Starbucks

Good for a nice coffee. Its kind of expensive and some of the people can be a little snooty. It is a huge franchise anyway and not a corner coffee shop. Coffee is still good though.

Had a latte and a vanilla sweet cream cold brew. They just didn't taste right. Not up tonStarbucks standards especially for the price.

Now, when I was at this Starbucks location, I got a look from the serving window that was interpreted and/or understood by me as, "I know exactly what you are doing, and you shouldn't be doing it." It was a pre-meditated scorn, a frown, a furrow. Something that seemed to be triggered (facially and nonverbally) by the way I said "I'm picking up an order for Grant," (as if it was usual and service-able, …using the same tones of voice and inflections in my voice as I would use as a half-imitation match for a delivery personnel's attitude and inflections (including/emphasizing the distance-ness (emotionally) from my own satisfaction of the order and the customer's own satisfaction of the order, while simultaneously using the same line of words to nonverbally recognize and here-to the typical, summed-up, and coincidental (etc.) drama that a typical food delivery personnel runs into at drive throughs and/or restaurants (etc.)), plus eye contact and then split-second mental processing time on this person's end. Now, the eye contact could have been suggestive of a positive mental image-match (in this person's mind). And, the main point of this review is to illustrate and/or point out that I do not appreciate being told (in exact sync (affirmed through the use of two-way nonverbal communication between me and the person at the delivery window)) that I shouldn't go across America and write negative reviews online to whomever and whatever I want to, simply because someone's social class wishes to be respected. I understand writing negative reviews online is a form of punitive and guilt-based leadership power. I understand it doesn't make friends, and makes a lot of long-term enemies. I am okay with that, and have accepted that, and don't expect to change my ways. Ever since getting fired from Waverly Beach and leaving them a negative review online, I have felt a self-generated guilt to go around and give everyone else a negative review also for the sake of fairness (and also having my voice heard in general).

Anytime Dash is there, they always make the best drinks!

It's decent food and coffee. It's predictable, which makes it a safe spot to stop in. The food is a bit greasy, and the coffee is more bitter than strong. I believe they use Arabica beans, which are OK. I also taste some Blue Mountain in there. I prefer Sumatran.