If somone were to open a tea equivilant to Starbucks in your town, would you use it?

Question

Thanks to all who have answered so far. Just to clarify, I am not thinking of a corp tea shop like starbucks, more the modern environment and takeaway options like starbucks has to offer. Less old fashioned tea and cake shop more alternative teas and fairtrade /organic produce

Answer 1

I would since I don't like coffee

Answer 2

I used to work in a 'tea' equivalent in Manchester - it went bust after less than 18 months. Reasons being:
1. Don't think the UK public were quite ready for the concept.
2. It was quite expensive.
3. The owner had too many concepts going at the same time - tea house, restaurant, cocktail bar, roof terrace. I think it over shadowed the simplicity of tea.

To answer your question, yes I would use it if it offered good quality for money and were able to offer the variety and quality of tea that a tea drinking nation would appreciate eg. like China.

Answer 3

I would use it. There's a coffee bar on every corner, and the tea offerings in these places tends to be normal, earl gray or fruit tea. There's so many different varieties of tea I would love to try, and a tea 'bar' would be the perfect opportunity. Think the only risk is that they get overpopulated with pensioners!

Answer 4

Probably not. It's just as easy, and tasty, to buy tea bags and make the tea at home. And it's a lot cheaper. When I go to Starbucks for coffee, it's because I like the complicated drinks and am too lazy to make them at home. :)

Answer 5

Definitely, especially if they had unusual teas, or live music, or the idea my friend had, he was thinking of opening a tea room that also served tonics and elixirs for health purposes. I'm not a big coffee drinker so a tea place near me would be a favorite destination for me.

Answer 6

you mean a traditional tea shop....there's loads of them about! I prefer the traditional tea shop to the mega corp. Hate Starbucks it really grinds my gears!!

Answer 7

Don't Starbucks do tea aswell?
I know of a nice place in my town who do cups of earl grey anyway

Answer 8

Yes. It would be nice to be able to get nice, hig-quality tea. Not that Tazo they serve at Starbucks isn't good, but there is better stuff out there.

Answer 9

Yes, I actually like Tealuxe, I think it's pretty neat. I like both coffee and tea equally. Sometimes tea is more soothing.

Answer 10

there is a great one in Lincoln UK, called Imperial Teas, they have a tea room and it offers aroung 50 varieties of tea.

Answer 11

Only for iced tea