Starbucks — Restaurant in Walnut

This is easily my favorite Starbucks location, but it isn't without its shortcomings. This Starbucks has it all: an attentive, cheerful staff, speedy wifi, and...oh wait...there's no seats? The only downfall of this location is its seating availability. It isn't doing itself any favors by offering few chairs and tables to start with, but its proximity to two major universities, while a blessing, is also a curse. Most Starbucks locations have a steady flow of people coming and going. However, this location is crammed with college students for extended periods of time, leaving me to enjoy my overpriced (although I happily pay) cup of coffee standing up. Outdoor seating is offered, but the wifi's reach is less than desirable. Overall, this is a great location! Despite its one handicap of poor seating offerings, I'll keep coming back for those early-morning caffeine jump-starts and my late-night study cram sessions; if I can find a place to...

Servers are courteous at this Starbucks location but its coffee often tastes so light that makes us feel as if drinking plain water. We believe that what has caused this was probably that the store staff did not replenish the machine with fresh coffee beans as often as required. As a result, the coffee from the machine is over-diluted. We feel that the store staff should have strictly followed the professional procedure for coffee-brewing so that customers are not shortchanged. In the meantime, the store supervisor should have sample-tasted the coffee made from the brewers from time to time to monitor and ensure its quality. We have already made the store clerks aware of this issue a while ago, but the quality of coffee remains the same -- as light as water. We feel that measures of rectification are urgently needed from Starbucks central management so that consumers' interest is not...

Starbucks opened its first shop in 1971, and started expanding outside the Seattle area in 1987. At that time, coffee connoisseurs were rare in the US, and espresso was seldom found outside of Italian restaurants. Very rare people even knew the difference between espresso and coffee. At diners and donuts shops across the country, people drank generic, mass-produced and often weakly brewed coffee. generation of Americans has grown up with Starbucks as the better alternative to their grandparents’ coffee. Food critics aren’t big fans of Starbucks’ over-roasted beans – in fact, in blind taste-tests most people prefer McDonald’s – but the coffee is a definite improvement on what was standard before. It’s good enough, and that’s good enough for...