Starbucks Coming to Italy???!!!!
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Starbucks Coming to Italy???!!!!
STARBUCKS COMING TO ITALY!
http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/starbu...-italy-retail/
To update a recent thread of mine"No Starbucks in Italy?"- http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...s-in-italy.cfm
Me I don'tmuch care if Starbucks comes and ruins Italian coffee culture as many claimed - IMO if the market can support Starbucks in Italy then why not - I do oppose blocking their entry thru arcane zoning laws - let the free market decide!
http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/starbu...-italy-retail/
To update a recent thread of mine"No Starbucks in Italy?"- http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...s-in-italy.cfm
Me I don'tmuch care if Starbucks comes and ruins Italian coffee culture as many claimed - IMO if the market can support Starbucks in Italy then why not - I do oppose blocking their entry thru arcane zoning laws - let the free market decide!
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" I do oppose blocking their entry thru arcane zoning laws "
Is anyone suggesting doing that in Italy? I thought SB wasn't in Italy because SB thought they'd not succeed.
And, if we're honest, in not paying tax in Italy Starbucks would be merely adhering to the local business culture.
Is anyone suggesting doing that in Italy? I thought SB wasn't in Italy because SB thought they'd not succeed.
And, if we're honest, in not paying tax in Italy Starbucks would be merely adhering to the local business culture.
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Every Starbucks I have been in in Europe has been mobbed.
Lines out the door @Starbucks at the Brandenburger Tor.
I think the Starbucks in Milano will be successful. Milano is a trendy fashion city and people will enjoy walking around with the Starbucks label on their coffee cups.
Prada, Gucci, Battistoni, Starbucks!
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Lines out the door @Starbucks at the Brandenburger Tor.
I think the Starbucks in Milano will be successful. Milano is a trendy fashion city and people will enjoy walking around with the Starbucks label on their coffee cups.
Prada, Gucci, Battistoni, Starbucks!
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They may be doing something right, but I'm not sure it's good old fashioned coffee. Don't get me wrong, our family has had a fair share of Starbucks, but it's usually frozen designer coffee drinks. We also don't really have many mom and pop choices available. The coffee we experienced in Italy was head and shoulders above anything Starbucks can offer. Perhaps Italians will have the sense to recognize that.
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Only time I went to a Starbucks was in Versailles.
My daughter absolutely wanted to go inside. She is a fan of Starbucks... if Italians are of the same mould, youngs will love it and clog it !
(don't mistake me, I've absolutely no idea if coffee is good - I dislike all coffees). Only one I found fabulous was a coffe with full cream etc in Aalborg, after a visit in the dark and cold up there.
My daughter absolutely wanted to go inside. She is a fan of Starbucks... if Italians are of the same mould, youngs will love it and clog it !
(don't mistake me, I've absolutely no idea if coffee is good - I dislike all coffees). Only one I found fabulous was a coffe with full cream etc in Aalborg, after a visit in the dark and cold up there.
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An FYI ...
Having read a couple of articles here in Milan this morning (in local Milano rags) debunking the celebrated grand opening of Starbucks on the 1st of February (as per the Facebook page), in order to satisfy my curiousity we decided to take a stroll down Corso Buenos Aires to see if we could find any sign of Starbucks' arrival ...
Nothing. Sorry to disappoint.
But if anyone is interested, they were putting the finishing touches on a new Nike store ...
Having read a couple of articles here in Milan this morning (in local Milano rags) debunking the celebrated grand opening of Starbucks on the 1st of February (as per the Facebook page), in order to satisfy my curiousity we decided to take a stroll down Corso Buenos Aires to see if we could find any sign of Starbucks' arrival ...
Nothing. Sorry to disappoint.
But if anyone is interested, they were putting the finishing touches on a new Nike store ...
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I don't lkke Starbucks either Myriam although most of my friends do so occasionally I go there with them. Their flat white is not bad.
In Italy I would not go to Starbucks, that would just seem ridiculous to me when the coffee there is so good in any bar you go to.
In Italy I would not go to Starbucks, that would just seem ridiculous to me when the coffee there is so good in any bar you go to.
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Un pousse-café doesn't even have coffee in it, Pal.>
Just after I posted I took a long hike (like you've been suggesting) and voila thought - pousse-cafe is an after the ubiquitous coffee drinking at the end of a large meal - after the coffee - I knew that but forgot that!
Thanks for the correcto! Score one for St-Cirq and Dordogneshire!
Just after I posted I took a long hike (like you've been suggesting) and voila thought - pousse-cafe is an after the ubiquitous coffee drinking at the end of a large meal - after the coffee - I knew that but forgot that!
Thanks for the correcto! Score one for St-Cirq and Dordogneshire!
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Read this from their CEO:
https://news.starbucks.com/news/star...-Italy-in-2017
"Inspired by the craftsmanship of the Milanese barista, the spirit of the Italian people, their passion for community, their friendliness and taste for quality, Schultz’s vision for Starbucks began to take root."
Something must have gone wrong over the years then.
https://news.starbucks.com/news/star...-Italy-in-2017
"Inspired by the craftsmanship of the Milanese barista, the spirit of the Italian people, their passion for community, their friendliness and taste for quality, Schultz’s vision for Starbucks began to take root."
Something must have gone wrong over the years then.