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Starbucks Cake Pop

Don — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:19:26 +0000

For April’s Fools Day, someone put a joke card on my kanban, “Get Coffee”. Today as I was getting ready to pull the card from my WIP, our group lead stopped me and said we were going to make it a real card and our manager was taking out out for coffee.
When we got to the nearest Starbucks, I was wondering what I would order, given the lack of decent hot chocolate at Starbucks now, when I noticed 3 little lollipop looking things in the food case. On inspection, it turned out they were something called “Cake Pops”, presumably a tiny bit of cake on a stick, covered in a frosting/candy shell. I got one of the tiramisu, and it was pretty much as expected. Very sweet, and the cake was on the underdone side. It was OK for free-to-me, but not as a paid-for item.

Extra Chocolate

Don — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:51:14 +0000

Whenever I go thru starbucks, and this one lady is working, she always gives me a little cup with the extra hot chocolate she has leftover. She never gives Brian an extra cup of hot water when she makes his americano. =p

Starbucks Disaster!

Don — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:06:46 +0000

Oh noes!

I got the inside word today, Starbucks is discontinuing the Signature Hot Chocolate. First it was my chantico, then the Odwalla, and now the siggy. They just really don’t want my non-coffee-money. =(

Serious About Coffee

Don — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:23:02 +0000

Bryan and I are walking over to Starbucks for our morning ritual, and notice a bunch of people standing around outside the building.

“A line all the way outside? That’s not good”

The door is locked, and now that we pay attention, we notice the flashing light inside, and the tinny buzz of a fire alarm inside.

Oh well.

But here’s the rub.

The drive-thru was still open.

Everyone in the building had to evacuate, but continuing to serve coffee was more important than the lives of mere baristas.

That’s dedication.

In all fairness, there probably wasn’t an actual fire in the building.