Starbucks coming to India soon

Marc Clifton

Oh no! Horrors! That means that programmers all over India will become even MORE productive! ;P Marc

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Christian Graus

Maximilien wrote:

It always depend on how good the person at the coffee machine is, it can make a big difference.

It's 95% of the equation ( I used to sell coffee ).

Maximilien wrote:

the problem with those stores is that they offer so much coffee junk mix, and people in general forget how good a simple espresso or latte really is; without all the whipped cream, addtional flavours.

I just have a latte, and I couldn't find one I could drink in Seattle, home of Starbucks.

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Eytukan

AbhishekBK wrote:

Coke is like "Real Evil"

Watchout! you'd be voted down by a platinum head here, that too of our own flavour. :-D

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GaryWoodfine

Starbucks is SH!T Overrated, overpriced and over marketed!!

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Shog9 0

Sceptic Mole wrote:

BTW, is Starbucks considered 'good' or 'bad' (like McDonald's) in the USA?

Yes. :) Seriously, it depends on who you ask - coffee snobs dump on it, but there's nothing really wrong with the coffee - you can certainly find much, much worse. However, they do tend to de-emphasize actual coffee in favor of very sweet coffee-based drinks, and nearly everything they sell is hugely over-priced. YMMV.

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_ABHILASH_MS_

Overpriced Probably ! . But I will swear by the White Chococlate Caramel Mocha any day or any night.Hope they have a country sensitive pricing

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Abu Mami

I spent a good amount of time in India and used to frequent the Java Green shops at the Reliance Infocomm campus. Nice. How do they compare with Starbucks. I still prefer good old Israeli Turkish coffee (referred to by the Hebrew word for mud).

Christopher Duncan

I think this is great news for programmers in western countries whose jobs have been outsourced to India. With the entry of Starbucks into the Indian culture, people will soon become accustomed to paying $4 for a bad cup of coffee, and as history shows, will even begin to crave it. This will lead to a growing demand from Indian programmers to be paid the same rate as their western counterparts in order to support their new caffeine habit. Once this happens, the global playing field will become level once more, and there will be enough high paying coding work to go around for everyone. Viva Starbucks! :-D

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Michael Dunn

It's above fast-food coffee but it's far from gourmet. EDIT: Looks like I got bit by The Forum Bug, this was a reply to "is Starbucks considered 'good' or 'bad' (like McDonald's) in the USA?"

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Nish Nishant

Christopher Duncan wrote:

This will lead to a growing demand from Indian programmers to be paid the same rate as their western counterparts in order to support their new caffeine habit. Once this happens, the global playing field will become level once more, and there will be enough high paying coding work to go around for everyone.

:laugh: Actually, it also helps reduce the number of Indians moving to the US for work. Many of them do it for Starbucks coffee and better bandwidth. Indian ISPs are improving speeds and consumers have the option to get affordable broadband-level bandwidth in metro cities. With Starbucks debuting in India, I see a big dip in Indians who'd want to move.

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Nish Nishant

Shog9 wrote:

and nearly everything they sell is hugely over-priced

Yeah, but that may be a good selling point in India. Young folks like to show off their increased income levels by paying more (for the same quality). So they may go to Starbucks just for the price-increase factor.

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brianwelsch

It really depends on who you ask. Personally, I think their coffee is about average.

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smaaaart

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Many of them do it for Starbucks coffee and better bandwidth.

I have a suspicion they do it for the $$$. ;) Anyone moving to another country JUST for Starbucks coffee or JUST for bandwidth is a fool and without a life.

Tarakeshwar Reddy

I am thinking on the lines of opening StarKaapi in USA, people would get to have the real taste of South Indian coffee(or kaapi as its known).

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smaaaart

Tarakeshwar Reddy wrote:

StarKaapi

How about TaraKaapi (Star == Tara in Hindi)? :D

Tarakeshwar Reddy

smaaaart wrote:

TaraKaapi

Shhh, someone is going to steal the domain name

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Lost User

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

World's largest coffee chain, Starbucks, in India soon[^]

I refuse to go there because they refuse to put sugar in my coffee for me. They charge twice as much as anywhere else, the coffee is bad and then they have the hide to force me to take my coffee to a little counter, take the lid off and add my sugar. At $5 a cup I dont want to have to finish the job for them