Now let me get this straight. If you order your coffee black you sayin' that makes you a racist? Somehow I'm just not understanding it, see?
Posted on 03/18/2015 7:42:39 AM PDT by C19fan
Twitter has ruthlessly mocked Starbucks campaign for the company's new anti-racism campaign in which baristas talk to customers about race issues while serving their coffee. One user tweeted, 'I don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you & still make my train', while another pointed out, 'y'all realize there are no coloured hands in the press photos right'. A third speculated, 'maybe Starbucks actually wanted to get people of all races & ethnicities to join hands and make fun'.
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Do you remember when companies focused on making a product and selling it to customers? Those were good times.
Quite.
When I want _coffee_, I don’t immediately think of going to a place that specializes in _hamburgers_ or _donuts_ and charges nearly as much for a cup, with nowhere near the variations. I don’t want to get it in an environment that’s pushing sodas and burgers and other grossness, and serving it in an environment unsuitable for my frame of mind.
SBX at least acknowledges there are many different kinds of beans, roasts, and desirable contaminants*; there’s nuances of making it that differentiate a clerk pulling a pot from a cup vs what makes a “barista”. If you’re aware of those differences and can articulate preferences therein, and want to buy & enjoy it within an environment filled with like-minded people, you’re their intended customers - a very profitable base to serve.
“Would you like fries with that?” is a good sign you won’t find an artful cup there.
(* - tall, dark, black. Methinks if you need other stuff in it, it’s not worth drinking.)
The CEO specifically said to replace any cups with objected-to writing.
Now let me get this straight. If you order your coffee black you sayin' that makes you a racist? Somehow I'm just not understanding it, see?
I just hate the whole culture of Starbucks.
When I get coffee, I say coffee, pay and leave.
Typical white girls and hipsters get some kinda concoction that is 10 words long that I can’t pronounce, then takes 128 pictures of it and loads them onto the webs with 1million other pictures of hipsters with their coffee.
“I got a coffee today, look, it has my name on it” hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag
OK wait, I must first look at the other million people who have done the exact same thing today.
Fortunately, in the Starbucks model environment, that's physically impossible.
Perhaps you're speaking metaphorically?
What is SBX?
They could slip a roofy in there.
Just reply that you like your coffee black - like your women.
:^)
The phrase you need, should you ever find yourself in a Starbucks, is “tall dark black”. That’s it. Strong coffee without contaminants (which you can put in yourself at a table nearby). Order, pay, done.
Starbucks.
Having never “darkened” their door, how does one order “chocolate” milk for my son?
As though people don’t wait long enough for their coffee without this bull. What were they thinking?
You’d be labeled a racist if you order a white coffee ....
Just what I need in the morning; some brainless 20-something year old lecturing me on Race.
I haven’t stepped foot in Starbucks since they went anti-gun rights. I won’t spend my money in places that want me to be defenseless.
F*** ‘em.
Best day for Dunkin Donuts ever.
30% increase in prices in the last 4 years makes this really comical.
Stealing Omugabe's template for administrative excellence!
I wonder if S$s ever caught on that every time that they jack up their prices I cut back on consumption?
As an aside, the best line I have seen so far on these starbucks threads is...
By all means, let's talk; I want to discuss the finer points of the "knockout game..." or "efficient carjacking."
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