From: komos	Date: December 17th, 2002 09:15 am (UTC)		(Link)

There's a "Starbuck's Way?"

That has the potential to be very creepy.

	From: jaimek	Date: December 17th, 2002 09:27 am (UTC)		(Link)
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Yes. There is a way to do just about everything in the store that doesn't make much sense, but it's the "starbuck's way"

	From: komos	Date: December 17th, 2002 09:35 am (UTC)		(Link)

I suppose that includes being friendly "clients"?
I knew that cute French barrista wasn't really flirting...

	From: komos	Date: December 17th, 2002 09:35 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Cursed editing

sorry... "to "clients""

	From: jaimek	Date: December 17th, 2002 10:03 am (UTC)		(Link)
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I think so. They always wanted us to remember regular customers orders, which I refused to do because I felt that that limits cutomers freedom to change their minds and order something new. Or that was just my excuse for having a really poor memory. Besides, why would I want to clutter my mind with some Beacon Hill snob's coffee order.

But one good thing they do is offer health insurance to part-time workers (20hrs +/week) as well as their domestic partner.

	From: komos	Date: December 17th, 2002 10:22 am (UTC)		(Link)

Heh. I go to the "ghetto" Starbucks at Downtown Crossing. With the exception of one or two of the folks behind the counter, they're a pretty surly lot. Fewer Beacon Hill snobs and more students/bike courier types lead to a different adaptation, I guess.

To give props where due, they're a step up from Dunkies because they can actually get an order right.