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The evils of Starbucks?

So inspired by the Starbucks question and I guy who's cafe I go in on an industrial estate who used to work for 2 billionaires. Ways around this...

Individuals who love food and have a talent for it take over individual chain establishments and do what they like with them. The establishments still come under the umbrella of, for example star bucks, but they can call the cafe whatever they want and instead of a wage take 50% of the profits. Waitresses still get paid whatever they get paid, can't account for everyone.

So if they like to make eggs royal or calves liver and bacon with celeric mash etc etc they can. The chain establishment is still making money and talented people who have a passion for providing food are free to do so.

They can still provide the coffee, hopefully better coffee although I do like a Starbucks caramel Macchiatto, and the package sandwiches but they get cart blanche over anything else they want to do and with money as a motivation although they'd need a level of talent and passion and need to fit the area they're in..

Which that said about areas they're in the cafe on the industrial estate I go to whenever possible cooks food you'd find in a London Brasserie so good food comes across in any location. It's always full, his specials are fantastic but he still cooks standard cafe food which the idiots I work with eat and miss out completely on the guys brilliant talent... Anyway he makes his money that he shuts at 2 and on weekends... Which proves location does not matter if food is great because I've seen every walk of life (except the idiots I work with) enjoying his specials.

That'd take time, only so many places would be able to swap to this at a time because of finding the passionate and talented people. But it seems a feasible way forward where big business works with individual food providers instead of against them. And eventually our towns would be full of diversity again instead of half hearted money making machines.

An idea. I dunno if chains would appreciate it though.
Whyme · 46-50, M
Novel idea but i think too much money in the big chains they would choke out indevidual people possible in small operations like lunch rooms location would be key
Whyme · 46-50, M
Starbucks ewww way too much yuck in there coffee timmies all the way baby
SW-User
👏I like it...let’s send Mr Starbucks a letter by pigeon and see what happens
I didn't know this.

I thought they had to religiously stick within parameters.

If this is possible, Ora a clever way for those with epicurean passion to do what they love
..amd for those us who adore good food.... To get it.

Love the idea.!!?
KaiserSolze · 46-50, F
@OogieBoogie Its just an idea. They probably won't do it. I thought about how to be able to have small business type places but under an umbrella because corporate giants will win every time. The giants would have to value the places they live in and want to see and feel people living happily, doing something they love and eating better food. Do they have that much awareness for how much better that'd be and the balls to risk their money maki machine on having overall better places to live? I don't know.
@KaiserSolze hmmm, people en masse, like their nice little 'expected sameness' and 'standard rules'

Buy it's a nice dream.

We git this guy near where I live... Never seen a pastry chef le him!!!!

Damn!!!! The things he comes up with!!!!

I've taken some of his stuff home and tried to work out the complex flavours he put together!!!!

He is magic!!!

Most of his stuff is good quality slightly edgy standard, not too weird to scare of the plebeians, bit every now and then he'll throw in a personal creation. For a week or two,

And THESE.... I look foreward too.

But we are just everyday suburbia, and most wouldn't even see his brilliance.
KaiserSolze · 46-50, F
@OogieBoogie same with my cafe guy. Its a possible dream. Peoples sameness can become their local cafe with their local face instead of a brand and when travelling you only need to look where the old people are and the police because they tend to pick good food places.

 
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