Does anyone actually go to Starbucks to drink coffee? [EREH STEKCIT]

I just went two times
one to see how bad it was and the other one because I had to wait for a friend for a long time
so I waited there because of the internet

I brew coffee at home.
Edit: Or I go to Tim Hortons and get a XL and a doughnut for $2.50

when someone gives me a starbucks gift cards. Pretty often too.

I have instant coffee at home ... and free coffee at work

i'm not paying $5 for a cardboard container of stuff i can make by myself :D

I've been waiting for a day when I could post this!

I think it's popular in places around the world where they don't know or never tasted real coffee.

They sell coffee? :O I just buy their cool whipped topped chocolate slushies stuff ^_^

Maybe it's a regional difference, but if you just get a cup of coffee there it's less than $2.

It's terrible coffee, yeah, but I've grabbed it on my way to work a few times when there were no better options.

I go if they send me a bogo coupon, or if there is nowhere else for internet. I really don't like their coffee... but refills are priced okay compared to other places. I actually prefer McDonald's coffee, which is about the only thing I get from McD's. I can get internet from the McD's parking lot.

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I actually like their brownies... but dis shit is expensive xD
Their coffee doesn't worth $5+ imo

I went once, years ago. It cost me about 2.80€ (or was it 3.80€ ?) for a small one. For that price you'd at least expect something better than a cup made of paperboard. For that price you'd also expect a coffee that's at least decent. Never went again. For 1.10€ I can take a coffee anywhere that actually tastes good and the cup is made of glass or clay.

where I live we don't have Starbucks, and I hate coffee anyways

It's all about disposable income. For some people, $5-10 a day for delicious coffee is worth the price. The people who spend time entering hundreds of low-odds contests for free games mostly aren't their target market.

Never had a coffee from Starbucks, but I go there quite often. Never had a problem with the prices.

I'm from Italy bro.... The nation that started the good coffee culture.
My country refused even to let Starbucks open selling points. I went once to that place when I was in Prague but I can't really think of drinking 1/2 liter of coffee

It has decent hot chocolate. But the coffee itself is mediocre at best. If I'm traveling, I might stop in at one, but only if there's no alternatives.

However, I hear they are diversifying their menu options to include wine and hor d'oeurves. Fancy.

I like to go every so often, a giant $6 coffee blended slushy is a nice treat. I always like to put ice in my coffee when I make it at home, and for a while I was on a kick where I'd blend it up and use brown sugar instead of cane. I wouldn't go everyday even if I lived close to one though, that would add up fast and I'd rather add to my Criterion collection.

I go there for the white girls and wifi.

Starbucks has coffee?!

In seriousness, not only is their usual fare a weird extra-light ('blonde') half-burnt nightmare served with skim milk and tears, they actually have a second chain under the starbucks umbrella that sells CHEAPER coffee (forget the name, though.)

That being said, I once went to a Starbucks that offered 'gourmet blends', and unlike, say, the Starbucks-branded stuff you can get in grocery stores (that also tastes like literal garbage), it was halfway decent.

Only ever seen that once, though, and I think it was because the Starbucks there bought out another shop, and incorperated their old brews into their menu.

Alas.

The internet is nice, though :X

The pastries are.. okay.. if quite overpriced :X

$5 for a bite-size slice of cake? Come on now, Starbucks..
I love cake, but your cake just isn't good enough to justify something like $60 a cake.
Then again, you charge the same for your even-worse coffee, so..

Anyway, I've had some starbucks drinkers tell me what they actually like about it:
"Familiarity. No matter where I go, Starbucks tastes the same. Sure, it's awful, but I like not having to think about it."
"Brand awareness. Everyone knows what a Starbucks is. I say, 'meet at the Starbucks', they know what I mean. It's just easy. I don't really care too much about the coffee."

So long as those are sentiments people have, Starbucks'll continue to prosper.

I've been there twice, I was abroad, didn't have my own coffee and it was right next to the hostel.

I've been there with family, then went in once when they were giving away free cups of plain house blend coffee. I wished I hadn't.

I hate coffee

Shittiest coffee I've ever drink. I have my own What else machine.

I dont drink coffee at all. Tea for the win. Yes.

Not for the coffee, no. I really only go there to meet someone. It's a somewhat informal and ok place to go if you need to meet someone in a more casual way. I used to go quite often to Starbucks and McCafe when I was living in EasternEurope. But yeah, it's not a place I would go otherwise, and specially not to drink coffee.