tinycowboy
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Zero hours. Tell you why - I don't like coffee.
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Coffee shop culture - how long do you spend in Costa etc ?
I really wish you hadn't said that. The image it conjures up is very vivid. Have you ever taken a bathtub for a ride down a hill in the Dales?
Perfidious Albion
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Caffe Nero fans in this household. Mrs P A is never happier & it is cheaper than going to a bar.
Iindependants are, in my experience, of uncertain quality & around here they closed up for ages after Christmas. At least you know what to expect at a chain
Coffee, the drink that sustains, stimulates and makes the world seem a better place....
Iindependants are, in my experience, of uncertain quality & around here they closed up for ages after Christmas. At least you know what to expect at a chain
Coffee, the drink that sustains, stimulates and makes the world seem a better place....
CorgiRegisteredFriend
Well-known member
If I had to choose a chain it would be Pret. This is because the food is fresh- or at least tastes fresher. For some reason though they don't do large take aways as in for drinks.
Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
- 9,174
Costa are EXTREMELY hot on their audits and taking away franchises if they fail so you can be sure a Costa is done to their specifications if you have one. Whether you like it or not is a different matter.
Bob!
Coffee Buyer
- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,159
Costa don't do franchises?
I use this place
"Perhaps Ralf Rüller – who has banned pushchairs and prams from his Berlin café – is really on to something. Far from being the "socially incorrect affront to families" that critics have labelled his policy, the idea of a pushchair-free cafe sounds quite brilliant."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/12/no-babyccinos-berlin-cafe-pushchair-ban
"Perhaps Ralf Rüller – who has banned pushchairs and prams from his Berlin café – is really on to something. Far from being the "socially incorrect affront to families" that critics have labelled his policy, the idea of a pushchair-free cafe sounds quite brilliant."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/12/no-babyccinos-berlin-cafe-pushchair-ban
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
Tesco's Eastbourne they do
love M&S flat white nearly as good as Starbucks ...............but until they start paying the proper taxes I will give them a miss
Dick Swiveller
Well-known member
- Sep 9, 2011
- 9,174
Maybe the wrong word but there are Costa Outlets in places other than Costa shops. Garages, Leisure Centres etc.
gregbrighton
New member
I like Costa. The coffee isn't brilliant but the staff are friendly. I hate Starbucks with the asking your name thing.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,220
I don't drink coffee so never (should have been an option)
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
But you can have fun with that, calling yourself Xexes, Aslan, Thor or Ming The Mercilless etc.
Hampster Gull
New member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,462
Its a nonsense most times. Been asked whenthere is no one else in the place
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Never. Nope never. Would never. Never will. Why. Coffee is 20p cup so why pay £3 for a frothy thing. No chance, never. I've stood outside once and used their wi/fi though!
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,349
dont drink much but has to be Nero by preference. as far as im aware their reward scheme is to give you decent, strong coffee in exchange for £2.10. Starbucks are the worst, watery, bland brown liquid.
about 10 years late with the "are coffee shops the new pubs" question, and the answer is yes for a lot of people.
about 10 years late with the "are coffee shops the new pubs" question, and the answer is yes for a lot of people.
Fitzcarraldo
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- Nov 12, 2010
- 961
Did you read the article? Does that make you one of the "smug, tedious, needlessly-reverent, jazz xylophone-playing, coffee-fetishising hipster dullards that have taken the place of the pushchairs"?
Fitzcarraldo
Well-known member
- Nov 12, 2010
- 961
I usually try and use a smaller place, non-chain, if possible. There was a place in Bermondsey near where I used to live called ****offe. I liked going there because of the name. But I don't mind using any of them really. Maybe if I was given a choice of Starbucks or Costa I would choose Costa because of Starbucks tax arrangement, but who is to say if Costa's is any better? The biggest thing is when they charge over, or almost, £3 for a coffee. That is what would stop me going someplace.
What I want to know is when there is going to be a backlash against all the places charging embarrassingly high prices for a coffee, a place that sells £1 drinkable coffee rather than a £3 organic, hand picked by the virgins of Colombia, style affair. That's where I would go.
What I want to know is when there is going to be a backlash against all the places charging embarrassingly high prices for a coffee, a place that sells £1 drinkable coffee rather than a £3 organic, hand picked by the virgins of Colombia, style affair. That's where I would go.
