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Munich's third Starbucks is now open
Across from the Viktualienmarkt
Round the corner from Tchibo facing the Viktualienmarkt. Had big slices of chocolate cake behind the glass too
*drools* chocolate truffle cake!
Bah humbug.
Why is there no Dunkin Donuts? Why is Starbucks everywhere? Starbucks sucks!
Ahhh... But there is a DnD But you must travel to Berlin (Berlin Zoo DB Station) or Prague
Agreed.. Munich need one too..
Agreed.. Munich need one too..
I don't know why people think Dunkin Donuts is so great. I mean, they make an awesome creme-filled donut, but other than that it's just a plain old donut shop.
Crosslink by admin: Dunkin Donuts in Munich
Crosslink by admin: Dunkin Donuts in Munich
I heard the Starbuck CEO call the prophet Mohammed "a big fat nonce" last week.
(hopes in vain that muslim fanatics wipe out the entire evil Starbucks chain)
(hopes in vain that muslim fanatics wipe out the entire evil Starbucks chain)
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Why is there no Dunkin Donuts?
Can't find enough pastry in Bavaria, huh ?
QUOTE (hahnsen @ Aug 14 2005, 7:35 pm)
I liked the Austin Powers take on Starbucks. I think they are an organized criminal enterprise designed to eventually subvert and take control of the world.
Dunkin' Donuts wins my vote on their variety of donuts. I could name a dozen types I have rarely (if ever) seen anywhere else. Krispy Kreme is too sugary and not enough variety.
If Starbucks would stop charging $4 for a coffee and start serving Dunkin' Donuts then I would give a f*&k about them...
went to check out that new Starbucks yesterday. It's soooo tiny! I'd get claustophobic when it's full.
Starbucks should remove tarb and rename it as Sucks
funny, i thought it should piratize and go with Aaarghbucks. Matey optional.
/would stump off with peg leg for a light, half cap low fat something something but the bird and the eyepatch dont do well in this kinda weather.
/would stump off with peg leg for a light, half cap low fat something something but the bird and the eyepatch dont do well in this kinda weather.
Or wankbuckets.
@IPJ - it's not their donuts I miss, it's their hazelnut & vanilla coffee!!!
Achso...well, I hold my ground on their creme-filled donuts being some of the tastiest donuts around (wasn't impressed with their plain coffee, but I never tried the hazelnut & vanilla...).
What a dream. Starbucks, McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Howard Johnsons...all next to each other.
Fortunately, in Schladming, when McDonalds (and crew) turned up to "offer" their "services" in the form of outlets in the town and on the slopes, they were roundly told to "naff orf" as they were not wanted there.
Result:
Well, the nearest fast food outlet is around 30 km away. The Dachstein has a reputation of being one of the most advanced but pretty and diverse ski resorts in Europe that attracts all sorts of SKIERS but avoids the retards that cannot survive without a fast food joint for more than 2 days.
Note that the Americans are building a big ski resort based on their findings from the resorts in the Austrian and Italian alps not vice versa.
Personally I like the Starbucks Egg Nog winter coffee but an Austrian firm do an Egg Nog milk which tastes like heaven...and it is cheaper!!!
Fortunately, in Schladming, when McDonalds (and crew) turned up to "offer" their "services" in the form of outlets in the town and on the slopes, they were roundly told to "naff orf" as they were not wanted there.
Result:
Well, the nearest fast food outlet is around 30 km away. The Dachstein has a reputation of being one of the most advanced but pretty and diverse ski resorts in Europe that attracts all sorts of SKIERS but avoids the retards that cannot survive without a fast food joint for more than 2 days.
Note that the Americans are building a big ski resort based on their findings from the resorts in the Austrian and Italian alps not vice versa.
Personally I like the Starbucks Egg Nog winter coffee but an Austrian firm do an Egg Nog milk which tastes like heaven...and it is cheaper!!!
Ahh canaryman, how unusual your missing the point.
If theres a suitable alternative to some of these things, we'll happily use em.
But show me an alternative to dunkin donuts, show me a comfortable non seedy coffee house open at 11pm?
Enjoy your egnog
Poots
If theres a suitable alternative to some of these things, we'll happily use em.
But show me an alternative to dunkin donuts, show me a comfortable non seedy coffee house open at 11pm?
Enjoy your egnog
Poots
Hello Pootle. I havent missed the point although I think that you may have missed mine. My point is that when I go to different countries I try and "go local" and indulge in the food, drinks, way of life etc, etc. I despise the fact that massive companies standardise everything (especially food) and try to take over the market of whatever country they are in. For example, I was in Dresden and there is a sign in a pedestrianised area that proudly states that you are can walk to 5 McDonalds in less than 7 minutes!!!
Furthermore, the alternative to having Dunkin, Pizza Hut, Burger King etc etc etc whilst out skiing is to use the family run ski huts and eat their local food. If people want "fast food" go skiing in the USA.
Furthermore, the alternative to having Dunkin, Pizza Hut, Burger King etc etc etc whilst out skiing is to use the family run ski huts and eat their local food. If people want "fast food" go skiing in the USA.
The SBUX appeal is that many of them serve as a living room for people that live in 25 quadratmeter apartments in the city. Its an alternative to hard seats, smoke and alcohol. (Except the small locations, which I avoid because thay're not comfy)
You can compare them to McDs and Burger King only in their ubiquity. You wouldn't want to read a book in a fast food joint on a rain sunday, now would you? In this respect, they have value.
Nobody bitched when a new SFCC opened, did they? It's the same business, only the furniture has more right angles.
That said, 145 SBUX in Central London is right their in the "sick" column...
You can compare them to McDs and Burger King only in their ubiquity. You wouldn't want to read a book in a fast food joint on a rain sunday, now would you? In this respect, they have value.
Nobody bitched when a new SFCC opened, did they? It's the same business, only the furniture has more right angles.
That said, 145 SBUX in Central London is right their in the "sick" column...
i can't seem to get a mental picture of where this is. there is a subway at viktualienmarkt, right, or whatever the plaza is called which is off from Viktualienmarkt. i really need to get on a bike and ride aruond this town.
You know Rosenthal? ie if you walk from Mplatz towards Viktualienmarkt but stay on the pavement and walk past the butchers and brush shops and things (don't cross over to Vikmarkt), then you reach a corner bending round to Rosental (or if you go straight on then you reach the road where the Schrannenhalle is on your left). Anyway carry on on the pavement and the Starbucks is on that corner before Tchibo. There's a cafe sort of opposite called Rosenthal cafe I think.
I have never drank in Starbucks so I can't comment on their coffee. However their buisness practices as outlined in the book "No Logo" by Naomi Klein are definitely something I don't agree with.
You can read an excerpt here.
You can read an excerpt here.
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Since Starbucks is explicit about its desire to enter markets only where it can "become the leading retailer and brand of coffee," the company has concentrated its store-a-day growth in relatively few areas. Instead of opening a few stores in every city in the world, or even in North America, Starbucks waits until it can blitz an entire area and spread, to quote Globe and Mail columnist John Barber, "like head lice through a kindergarten." It's a highly aggressive strategy, and it involves something the company calls "cannibalization."
The idea is to saturate an area with stores until the coffee competition is so fierce that sales drop even in individual Starbucks outlets.
The idea is to saturate an area with stores until the coffee competition is so fierce that sales drop even in individual Starbucks outlets.
YOU ARE NOT LIVING IN A FUCKING "FRIENDS" EPISODE:
Jeez. Coffee is a drink to wake you up in the morning, its sold fucking everywhere at any rate. Starbucks just add stupid fucking names to frothy milk, and DO NOT SELL BEER: Arseholes.
Jeez. Coffee is a drink to wake you up in the morning, its sold fucking everywhere at any rate. Starbucks just add stupid fucking names to frothy milk, and DO NOT SELL BEER: Arseholes.
'Friends' came long after...
I do pushups to wake up in the morning.
The Viktualienmarkt filiale faces to the east, and looks right across the street to the market...
I do pushups to wake up in the morning.
The Viktualienmarkt filiale faces to the east, and looks right across the street to the market...
From todays Irish Independent. Seems they've invaded over there as well.
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There are few more depressing sights than watching a bunch of Irish people queueing up outside the new Starbucks in Dundrum like Russians waiting for the first McDonald's to open in Moscow (look, sitting in a coffee shop listening to dreary music doesn't make you a character in Friends, you miserable, pretentious cabbage).
Now comes the news that the company has crumbled under pressure from the Religious Right to change the quotes they include on their cups after a proposed boycott in Texas. The company has included quotes from such people as the wonderful gay author Armistead Maupin, who talks about regretting not coming out of the closet earlier. That, obviously, is like a red rag to these people.
Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute - one of the outraged groups that led the boycott - dribbled: "Starbucks has long served up a New Age secular worldview."
Rather than replying that, actually, we simply serve up a variety of coffee with silly names, they crumbled and will now include Christian inspirational quotes on their cups as well.
Losers.
Now comes the news that the company has crumbled under pressure from the Religious Right to change the quotes they include on their cups after a proposed boycott in Texas. The company has included quotes from such people as the wonderful gay author Armistead Maupin, who talks about regretting not coming out of the closet earlier. That, obviously, is like a red rag to these people.
Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute - one of the outraged groups that led the boycott - dribbled: "Starbucks has long served up a New Age secular worldview."
Rather than replying that, actually, we simply serve up a variety of coffee with silly names, they crumbled and will now include Christian inspirational quotes on their cups as well.
Losers.
The McDonald's of hot drinks. Should be firebombed asap.
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Why is there no Dunkin Donuts? Why is Starbucks everywhere? Starbucks sucks!
why not just fuck off back to america?
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Should be firebombed asap.
Finally, somebody willing to talk sense.
I've got the petrol, bottles, rags and psychotic temperament, you just give me an alibi...
QUOTE (don_riina @ Oct 26 2005, 12:39 pm)
I've got the petrol, bottles, rags and psychotic temperament, you just give me an alibi...
Sign up for curry night and get on with the job.
I will make sure you have at least 30 witnesses who will testify that you were enjoying a nice hot curry with us that evening.
While you are at it, could you take down the KFC as well?
No please, spare the KFC.
No way. Not giving me a biscuit is unforgivable.
DR, what are you waiting for? Take it down now.
DR, what are you waiting for? Take it down now.
I just don't understand why people pay that much money for a (average tasting) coffee
QUOTE (don_riina @ Oct 26 2005, 12:39 pm)
Finally, somebody willing to talk sense.
I've got the petrol, bottles, rags and psychotic temperament, you just give me an alibi...
I've got the petrol, bottles, rags and psychotic temperament, you just give me an alibi...
You were round my place drinking cha.
Also now just outside entrance to PEP at Neuperlach Zentrum = opened last friday.
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