A Bean Water Tip

Beans are cheap.

Poor people eat beans to survive.

Some beans taste terrible.

Long ago, people figured out that you could grind up these nasty beans and run hot water over them to make a drink.

This drink is cheap to make - The ingredients are nasty beans and hot water.

This bean drink is called coffee.

A company called Starbucks has made a lot of money selling this cheap bean drink.

Is Starbucks making a profit?

Starbucks own website says that last year they "paid an average price of $1.42 per pound of green (unroasted) coffee".

If you grind up a pound of coffee beans that you paid $1.42 for, and run some hot water over them, how many cups of coffee could you make?

It really doesn't matter, because Starbucks charges way more than $1.42 for just one cup of coffee.

How much money does Starbucks make?

Starbucks has stores in all 50 states and 42 other countries around the world.

Starbucks figured out that if you put coffee in the refrigerator and then add a few spoonfulls of Nestle's Quick, that you can call it a "Mocha Frappacino Light Grande", and sell it to my wife for almost 5$.

Add wireless internet, and posers flock to Starbucks to waste their money on coffee and to be seen.

If that wasn't enough, Starbucks also sells over-priced pastries and CD's.

I gave my wife a Starbucks Card in her stocking.

According to Starbucks' website - "Starbucks Card, a reloadable stored-value card, surpassed the $2.5 billion mark for total activations and reloads since its introduction in 2001."

The other day, we were out shopping and stopped into a Starbucks drive-through for a Mocha Frappacino Light Grande.

There was a "Tip Jar" at the drive-through.

I totally lost it. I grabbed a pen and some paper, scribbled a note, and stuffed it into the tip-jar.

It read...

You have got to be f___ing kidding me.

I find it preposterous that you are asking me to supplement the income of your employees.

Do you think I am fooled into thinking that your employees are somehow like bartenders just because you call them "Baristas"?

Your "Baristas" are no different than the pimple faced teenager working at the McDonalds drive-through next door.

What is the most difficult task at Starbucks, making a Mocha Frappacino?

Maybe McDonalds should put a tip jar at their drive-through, because your fancy Mocha Frappacino machine looks a hell of a lot like the milk-shake machine at McDonalds.

Assembling a Big Mac or slaving over a fry vat has got to be more difficult than throwing a scone into a bag.

Here is a tip - Pay your employees out of your astronomical profits.

At least McDonalds sells delicious burgers and fries as opposed to bean-water and Kenny-G CD's