Coffee Republic

via the Telegraph
As Coffee Republic finance director James Muirhead, unveiled the chain’s 12th consecutive year of losses despite a quadrupling of outlets, he said: “It would be naive not to expect a slowdown and belt tightening in the current economic climate.”
I’d like to meet the shareholders of Coffee Republic. I’ve got this bridge for sale…
Seriously, […]

Free Wi-fi with Coffee Republic

Large coffee chain in the UK. From 1st May. See this.
Anyone know if the coffee’s good?

Surf and Turf

McDonalds to do Free Wi-Fi
McDonald’s has announced that it will offer free Wi-Fi in its 1,200 UK outlets by the end of the year.
Not that I’m a huge fan of McDonalds (I am however partial to their shakes and McFlurrys), but hopefully this will put pressure on Starbucks, Costa, Nero and so on to do […]

More Starbucks

Another thing to add about Starbucks.
I had a little discussion with Andrew Collins on his blog, but the only real reason I see there is "American Cultural Imperialism", which I think isn’t right.
As I said in an earlier post, I don’t like Starbucks coffee. I also don’t much like the music they play or their […]

What’s Wrong with Starbucks?

I was reading Andrew Collins’ Blog, where he says:-
"I’ve been boycotting Starbucks ever since reading and obeying No Logo, so I was glad to find one of the smaller multinational food conglomerates to drink a decaff latte in."
I really don’t understand what the problem is with Starbucks. I only have one problem with them - […]