Meyerbeer Coffee - A German version of Starbucks

It is called Meyerbeer coffee and it is located just south of Marienplatz at Rindermarkt 15.

I was walking by and spotted the ever-so-familiar round logo on the cups through the window and couldn't believe my eyes. I had to go inside and check it out. What I found was uncanny.
A german version of Starbucks. It was as if someone has found the same supplier for everything in the store and based it off of pictures or something. It was complete with the evil smiling faces behind the kasse waiting to sell you coffee again and again and again.

This is Starbucks.
1. They offer the same menu choices for almost all the Starbucks selections.
2. The menu boards are in the same font.
3. The curved metal bar at the top of the menu boards with the metal letters 'Getrank' is also the same font.
4. There is the same glass shelf just to the right of the cashier filled with overpriced goodies to snack on.
5. There are four bins with coffee beans in them for you to play with. In the US, however, these are an educational tool showing the different stages of the process of baking the beans. Here, they just throw some in.
6. The sugar/cream/sweet'n low island is the same design.
7. The general architechture of the place is the same. The swoopy curved wood/brushed aluminum facad is everywhere.
8. They have shelves with many expensive coffee acoutrements that you never knew you needed till you smelled their product.
9. The round logo on the cups is exactly the same from 20 feet away. True, these are blue and not green but it still fools the casual observer.
10. This place is a WLAN & WiFi HotSpot just like in NYC!

I know it is not truely a starbucks, but it is just as evil.
Now I will be forced to go out of my way almost daily to get a Caramel Macchiato.

ps. My cup says:
16 oz. Special Design Hot Cup www.e-2go.net
Made by Solo Cup Co., Chicago IL. U.S.A.

bless them

The coffee in Cinema München is also Starbucks (but I never drink coffee in there).
Katrina

Yes, Meyerbeer is nice, but is there an actual Starbucks location (outside of movie theaters) anywhere in Munich?

I know they do exist in Germany because i've seen them in Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Berlin.

Starbucks Standorte

Looks like a wave making it's way south

In Seattle they have a tradition of ordering the coffee in a very fast voice as in: "Double tall half caf half decaf sweet and low latte please!" must we do it in Munich?

Yeah, but in German.

Doppel Hoch halb caffiniert halb decaffiniert süß und tief latte bitte.

Oh for the love of Pete, no, not here too. THEY HAVE BEER IN BAVARIA.

I for one detest the rise of these "coffee shops", unless they are the Dutch variety (alsho). People going out to meet for a cup of bloody coffee?? BEER BEER BEER. Please.


No. Absolutely not.
When we go to see family in Düsseldorf, they all drink more coffee than beer, and seeing as it takes a bar about 10 minutes to pour you about 124ml of bitter tasting pils, perhaps thats not too surprising, but not here.

BAVARIA HAS BEER.

Amen to Don!!

Although I doubt that the Dutch variety of the coffee shops will be opened here...

Coffee on the way to work, beer during the break, and beer after. But it is a perfectly balanced fulcrum, not to be outweighed by anyone side.

OK, pick up some takeaway perhaps.

Just no to the stupid going out to MEET and drink coffee a la "Friends". If thats what young people do for fun in New York, then I hope I never go there. No, really.

Out of interest, I assume that Starbucks (and the myraid copies) are actually non-smoking in the US?

Don,
Dean & Deluca sell Andechs' beer. They also do several varieties of Weizen as well as Löwenbräu and Becks. In fact quite a lot of supermarkets in New York sell Becks and Löwenbräu which was very helpful when Herr Indoors and I went there last year.
You'd love Dean and Deluca Don, it is foodie heaven.
Katrina

Hey Don, chill out. Its Monday and we're all feeling it too man!

I can't function on a Monday without a bloody strong coffee inside me. This morning I sank three of the poisonous brews. Guy in our company makes mega strength stuff which has more coffee than water in it. He doesn't like "Bodensee" strength coffee.

Then the day gets healthier. By lunchtime I am on the salad. Afternoon I am drinking non-caffeine fruit tea. But by evening back to the BEER.

Now how would a Dutch coffee house sit in Bavaria? Tickles as a thought.

No, I won't!

I also need some serious coffee intake to kickstart the morning, but its the whole "coffee as a social drink" thang that gets my goat. I read an article on young people in the states going out to drink coffee of an EVENING, and seeing it as a social thang. Grrrrr.

I last lived in Marlow, and in the last 2 years, 3 or 4 'different' (by name only) coffee shops opened up. Now, on Marlow high street alone there are 8 or 9 pubs, and they sell coffee if you really want it. Why the need for crap coffee shops that do not offer beer?

Gotta crush these things early, or before you know it, the Chinese Tower will become the "Starbucks Tower", selling maß glasses of frothed up caramel flavoured mocca chocca double super latte chinos.

Okay Don you have a point.

This coffee thing should be suppressed early. America will own the planet.

Point is, can you get pissed on coffee? I think not.

What a crap...but on the other hand, going out for a beer in the States means you're bound to Bud, Labatt, Coors, Rolling Rock or any of that other shit.

Actually the Yanks are wising up (to support Katrina's point), when I was in L.A. (did I mention I was in L.A. by the way? ) I found Spaten, Löwenbräu and Paulaner in an upmarket food stroe called Bristol Farms. They were brewed here in Munich too - not under license. That's a bloody long way to ship bottles of beer though.

Bristol Farms? I'll add that one to the list. I love going to posh delis. Dean and Deluca was the first thing on my list of things to do in NYC and I still go to Spar with my fabric D&D bag bringing a bit of glamour to the weekly shop.
I'm not that keen on Starbucks though and was gutted when they bought out Seattle Coffee Co. in London because the branch in Leadenhall St. was never the same afterwards.
Katrina
PS Now cocktails, that's something you can get done well in the US...

I would never have disliked chains such as Starbucks, if only they had just stayed in their own country. I read an article by the CEO quite a few years back when they were first planning their European conquest. I was shocked by the brutal honesty of the CEO, which I also gave the guy respect for his honesty (although he is still a Barclays Banker!), as he claimed that his main goal in dominating the European coffee market was to conquer the Italian coffee market. He claimed that he realised that Italian coffee is much better than his poor “dirty water� equivalent, but however, if he managed to succeed, then it proved that good marketing is better than quality!
I still can’t believe that this was a genuine article.

I just feel sorry for all these idiots, who, as has already been pointed out in this chat, just go along for the social thing, that it “has to be done�. Personally, I am not a complete anti-global type, I just don’t like to see complete standardisation everywhere, and people losing their individuality.

By the way, it isn’t only because I am half-Italian that I am making this point. But, I just found it strange that when I was living in Italy, I saw many tourists only eating at McDonalds and drinking the likes of Starbucks Coffee. It’s sad to say that also many young Italians (like their “rest of the world� counterparts) are following in their footsteps, as they believe that this is the “in� thing to do.

What a sad standardised world that we live in! Seeing as this is inevitable, let’s just hope for some good shepards in the future!

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Munich, Munich

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