Let's Have a Beer...At Starbucks!

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Seems the company, under a different name, is going to try serving up booze along with the coffee and tea. What kind of Frappicinos might they make?

Starbucks Corp. said Thursday it is wiping its name from one of its Seattle-area stores and adding alcohol to the menu. The Seattle-based gourmet coffee chain said it is changing the name of one of its existing stores in its hometown to a name that reflects the neighborhood location. The store will be called 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea. It will open next week and will serve coffee and tea as well as wine and beer.

The company said it will then open two more Seattle-area stores without the Starbucks name in locations that aren't currently Starbucks stores. The chain said if the rethought coffee shop is a success it will consider replicating it in other cities. "It's interesting," said Morningstar analyst R.J. Hottovy, "especially since the Starbucks brand has been such an integral part of their success."

Full story here.

 

[slyc_willie]

Now that they've cornered the market in coffee houses, they want to branch out and dominate cheap beer and wine distributorships?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

What? Starbucks opened coffee-terias in hopes of recreating the European coffee house with its alleged Romance, Kultur and Literary Aspirations. Now they're trying to reinvent the pub?

 

[slyc_willie]

What? Starbucks opened coffee-terias in hopes of recreating the European coffee house with its alleged Romance, Kultur and Literary Aspirations. Now they're trying to reinvent the pub?

Don't you know? Dr. Evil is behind this . . . Mwuahahahaha . . . .

 

[R. Richard]

In most of the bars I visit in the course of my business, the standard order is a shot and a beer. I presume that such and order at the 'Starbucks pub' would run two times $4.95. In most of the bars I visit, that charge would cause physical violence.

 

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In most of the bars I visit in the course of my business, the standard order is a shot and a beer. I presume that such and order at the 'Starbucks pub' would run two times $4.95. In most of the bars I visit, that charge would cause physical violence.

But Starbucks has great music to keep you mellow and happy. Not to mention good pastries.

 

[Handley_Page]

But Starbucks has great music to keep you mellow and happy. Not to mention good pastries.

Rather like Lyon's Corner House

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Theyve re-invented the wheel.

When I was a kid we had a gas-station, bread & milk grocery, tavern-pub in our rural community. My grandfather and I walked there at night to get milk & bread and he had a beer and I had a Grapette or orange NEHI.