re: Starbucks to close stores, lay off workers in $1 billion restructuring plan

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Starbucks was doomed as soon as people started believing "barista" was an esteemed title and career choice. You pour fricking coffee in a cup at a place with a drive through.

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I had coffee at a Starbucks recently to catch up with an old friend who was laid off in the spring. She spent a decade as a journalist and then a decade doing communications for F500 execs before taking a moonshot at a startup, which failed in year 2.

She is very bright, very personable and adaptable. She was having such a tough time getting in front of people for jobs that she applied at Starbucks just to have cash flow and had her application declined. Lol.

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How often do you go to Starbucks?

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I try to avoid Starbucks like to plague. They won't get a dime of my money.

I only intentionally go to Starbucks if I end up with a Starbucks gift card from a white elephant party or something like that, because they've already gotten paid for that gift card so it only gives them free revenue without any expenses if I don't use it.

Email job girl bosses don't have any cash left for starbucks and pilates class?!?

I drink black coffee and used to love starbucks and always get it. But it’s always painfully slow and the coffee is often burnt or not even hot.

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quote:Starbucks to close stores, lay off workers Gonna be a lot of jobless trans

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I’d bet none of the unionized Starbucks survive this restructuring.

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How often do you go to Starbucks?

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Honestly, once or twice at this point. To grab a seasonal latte. But they’ve gotten pretty stale with the flavors/drinks they release in that regard too. They no longer release the Gingerbread Latte or Eggnog Latte here either.

I mostly drink black coffee with a little flavored creamer these days. At home.

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How often do you go to Starbucks?

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I went to one back in 1998. Haven't been back...

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I’d bet none of the unionized Starbucks survive this restructuring.

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Oddly enough the union one on Sherwood is surprisingly busy. Or maybe it just looks that way because they are slow.

Serving coffee is not a viable long term career plan unless you own the land it's made on, the equipment that is used to make it, or the brand on the sign (or all three). There just isn't that much margin even with charging $7 for a drink, and the employees are always on their feet which will be a problem as they age.

That union BS is a political thing and not based in reality.

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people started believing "barista" was an esteemed title and career choice.

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Barista is derived from the ancient Greek, originally meaning philosophy major.

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We stopped going bc we have a CCs near us. We plan on moving to the north shore soon so what’s the place to go there?

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CC's is usually good but slow to expand
PJ's is consistent
7 Brew in Hammond, I'm sure coming to Covington soon - I'm a big fan of this one.
There is a CDM in Mandeville for the beignet fix
Dutch Bros will probably be somewhere along 190 soon

There are at least 2 independent coffee places in downtown Covington too, but one of them has a very Starbucks vibe when it comes to employees. Not knocking that since the folks who look like they could be Transtifa terrorists also seem to make some badass coffee.

Thomas Stanley or Dave Ramsey would want me to say "make coffee at home!!!"