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.
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.
46-50, F
