Just curious...give me reasons to why you hate Starbucks.?

Question

I work at Starbucks, and I love it. So maybe this is just the one I work at but, we always have fresh coffee, we are always nice to every customer that comes in.
Also, we carefully make our drinks to make sure they are perfect, and still if the customer doesn't like it, we will make them something else or give them their money back.

Now, I have been to a horrible Starbucks, but I am going to use the whole "they opened 2 weeks ago" excuse on them. And, truthfully they did open 2 weeks before I stopped in, so I am hoping they changed.

Anyway, I know there is a ton of you Starbucks haters out there, so I just want to know why do you hate Starbucks so much?
Fire Away!!!

Also, please give me real reasons to why you hate it.
Don't be one of those people who hates things to be cool.

Answer 1

Their coffee is overroasted. Just like any big business, the coffee is stale by the time it gets to the consumer. The coffee is over priced to allow for the expense of decorum.
And I like my home roasted Fresh coffee.

Answer 2

The coffee just tastes absolutely bitter. Even the espresso. And I lived in Seattle for years. It was always soo much easier to go somewhere else than a Starbucks for just that reason.

And now that I'm in the Midwest and there aren't as many choices. I have to be super specific about what exactly I want in my latte and actually watch to make sure they make it correctly. Cause I can sure tell if it doesn't have the right ingredients.

It's also a pain to have to argue with the employees every time I go to a different one around the city. If I hit the same one I normally go to on the weekends I've already trained all the employees there to make my drink.

So that's why Starbucks is my least fave place to go for coffee.

Answer 3

Well, I don't actually HATE them.

I think they have lousy labor policies, making most employees work only a part-time schedule, and leaning on and firing employees that have tried to organize unions.

They ARE horribly expensive.

I suspect that they "spike" their coffee with extra caffeine to encourage addiction.

They buy their coffee from some pretty questionable companies, company propaganda about "sustaineable growth" and "fair trade" notwithstanding.

They place stores in order to drive local coffeehouses out of business.

However, in their favor, many places don't HAVE local coffeehouses. I have lived in New York and San Francisco, where there WERE real coffeehouses, from "Bohemian" types to the ones where old Italian men drank espresso and argued politics. So I had some experience what a good cup of coffee was like.

But for many Americans the first HALF-decent cup of coffee they've ever had came from Starbucks. Before their big expansion, all that was available was diner joe and boiled gas station mud.

So it's a mixed bag, but more negatives than positives.

I do buy their stuff sometimes. But I'd rather buy from Miss Tamara at our locally-owned coffeehouse.

Her employees are all full-time, and are paid more than the usual rates around here.

And her coffee tastes better, and is WAY cheaper.

Answer 4

I have a love/hate relationship because it is so addictive. The venti soy latte is my drink of choice, and sometimes I have to drive around for an hour or two aimlessly since I can't get my baby to nap any other way - and I get thirsty, and then - hello! Starbucks drivethrough! And sure enough, there's a $4.50 drink.

It was costing me about 40+ dollars a month for Starbucks, so I dropped my credit card behind a bookshelf so I couldn't reach it and now I just buy groceries with cash.

I put on 3 pounds because of it in one month, also, since it's roughly an extra 200+ calories for that latte.

So, there's the reasons for my love/hate relationship.

Answer 5

Expensive, stale, over-roasted. Bitter, snooty, and "Americana". (I hate "Americana")

I turn everybody I can AWAY from Starschmucks as soon as they taste a cup of GOOD coffee... I select my own green beans, roast and brew IMMEDIATELY with filtered water. No bitter, but smooth, and FAR less money than a venti-double-half-caf, latte, extra-foam, whatever, that you guys schlep.

I also feel sorry for the people that WORK at Starbucks, as they are RARELY allowed over 32 hours per week, thus not qualifying as "full-time" employees, and therefore ineligible for any sort of benefits - like health or dental insurance. Don't you personally feel used for that reason alone?

Fair-trade is anything but, and this particular company is raking in on the supposed benefits of fair trade, while all along, trampling the small coffee farmer.

Answer 6

Im partial to them but thats only because there arent heaps where I am (australia) Ive only ever seen one and even then I got there signature hot chocolate which was way too sweet and half of it was cream, needless to say I felt sick afterwards from the overload of sugar, and it was like 5.70$ for it as well which is kind of ridiculously overpriced, the only thing I like there are the double chocolate muffins (even though they dont taste like 100% chocolate they taste like they have bran added to them) but still even then it's like 4.20$ for a muffin, I mean I know they have to charge a certain amount but everyone is buying from there so why not lower the prices? They'll have more people buying then. I've heard that in america theres a star bucks on almost every block, is this true?

Answer 7

As someone else said, it tastes burnt, and stale!! That's exactly it, like it's been over-roasted. It's also horrendously overpriced. I don't understand why people like the stuff. Perhaps it is all the caffeine, I don't know.

But there's definitely something in Starbucks coffee that isn't found in most other coffees - because the stuff works like Ex-Lax on my system (sorry if TMI, but it's the truth). Other coffees don't do that to me - at least not to the severity that Starbucks does.

So that's why I hate Starbucks.

Answer 8

I hate Starbucks because it just tastes old and bitter. To be honest if the coffee was that great, why would the company choose to mask the taste with pumps and pumps of syrup and whipped cream? They arent selling a good product, they are selling a good brand name which in my humble opinion is demoralizing to us Americans who pay the 4.50 for it.
Have a nice Day!

Answer 9

I love Starbucks but my parents don't like it because they like just regular coffee, so the rest of the stuff just confuses them.

Answer 10

It took them forever to serve almond milk when their competitors were serving it already.

They refuse to put microwaves in their restaurants

Their music over their p.a. system is incredibly annoying and too loud

Their stuff is overpriced

And their coffee really isnt that good by itself. Anyone's coffee tastes great with tons of sugar, hfcs, whip cream, saturated fat, milk and syrup in it. But on its own, ot isn't that great.