Starbucks — Restaurant in Lakewood

Wow, never been treated so poorly at a Starbucks before. There were 2 ladies working... well, one was working while the other one was chatting with the one other customer, ignoring me completely, and when another guy showed up she suggest him and focused on him (hopefully an employee as he went behind the bar). I wanted to get a half a cup of drip coffee in my own mug. The 2 stars is for for fact at least I got my coffee. I was not given an apology for the long wait, the other lady never said anything to me, and when I was 8 cents short I was scoffed at. I have been before and it was never like that before. Unfortunately it is near my work, but in the future if they are there I'm walking out and going to the other shop across the street. I pray if I have to stop here again that their treatment will inspire me to update this....

Tl;dr: Mediocre overpriced coffee with a HEAVY dose of surveillance capitalism.

So coffee and wifi should be pretty easy to do.

Except the Google snoop wifi service at this location blocks all VPNs and TOR connections.

So you'll of course enjoy sharing all your data and work information and maybe your banking logins with Google and Starbucks corporate so they can carefully track everything you do to attempt sell you a $9 Christmas mug before selling your profile to Amazon and Facebook and maybe Doubleclick for extra money.

Or maybe another coffee patron can just MIM attack you and steal that information for themselves.

Massive opsec fail renders a waste of an entire Starbucks.

Yuk. Will...

I am severely lactose intolerant. The smallest amount of dairy will trigger painful IBS symptoms. But, I do like a coffee treat now and then. I was using the drive thru for my order. The creme brulee latte (a special flavor for the holidays) looked tasty, so I placed my order, specifying soy milk and no whip, but then commented, "unless you have some dairy free whip cream." A second voice popped in on the speaker, and informed me that the creme brulee flavoring isn't just a flavored syrup like most other flavors, but contains milk powder in it, and suggested a few holiday syrups as alternatives. I ended up with a very tasty chestnut praline soy latte and no digestive issues. I was...