Starbucks comes to Munich

Hiya

Here is the press release: Starbucks kommt nach München

Now just watch Mr Lodge update all those flat listings to include "Distance to Starbucks"...

Katrina



[size=1]Update by admin: Now a 2nd Starbucks also

Presumably the further a Mr. Lodge apartment is from one of these McCoffee hellholes, the cheaper it is.

Went to a starbucks in Singapore - did not sell beer. Useless.

For those who can't understand/won't learn German:

Yes there is a terrace there too.

They will also be opening in Nürnberg, on the Hauptmarkt (i.e. right near the Christkindlmarkt), in November.

Katrina

Well hopefully it won't be as expensive as the one in Vienna...just absurd.

I'm not a big Starbucks fan, though I'd definitely stop in now and again for a carmel frappacino (yum! ). It used to chap my ass the way all the tourists in my little beach town back home would funnel right into Starbucks, when the best coffee shop east of Kona was right across the street. Damn tourists...

well, HOT DAMN on two counts:

1) in a few short months I will finally be able to get a great big fucking cup of coffee to go that will taste exactly like I expect it to taste (i.e., and not what i consider a demitasse of bilgewater) and

2) apparently my German is improving, as I understood most of the message before Katrina posted the translation

all is good.

i actually found coffee fellows a good substitute, especially since they started doing iced caramel caffe lattes.

I hate Starbucks.

Rip-off merchants getting rich off people with more money than sense.

Oh crap. Another nail in the coffin of individuality. Another kick in the nadgers of class. Another putrid dump on the head of style.

You playa haters can sit out the TT Tea Time at Starbucks. Me, I'm going in for my mocha grande and one of those cranberry-orange muffins or maybe the American style chocolate cake. Probably wearing Gap clothing.

Goes off to sip Tazo Zen Tea, happily bought from Starbucks zurich airport

Yuk!

Argument about how U.S. corporations are FORCING people to buy their products in 3... 2... 1...

not from me.

i find it a lot more questionable that certain coffee chains FROM Munich choose American names to appear more cosmopolitan.

Indeed, San Francisco Coffee Company perhaps? They go so far as to require employees to speak English, and speak English to each other!

Well, I don't personally care much one way or another since I don't drink coffee. But I do go to the Americano-style coffee houses as they are sometimes easy places to meet during the day. I wonder if there will be any competition in the prices, as they are ridiculous right now.

Hmm...guess I can unpack my cappucino maker and pack my Starbucks card.

Actually...no. I'm just surprised at the whole phenomenon that has commercialized coffee drinking. My father has carried two large thermoses of coffee with him everywhere he's gone--for the past two and a half decades, at least. He might only stop into a Starbucks to ask for directions or use the restroom. Now days he could easily ditch the thermoses and never be at a loss for a cup o' java. I think Friends--that wretched, wretched show I can't help but watch reruns of--is somehow to blame for all of this.

Comedian Lewis Black does a bit about the end of the Universe being in Houston, Texas, where there is a Starbucks directly across the street from another Starbucks.
Amazon.com: The End Of The Universe