Starbucks doesn't even brew coffee anymore?!?
I initially asked the person at the counter if they do pour over coffee. Looking confused, he turned around and kinda looked at the menu board, and then looked back at me, and said "uh, no, I don't think so" in a somewhat indifferent but confused look, as though he had never heard of pour over coffee. I said that's fine, regular brewed will be fine.
So he walks over to this lonely machine in the corner that looks like a supercharged Keurig machine, pushes a button, and 30 seconds later out comes my "coffee". I notice water on top of the lid, so I pop the lid off. It's just water with some brown further down in the cup.
Now, I'll be honest, at this point, I didn't go back to the counter for a refund. I'm sure that would have just been a ruckus, because who goes to get a refund at a coffee shop? I just set it in the garbage and moved on.
So the most well known coffee roaster and retailer in the world doesn't even properly brew and properly extract the flavor out of their (over-roasted and somewhat burnt tasting) coffee? They just make it like a Keurig (which by the way is also garbage)?
I understand that people just need their caffeine, and how it comes doesn't really matter, and that's cool. But if one goes somewhere that has proper coffee products and "baristas", then they should put some effort into making a proper cup of coffee.
Have we come to a place in our society that we have just dumbed everything down, and charged more to do it? Come on! Expect and demand better.
It's one of the most basic parts of most people's lives every morning. Do it right, Starbucks! It's...
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