Starbucks

Starbucks I have more and more of a like — dislike relationship with these days.
Here are my likes:
1) The fact that it’s one of the better places to come and spend time to study, meet people or work in a quiet atmosphere.
2) They really understand interior design creating comfortable spaces where people want to rendezvous.
3) They basically were the first to offer free wifi at a café.
4) You can personalize what you enjoy to drink.
5) Their lemon-​poppyseed loaf cake. It’s really damn good!
6) That they were pretty quick to have a Starbucks app that you could pay on your phone and recharge easily.
Dislikes:
1) Very expensive for what you get (just shy of $ 5 for a grande cappuccino). Hence I usually just drink espresso or the odd cappuccino or the rare cold drink in summer.
2) Their fru-​fru sugary coffees. When Starbucks first came to Canada in the late 90’s I would have a caramel macchiato. Not my stomach turns just thinking of one! Pumpkin spice latte’s mix well with Ugg boots for a woman + iPhone in hand. You’d never catch me drinking one of these hideous creations!
2) Some locations the baristas are overly friendly in a bit of a fake way. Thankfully not here.
3) How long the lines can be at some locations. This location today was not the case today… yay!
4) Their cold teas-​lemonades drinks are half filled with ice. When you ask for less they don’t really give much less.
Overall some good some bad Slightly more good so I’ll keep coming back but infrequently.

Starbucks is Starbucks.
It’s perfect, the only things, it’s that it’s crowded with people when it gets to the finals week.