Businesses that ought to fail.

I was once in a queue in starbucks with the guy I had just given a pound to begging outside.

Alpkit.

No longer doing the filet, and it’s replacement won’t be available this winter. Dreadful stock control. 🙂

Actually, not sure how I feel about them, but it is pretty shambolic.

It’s a treat. A nice thing. I think for me it goes back to when I was a kid. We didn’t have a lot of money, but we had enough to occasionally have a cup of tea in a cafe when we were in town. I loved this to bits, it felt like a real treat, and I guess it still does.

Likewise, going to a cafe was a real treat when we were growing up, even though they were smoky as hell back then!

Seems to me that people that get really het up about coffee shops probably drink too much of the stuff.

IME they’re teetotallers who really should let their hair down and have a beer.

Live a little caffeine addicts. It might be help you see the world more clearly.

I would rather support an independent and individual coffee shop/tea shop. Far nicer especially with home-made cake.

In my opinion the cloned coffee shops just serve over-priced dishwater, in grotty crockery, together with zero ambience. 😐

I would rather support an independent and individual coffee shop/tea shop. Far nicer especially with home-made cake.

Are you saying every independent coffee shop is great and better than any chain? Cos I have been in plenty of shit ones with dishwater for coffee. There is nothing intrinsic about an indie that makes it better. I want to drink good coffee, so I go ti the places that serve it. If that is a big chain then fine, they deserve my business.

There are many options of course in the big chains, maybe you had a bad one? A flat white for example fro starbucjs or an espresso macchiato from costa is no way dishwater.

Cinnamon_Girl, you seem like a somewhat distinguished individual, a lady of taste, you remind me of –