Cuz there ain't enuf places to get coffee

[Morrigoon]

I can't see myself becoming a McDonald's coffee devotee.

I pay $4 for my coffee, and $3.50 for my Big Mac.... I expect damn good coffee, if you KWIM. If they try to serve me a Big Mac latte, they'd better have a price point under $2.

[Alex]

Just so long as the place doesn't end up smelling as vile as Starbucks/Peets/etc.

[Sohrshah]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

I can't see myself becoming a McDonald's coffee devotee.

I pay $4 for my coffee, and $3.50 for my Big Mac.... I expect damn good coffee, if you KWIM. If they try to serve me a Big Mac latte, they'd better have a price point under $2.

That's a good point. McDonald's cannotexpect the public to pay as much for their latte's as they do for a Starbuck;s latte. McDonald's is still a fast food joint. Starbucks has always been a few grades above that in their presentation.

I don't yet know how to quote more than one person's statement in one response, but Alex mentioned that he won't like the smell. McDonald's has always had coffee, so if you can stand it now, I doubt the smell with change very much if they have more coffee. It that's any consolation.

I was aware that McD's was in a bit of a slump, and I'd noticed that they were finally doing the logical thing- just being a burger joint. I think a good part of their problem what that they were overextending. McD's makes Big Macs. Stick with that, you know?

That said, I'm actually doing research to see which road food joints have the healthiest food (for my cross country drive), and I doubt Mcdonald's will be high on the list, so there's that, too.

[Alex]

On the other hand, unlike McDonald's the coffee isn't the main thing so they don't have to derive all their profit from it. They don't have to build stores and pay the rent off of coffee sales. Their overhead in expanding into coffee is much smaller than Starbucks so I've no doubt that they could sell coffee at fractions of the Starbucks' price and it would still be a fair profit. And if they are able to even approach Starbucks pricing it'll be easy money.

[Sohrshah]

Originally Posted by Alex

On the other hand, unlike McDonald's the coffee isn't the main thing so they don't have to derive all their profit from it. They don't have to build stores and pay the rent off of coffee sales. Their overhead in expanding into coffee is much smaller than Starbucks so I've no doubt that they could sell coffee at fractions of the Starbucks' price and it would still be a fair profit. And if they are able to even approach Starbucks pricing it'll be easy money.

That's a very good point!

[Sohrshah]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

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Use the button that looks like "+ you click that button on all the posts you want to quote. When you've got them, just hit "quote" on one of the posts and it'll pull them all up for you.

And now back to your regularly scheduled coffee discussion:

You make a good point, Alex. I could see the appeal of enjoying a latte while letting my kid (if I had one) run around the playplace. After all, noisy kids don't exactly fit the "sophisticated" profile of a Starbucks or Peets.

Thanks, Goonie! I think I've got it now!

It might be nice to give parents more opportunities to make the "right" choices about bringing their children to appropriate venues- I have sipped my coffe next to a toddler more than once at a Starbucks.

[Alex]

Yes, it is the coffee smell that most people love that I loathe. On the other hand it gives me cantankerous joy when dragged along behind Lani to walk through a Starbucks/Peets/etc. commenting under my breath (but just loud enough) about how the place reeks.

It is only slightly better than a Body Shop store and almost as bad as walking through the cosmetics section of a Macy*s.

I can't honestly say that I find the greasy smell of a McDonald's all that great but it is magnitudes better (to me) than the smell of coffee. I don't eat a lot of McDonald's except when on the road but if they started to smell like coffee shops it would be a huge incentive for me to go elsewhere.

[Capt Jack]

McD and I parted ways eons ago. coffee or no, I dont see myself changing that.

[Kevy Baby]

I do have say that the current coffee (that McD's switched to a couple of years ago), is actually not too bad.

[blueerica]

I'm with Kevy... and as a coffee lover, I was pleasantly surprised that it was pretty good (plain, black) coffee that I got there. I still don't think I'm going there for lattes any time soon.