It once had five.
They have gone bankrupt before.
America has over 500.
According to the google there are 6 in Canada. The one in my city closed awhile ago.
shareA lot of food franchises that are popular in the USA fail in Australia. We have different tastes, we don't like your coffee either.
shareI'm in the USA, and I buy coffee green then roast and grind it myself. Much better that way. You've got me curious, what sort of coffee is popular in Australia?
That's cool. I was thinking more about coffee franchise places and that peculator style coffee where it sits in the jug.
Down here most people prefer independent cafe's to Starbucks etc. I personally like espresso style coffee, long or short black usually. Cappuccinos and Cafe Latte's are popular down here in cafes for most people.
We don't tend to get into all the flavoring's that I see the USA generally like to add.
I think Starbucks is overrated. They make good coffee but it's hardly the ambrosia its fans claim it to be. I've bought their whole bean coffee sometimes at the grocery when I wasn't in the mood to roast my own, but even then I'm more likely to get Peet's instead. And the concoctions some people order at the Starbucks franchises are quite bizarre. I'll sometimes add chocolate milk and a little sugar to make what I suppose is mochaccino but that's as exotic as I get.
Since I'm talking about roasting coffee I'll give a plug to my vendor: https://www.sweetmarias.com/
They sell all sorts of green beans, not just Colombian and the like but also African and from other places. I tried some of those but ended up sticking with the South American variety of coffee I'm more familiar with.
I use this roaster, which costs about $200: https://www.sweetmarias.com/fresh-roast-sr540.html
It took me a few tries to get it right, but it's not terribly difficult to do. I saw someone online describe roasting coffee as "harder than boiling an egg, easier than making an omelet." That sounds about right.
For anyone reading this and considering buying a roaster, I'll pass on something I discovered early. Those Old World kaffee meisters could tell from odor, color, et cetera when the coffee is roasted enough, but for the rest of us a thermometer is an absolute necessity: https://www.sweetmarias.com/digital-thermometer-for-coffee-roasting-with-k-type-thermocouple.html
I'm amazed at the long lines (sometimes 15 or 20 cars) of drones sitting in the drive through, waiting for a $6.00 cup of coffee. If you're dead set on it, going inside is 10 times quicker. Idiots.
share"If you're dead set on it, going inside is 10 times quicker."
But that would require getting out of the car and walking. These people expect instant gratification without exerting any effort. Our society is becoming so dumbed-down, entitled and lazy. It will be our downfall.
I don't drink coffee, but even if I did, I would never go to a Starbucks. Six dollars for a cup of liquid mud? They can keep it along with their snobby attitude.
> Six dollars for a cup of liquid mud? They can keep it along with their snobby attitude.
Roasting my own coffee, I pay about fifteen cents per cup, and what I get is much better than theirs.
I only order tall beverages - $3.95 or a little more depending on the flavor - it's a treat. Venti's are way too may calories for me.
shareThat's what is so funny to me. They want it now but are too lazy to go inside and get in in a fraction of the time, so they wait 20 minutes in the drive through. Like I said, drones.
I like coffee. I spend 8 or 9 dollars on a tin of coffee and it lasts me a month and a half and it's every bit as good or better.
What snobby attitude? Overall, I think they are very friendly.
shareI'm mainly talking about the clientele. Those yuppie/hipster types who patronize the place solely for the name, because it's "trendy" or because some celebrity was photographed carrying a Starbucks cup.
There have been taste test surveys conducted and even McDonald's gets rated higher than Starbucks.
And I couldn't agree more about McDonald's coffee - it's the best IMO, but as previously mentioned - I never buy just brewed coffee at Starbucks - I like the specialty beverages.
shareI didn't go inside Starbucks before I was fully vaccinated. I still like the drive through if the line isn't too long or not cold/wet outside.
shareI don't like Starbucks brewed coffee, but I love their lattes and Frappuccinos.
shareDo Aussies drink more tea than coffee? I haven't bought Folgers, Yuban, Maxwell House etc. coffee in 30 years...
shareI prefer Twin Peaks over Hooters.
shareHooters is a dipshit business model anyway. If you want to go to a tittee bar go to a tittee bar, not some PG shitshow that serves boxed food.
sharelol yeah very true. Why eat crap food whilst getting yourself all frustrated and teased only to end up at the tittie bar anyway.
shareThe tittie bar doesn't have 20 big screen TVs to see all the games, and I like Hooters' chicken wings (although everything else is inedible)
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