I'm a bit of a coffee snob, I make my own cold brew with beans from NM, and espresso with a rotation of local coffees. But I still go to starbucks, nothing beats its convenience. I can order on my phone and simply walk in and grab my coffee off the counter, its so easy. And their rewards program gives you lots of free drinks. I don't get this, the only $5 coffees at starbucks are fancy thing like cold brew ($4.55 btw). A cup of hot drip coffee is like $1.20. Plain coffee is not expensive there.
The most popular drink at Starbucks several years ago according to Howard Schultz was a tall latte which is like $3 at the least, I think, isn't? Of course that was years ago -- not sure what the most popular is now. That's like $600-800 a year for a 5 day work week, I think, for coffee. For me, even $1.20 a day (assuming a work week) is a lot. I bought a Keurig and am finding paying $0.70 a cup/pod or more per day on some of the coffees a bit too much. I think I can get the Walmart variety for 33-50 cents, though. To possibly save money (?), I'm thinking about buying beans and grinding them next since I already have a grinder. Hell, if I could grow my own coffee plants, I'd go that route. I honestly don't have anything against people doing it -- I just don't get it. Hell, I know I do a lot of crap and spend money on things people don't get. lol. People I used to work with would just buy the fancy coffee and use an AeroPress at work. I admit, the coffee tasted good, but then it was somewhat pricey coffee, too. For me, there's a tradeoff somewhere in there among convenience, price, and taste.
My only point was sometimes people think a cup of coffee at starbucks is so much more expensive than like McDonalds, when it really isn't. If you are buying coffee anywhere every day, its gonna get expensive. But if you need a coffee in a pinch, starbucks is always the easiest option. Back in law school, I lived next door to a starbucks and it would be faster for me to order from them and walk outside to get it than it was to make my own coffee lol. That was the most regularly I ever got coffee at a coffee shop.
part of it is also overall health benefits. I started getting headache and stomach problems as I’ve gotten older and the two Things that have helped the most are vitamins/supplements (magnesium and vitamin b/d and a multi, plus a detox supplement) and interestingly giving up the coffee. I love the way it tastes though.
I gave up coffee completely for about 2-3 years. Which is amazing since I only got around 3-4 hours of sleep back in those days. Then, one day I smelled some coffee brewing in the breakroom at work and completely fell off the wagon. No idea why it happened that day since I had smelled it before. For some reason, I just had to have some coffee that day... 2-3 years after my last cup.
Are there negative health effects to drinking coffee? Not talking about the sugared up flavored versions, just straight up black coffee. Everything I've seen about it has been positive health-wise.
I had a female headhunter try to set up a meeting at Chili's, I had her reschedule at their office instead but made a bet with myself about her body type and definitely won.
That reminds me I need to go to a Starbucks for work. I'm a design consultant for one of their rivals and my clients wanted me to check out how their drive thrus work.
The younger lawyers in my office and assistants always has Starbucks. The oldest attorney once was walking past a young male and female associate attorney when they half being dicks asked the oldest attorney if he “ever stopped for Starbucks”.... with a look of disgust he said “No.”.... they raised an eyebrow and asked him why and he said to the female attorney “because I have a wife” which caused her to storm into my office. Fun times. He works from his own office we rent him now... it is close to his home and actually costs very little to do. We are trying to get him to work permanently from home now because of COVID.
If people are addicted to caffeine, why don't they just take caffeine pills instead? Seems a faster, cheaper, more efficient way of getting the stimulant.
