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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Prick Or Just Precise?
Posted by David Warner on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Wade Tatangelo, SoHo man on the street , reports this incident: I laughed out loud. Couldn't help it. Her boyfriend glared at me but what the hell? I'm standing in the long morning line at Starbucks in SoHo todayand a woman orders "a 140 degree latte." The woman wanted her latte served at exactly 140 degrees. I'm a new resident of the SoHo district and not yet a regular at its swanky Starbucks. Is it common behavior to request a precise temp for one's latte? Or was this person just a snooty prick?
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Yeah, I write at a local Starbucks and hear shit like that all the time. It's common practice at the ritzier outlets. Doesn't mean she isn't a snooty prick.
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I worked at a coffee house, and had a regular snooty bitch customer that would come in and ask for a Cafe Americano like that every day. One, you're wasting your time ordering an Americano. Two, you're wasting my time forcing me to stick a thermometer in a frother until your stupid watered-down espresso is a specific temperature.
That is funny. I have been having a similar problem when I order a PBR at The Tiny Tap. I have told them repeatedly I want it at 40 degrees and they just don't seem to get it right. What's a person to do ?
mr bill raises a good point. warm beers. what bar has the coldest? thats a tough one, but there isnt a lot of competition. its cheaper to turn up the refrigerators...
I'm a barista's dream. "Large 'house,' lots of room for cream." I pay in cash. No change required. The exchange takes a matter of seconds. Except for when when I make an afternoon run from Loaf Headquarters and must order fancy drinks for my coworkers and wait in the fancy drink line. But I refuse to order a drink for anyone at a specific temp. That's just wrong, in my book.
It's always mystified me that Starbuck's (and other coffee places) don't have two lines inside - one for people (like me) who want straightforward latte even just coffee, and another line for people who want those stupid frou-frou iced coffee drinks that take five times as long to make as anything else in the store. It's even worse in the drive-thru, with cars backing all the way up into the parking lot while the overworked staff makes frappucinos (frappucinae?) for a carload of kids who are all yelling their orders at the driver. You'd think that in a coffee shop they'd understand the value of moving quickly.
I may have been a bit disingenuous with my comment above. I hate scalding hot liquids, so I always ask them to put a little ice in my large coffee. Does that put me in the snooty bitches line or the good 'ol cup 'o joe line? I'll burn my mouth if I have to, just to be accepted.
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