I’d peg that as a bigger reason for failing then. That was the true selling point of starbucks. You buy an overpriced coffee/sugarsnotmix and then use it as a meeting joint or workspace for an hour or two. I hated the trend of just-out-of-college colleagues suggesting (and getting) starbucks as a meeting location. No, I don’t want to bring my laptop to starbucks and sit around a table talking about our work for an hour or two. I have to shut down at the office, drive or get a ride to the shitjoint, re-set up everything again, and then try to keep my voice low enough to not annoy others in the place and high enough to be heard over everything going on… grumble grumble.
It’s not a third place anymore. They changed that policy about a year ago.
I’d peg that as a bigger reason for failing then. That was the true selling point of starbucks. You buy an overpriced coffee/sugarsnotmix and then use it as a meeting joint or workspace for an hour or two. I hated the trend of just-out-of-college colleagues suggesting (and getting) starbucks as a meeting location. No, I don’t want to bring my laptop to starbucks and sit around a table talking about our work for an hour or two. I have to shut down at the office, drive or get a ride to the shitjoint, re-set up everything again, and then try to keep my voice low enough to not annoy others in the place and high enough to be heard over everything going on… grumble grumble.