The combo cupping: Tea and Coffee; Warmth and fun
This blog post is a mixed-bag of things. It’s a tea cupping (I don’t think I’ve ever talked about a tea cupping before, though I talk about coffee cuppings all…
Orange and Valencia: Flavors we miss at Starbucks
What is “orange”? It’s a fruit with a peel with a stipple feel to it. It’s a county and a city in California. It’s a county and a city in…
Four 1995 Starbucks coffee-stamp inspired mugs [Open thread]
In the 1990s, the merchandise inside a Starbucks was about the coffee. It was about the coffee beans, the coffee variety, and the many amazing blends. At several times in…
Starbucks Around the Globe: The Great Wall of China and South of the Clouds
This is episode #3 of three of Starbucks Around the Globe. Today’s journey is a brief trip to the world of Starbucks in China, and is an introductory discussion of…
Legendary lives in Eureka, California (@Starbucks store #5970) (Store review)
This blog post features Starbucks store 5970, in Eureka, California, on Myrtle Avenue. But before I launch into the blog post, let me first give a quick background. Some of…
Product (Red) Cold Starbucks To Go Tumbler – An Idea
We are global citizens. We have an awesome responsibility especially as the addicted coffee drinkers that we are: Coffee touches numerous impoverished growing regions, and we in a first world…
Starbucks Sumatra Siborong-Borong
I promised you no new content for one week in yesterday’s blog post, but the problem is that I spend my life stumbling upon Starbucks content. I swear I don’t…
Starbucks Experiments with Digital Menuboards
I just stumbled upon a store with digital menu boards at a Starbucks. What an eye-grabber! It is 3 LCD panels, with one panel fixed with hot beverage menu. The…
First and Battery Starbucks
Take a look at the Starbucks gift card featured as the photo for this blog post. It is Starbucks store 3218, in Belltown, at First and Battery, in Seattle. It…
This coffee adventure will last 80,640 minutes at Starbucks. (8 weeks of bold)
As of yesterday, Starbucks is promoting their bold brews. I want to enjoy every minute of it: All 80,640 minutes of the bold brewed promotion. It is 8 weeks of…
Partnership and Collaboration: The new Starbucks Conservation International Card
Starting today, Starbucks is offering a Conservation International card! I love it. Starbucks has been in partnership with Conservation International since 1998. This partnership has always made enormous sense because…
The Starbucks chalk art contest: Entries and winners
On February 11, 2010, I announced a contest to find Starbucks barista art. See previous blog entry: Barista Art Contest Anyone could enter, though I listed quite a few rules. …
