Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs

• NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It clearly doesn’t suck or there wouldn’t be one on every street corner in North America.

  But I’m sure you’re right about the automation. They don’t want variability in your experience. They want a coffee in Texas to taste the same as a coffee in Iqaluit.

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  • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yup, taste like burnt ass garbage beans, coast to coast.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does it suck because of or despite the machines?

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  • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Superautomatic machines make inferior espresso shots objectively. For various mechanical reasons they will never make espresso as well as non-automatic machine.

    That being said, I own one at my house. It’s very convenient and it’s passable espresso (when using decent beans, Starbucks burns their espresso beans and that’s the main reason it sucks). However, if I’m paying $5+ for a couple shots of espresso in whatever form I’m expecting it to be made right. Not worse than my mid range home machine makes with a couple button taps.

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