http://whynotcoffee.com/2009/12/02/roy-street-coffee-tea/ Imbibe, we trust. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://whynotcoffee.com/2009/12/02/roy-street-coffee-tea/#comment-539 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:13:04 +0000 http://whynotcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=410#comment-539 Nathan, it is not Starbucks’ fault they are successful, but it is their customers. I am glad they are successful because it has allowed me as an independent coffee shop to provide a product that once was scoffed at. Even here in small town Oklahoma people are glad that someone like me came in after Starbucks closed shop. I believe we do it better and my customers seem to agree. We all have a place in the market. Only the market will decide if I stay.

]]> http://whynotcoffee.com/2009/12/02/roy-street-coffee-tea/#comment-538 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:04:33 +0000 http://whynotcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=410#comment-538 No one is denying that people like a dark roast because for many years that was the standard roast profile. The point of the “third wave” is influence people to taste the coffee rather than the roast. Melody you are passionate for the Starbucks way, but we are equally passionate for the non-starbucks way. Fresher coffee, higher quality coffee, lighter roasts and taking more care in making coffee. It is glaringly obvious that Starbucks sees what the third wave is doing and is incorporating this focus to quality into this location. Now, the hope is that they take it beyond these two stores and make it company wide.

]]> http://whynotcoffee.com/2009/12/02/roy-street-coffee-tea/#comment-208 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:30:54 +0000 http://whynotcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=410#comment-208 [...] Starbucks is so reviled by people who actually like coffee that they’ve experimented with burying the Starbucks name two pilot stores in Seattle which are designed to look more like the kind of place that serves Intelligentsia or Stumptown [...]

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