I only drink drink Starbucks bc it’s free😅😅

Pre-Covid, I always met friends at different local-owned coffee shops rather than starbucks.

As soon as it is safe again, I will be doing the same. I am not paid enough to give money back to starbucks. I refuse!

It is a very common occurrence for me to clock out, go home & shower & change clothes, then go to a local coffee shop that has lavender honey oat milk lattes, the best drink on the planet that Starbucks doesn't have lol

starbucks and dunkin. starbucks cause it’s free and dunkin’ cause it’s ridiculously cheap

edit: also where i live i don’t have any local coffee shops :(

Theres a huge difference between Starbucks and local places.

Cant lie, even DD has better black coffee.

Locally, I prefer Dunkin' (PS... If you take the survey on the receipts, you get a free donut, and the large iced coffees with cream and syrup are under $3 with tax where I live - that's $3 for breakfast, heck yes!!!!). One time I forgot to take my Starbucks hat off after a shift and wore it into Dunkin', long story short, the Dunkin' team members all thought it was so funny.

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Other than locally, there are two "gourmet" coffee shops that I prefer. The quality of their drinks are 1,000,000x better than Starbucks, and the prices are equivalent or within $1-2.

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I will say though that there is nothing quite like a peppermint mocha around the holidays, especially when I travel from Florida up north in the cold weather. So, in a way, Starbucks will have my heart for 2 months of the year, and the other 10 months, it is Dunkin' or someplace else all the way :)

I always prefer to buy it from local shops but I have months worth of Starbucks bean mark outs ground and frozen

dutch bros