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No, I didn't. That's why I was asking, your royal smugness.
Haha. Oh, now... was name calling necessary?
And, it appears you answered your own q.
Take it easy with the caffeine & have a wonderfully bold weekend.
I stopped at a Starbucks last evening for dessert. I wanted to be able to fall sleep fairly early, so I asked for my coffee to be DECAF. Other people who were behind me in line were getting their beverages first. Turns out Starbucks has to individually make the decaf. Took several minutes extra. The barista said it was some kind of "pour over method" to decaffeinate it. It just felt like I made her do extra work for my decaf. I didn't ask her, but: Wouldn't it make sense for Starbucks to keep a pot of decaf coffee brewing in the evening hours???
I guess I am not getting the problem...they didn't refuse you your decafe.....they simply had to make it by the cup because that area doesn't get a lot of call for it late.
All this stuff about there not being enough business at Starbucks to brew a pot of decafe is just B.S. How do I know? They stopped making it at my local starbucks. But I still see a lot of requests. One day I saw the manager tell a few customers "If we get enough requests - we'll start brewing it". So I piped in "they won't request it if they know you don't have it" and I told her I no longer come in the mornings because they don't have it (I was there for an iced decafe in the afternoon).
So she restarted it. And when I go, I see them make a fresh pot. Twenty minutes later I go for a refill and it's empty. It's empty most of the time. And I see lots of requests and know a lot of people that feel they way I do. And I know many of the customers, and there is a large segment unhappy about "pour overs".
So why don't they serve it? Could be they are trying to simplify it's operations, could be they are trying to force customers to try the espesso machine decafe (tastes watery) or the drip (cold and watery), or it could be a decafe drinkers get more free refills. In either case it's short sighted if I don't go for my decafe, my friends don't go to meet there, I don't spend money on other things, I go to McDonalds or DD. I now go about half as much, because they make it in a smaller window of time.
Lets face it every single dinner, fast food restaurant, within a 100 miles of me serves brewed decafe - so why not Starbucks?
Some people in this thread equate a "pour over" with real coffee. You can make make a pour over at home or in your hotel room with a $1.00 piece of plastic, why would you go to Starbucks for a "Pour Over"?
First off, the coffee sits, while they literally wait for the coffee to drain, and then they pour some more, because it takes a few pours to make a grande. So by the time you get it, it isn't hot, its been sitting. What's worse is they often forget about it and you. It's over there on he side out of sight out of mind.
There is no brewing. So there is no body to the coffee. Tastes like the old instant coffee in a teaspoon that you mix with hot water.
So you wait 5-10 minutes (usually I have to remind someone that it's sitting there and I haven't been served), for a cold, watery cup of coffee. Why even bother? Just go to DD's McD's, or your local dinner who have fresh brewed decafe 100% of the time, and if they don't have a fresh pot they will make one for you. I don't really understand Starbucks marketing strategy here except to say "go some place else". Do they still make Sanka? It's just as good/maybe better than a "pour over".
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