04.09
What’s up with Starbucks in the UK at the moment? Or maybe it’s just the Brighton franchise… Anyway, in the past few months they seem to be struggling badly on some very basic things.
For the past couple of months you’d be best advised to make sure you have cash when going into Starbucks in Brighton because it’s a lottery whether their card machines will be working or not. When there’s a group of 4-5 of you, paying by card can be very handy.
In the past two weeks, they’ve almost never got any food in store either. When this started happening, the guys working there said it was the delivery company, recently changed, that was the problem. Then, it was the food supplier that was being changed. Now, it’s a new, improved food ‘range’ that is being introduced. Whatever the real story is, it can’t be that hard to sort out…
They seem unable to find any tea either. I know it’s a coffee shop, but sometimes I just want a cup of tea but they have ‘run out’. For a week and a half now.
I hope they get back on track soon. The reason I care is because there are a number of us who come together to work there and there really is nowhere else in Brighton that we could do that (small cafe businesses in Brighton seem a bit scared of installing wifi and having people sit there for a few hours buying cakes, coffee or tea and working in case it brings porn barons in or something).
Tea–that’s funny. Chai tea maybe.
Seriously, I’d recommend finding a more “authentic” coffee shop. What’s that one in the UK? Cafe Veinna or something? Almost like a Starbucks I suppose.
Tea? You order tea in Starbucks? It’s a miracle you weren’t thrown out. I would have.
You got through that whole post without even mentioning that Starbucks in Brighton have become unofficial creches. It’s a shame that the wifi seems to be limited to Starbucks – I much prefer the coffee at Cafe Nero, or even Costa, but no wifi and not enough seating (especially in Cafe Nero) is a problem.
And as for the independent coffee shops – there just doesn’t seem to be as many as there used to be. And with formerly good places like the Sanctuary now famously banning laptops(!) it’s a pretty tricky to drink coffee in Brighton and feel good about it. If only we had somewhere like Halcyon in Austin – I like that place.