Starbucks wants to know your name

[Bungle]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17356957

I guess it might be useful for knowing which coffee is yours, but apart from that when I go in to a coffee shop I just want a coffee, I'm not looking to make friends.

[UTGeneral]

Can't wait for the corresponding foamy rant

[Bungle]

I like this tweet:

When the barista in Starbucks asks you your name so they can write it on your free latte, I dare you to say 'Costa'

LOL!

[mutelight]

As mentioned in the article, they have been doing this for years in the US.

I have never even began to consider this strange or an issue.

Plus you can always give them a false name and mess with them saying your name is "Lord Voldemort".

[Acupuncture]

Every small restaurant or coffee shop from Panera to Starbucks always ask your name. When your order is up, they call it. How is this an issue, let alone worthy of a news article?

[Sparafucil]

Chain coffee shops like Starbucks always ask your name and then promptly forget it. It's just a fake bid to be appear more friendly.

At the small coffee shop I've been going to for the last two years, all the baristas know my name and exactly how I like my usual coffee with a croissant. It's one of the nice little benefits of mom-and-pop cafes. That, and the fact that their coffee doesn't taste like burnt mud.

[mutelight]

Chain coffee shops like Starbucks always ask your name and then promptly forget it. It's just a fake bid to be appear more friendly.

They ask your name and then write it on the cup so the person preparing it can call out your name when it is ready, if they are busy.

At the small coffee shop I've been going to for the last two years, all the baristas know my name and exactly how I like my usual coffee with a croissant. It's one of the nice little benefits of mom-and-pop cafes. That, and the fact that their coffee doesn't taste like burnt mud.

The people who work at the Starbucks downstairs at my office know my name as well and ask if I would like my usual.

The same applies to the Peet's downtown from my house. Certainly not exclusive to independent cafes.

[Desolator]

Gonna use Peter File [busted]

[Sparafucil]

The people who work at the Starbucks downstairs at my office know my name as well and ask if I would like my usual.

The same applies to the Peet's downtown from my house. Certainly not exclusive to independent cafes.

Maybe where you live, but not in a midtown starbucks where there are hundreds of tourists and office workers queued in line in each morning. Your average Starbucks worker couldn't give a ****.

Also, I know for a fact your Starbucks coffee tastes like ****. (Because all Starbucks coffee tastes like ****.)

[CorrupT88]

Nnnnyyeeeessss I suppose those of a vastly superior intellect such as yourself do not deal with such crass consumerist produce.