“Yeah. Jackie Mason had a line about paying $5 for burnt coffee in a paper cup.”
I’ll never get the reason behind the popularity of Starbucks. Burnt over roasted coffee in paper cups. Yet, the lines to get the stuff are long and awful. My lovely wife is hooked and at 100° she’s in line at Starbucks.
According to a clerk at my local Starbuck’s, fewer than 10% of customers are ordering the crappy burnt coffee in a paper cup. They’re all standing in line to get one (or more) of those elaborate coffee-based desserts in a cup. It’s all whipped cream, caramel, chocolate chips, syrups, etc. Many of their customers aren’t even coffee drinkers.