Do you serve coffee?
I think, that from now on, every time I enter a coffee shop, my first question will be "Hi, do you still serve coffee?". One day, I just know it, I'll get the answer I dread above anything else: "Oh, no sir, we don't serve coffee any more. We just serve { freddos OR frappaccinos OR frappes ) and carmel lattes." That will also be the day I will define "going postal" in a coffee context.
I am so incredibly sick and tired of all the stupid blended ice coffee smoothies... when will this god awful trend of liking-the-image-of-drinking-coffee-but-too-wimpy-to-actually-drink-coffee end? I'd say 75% of the people that walk into my store say something along these lines: "Hi, I want something cold. And sweet. I don't really like coffee." My gut reaction is "Sir or ma'am, do you realize you walked into a coffee shop? We sell coffee here. Coldstone is two stores down the way. They sell cold and sweet things. They even have a "coffee latte" flavor that tastes nothing like coffee." Of course, my reaction is one of bouncy pleasantness: "Well we have iced mochas and carmel lattes and freddos which are sweetened smoothie type things." Of course, every time I say this I die a little more.
I'm immensely offended that Peet's has jumped onto the high-sugar-injection-mask-the-coffee bandwagon. That's what stood it apart from Starbuck's, and now its just another wanna-be. Its a corporate chain, chasing after market share, busy alienating their hardcore customers in favor of those with a trend-sense and sweet tooth.
So much for working for a cool, small, local artisan coffee business. "Do you want whip cream on that?"
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