes was decided that the Starbucks coffee in Thailand was over -priced at 100 baht.

 

American citizen jumps over Bali Hai Pier.

[JONPAT 223]

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I never patronize them here in Thailand. There are much better, and cheaper, alternatives.

 

Such as drink water, drink beer, go thirsty, .... come on: if you are going to deprecate a post then write up your alternatives. Other than McDonalds or Burger King or the coffee at Subway ( 29 baht-Soi Diane/Baukhoa) where would you get your morning cup of coffee.

[MM 6,562]

 

Such as drink water, drink beer, go thirsty, .... come on: if you are going to deprecate a post then write up your alternatives. Other than McDonalds or Burger King or the coffee at Subway ( 29 baht-Soi Diane/Baukhoa) where would you get your morning cup of coffee.

This was dealt with and responded to in the thread. Certainly not any of those places you mentioned.

[teelack 9,738]

Such as drink water, drink beer, go thirsty, .... come on: if you are going to deprecate a post then write up your alternatives. Other than McDonalds or Burger King or the coffee at Subway ( 29 baht-Soi Diane/Baukhoa) where would you get your morning cup of coffee.

 

In addition to my suggestion about the Buakow market coffee I also suggest you try the coffee at Jimmy Macs in Soi 6' A large mug is I think 35 baht and a full greasy brekkie is 110baht, bacon, eggs, sausage, toast,tomato, orange juice included. You can see why a 100 baht coffee at Starfucks hardly thrills me.

[Montydog 135]

Such as drink water, drink beer, go thirsty, .... come on: if you are going to deprecate a post then write up your alternatives. Other than McDonalds or Burger King or the coffee at Subway ( 29 baht-Soi Diane/Baukhoa) where would you get your morning cup of coffee.

 

We obviously have a gastronome in our midst.

[Yzi 72]

i think the picture says it all...

[yselmike 411]

You guys who can just walk out your home or work place and step into a place that serves you fresh hot

coffee have no Idea how lucky you are,stop whining 100baht a coffee is cheap even a starbucks espresso

is perfectly drinkable,I have to get on my bike and ride 2km to get any sort of caffiene fix so I got a nespresso

machine so I can get a half decent cup of coffee.

[Severn 109]

If you are talking of good coffee............

[Guest Fatboyfat]

If you are talking of good coffee............

Strewth!!...My grandfather used to swear by that stuff. The rest of the family thought it was bloody awful; however, I didn't realise it actually had coffee beans as part of its make up. Haven't seen it around for decades now.

[Guest Fatboyfat]

I wonder if the Starfux in Pattaya is paying it's taxes ?

[yselmike 411]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/tullys-coffee-struggles-against-a-venti-starbucks-tide.html

[yselmike 411]

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=Aeropress&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=4244798419831759569&sa=X&ei=nJ6GUJrPG9KX0QXLq4HIBA&ved=0CDEQ8wIwAQ&output=nojs

[BigDUSA 71]

I wonder if the Starfux in Pattaya is paying it's taxes ?

 

What is a Starfux and what does it have to do with topic?

[gs joe 1,788]

Strewth!!...My grandfather used to swear by that stuff. The rest of the family thought it was bloody awful; however, I didn't realise it actually had coffee beans as part of its make up. Haven't seen it around for decades now.

 

Takes me back as well ,do agree, the brand put me of coffee for years ,

 

Joe

[Guest Fatboyfat]

What is a Starfux and what does it have to do with topic?

Obviously it needs spelling out for a "Cambridge Scholar of note"

[ZARIS 20]

They need to change the name from Starbucks to Fivebucks........Price is just stupid!

 

IMAHO

 

in Sydney reasonable coffee STARTS @ $3.50 nd thats for a cup about half the size you get in USA.

 

you want expensive- try living in OZ

[9cisco999 107]

I recall one place in SAn Francisco where there were 4 Starbucks within a ONE block distance.

 

An article I read about Starbucks some time back said the companies policy was that a community could support a Starbuck's outlet per each 15,000 inhabitants.

[BigDUSA 71]

Obviously it needs spelling out for a "Cambridge Scholar of note"

 

Not only does it need spelling out and you haven't managed to do it. Try again.

[samfreeland 64]

Thailand makes some pretty exotic coffee themselves. .http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/9632934/Thai-hotel-offers-up-coffee-made-from-elephant-dung.html