Hello coffee addicts,
I've gone to three Starbucks while being a tourist in France and I have to say, 2 out of 3 have sucked.
1. I go in one near Bastille in Paris, and Starbucks needless to say is nonsmoking, which is a big relief in a place like France. But after I sit down some dumbo French dope walks in with a lit cigarette and sits down, without being told by anyone who works there that he can't enter with a cigarette. Idiots! I resolved the situation eventually.
2. I go in another one, I order just one item and sit down to read. I take off my shoes and put my foot up on a chair, which, in the USA is 100% OK at the fifty or so Starbucks I've been to throughout the US -- so long as you take off your shoes of course! At this French Starbucks however some jerkoff worker approaches wearing a yellow shirt, which is against Starbucks regulations, not only tells me to put my foot down but clearly is already pissed off and gives me a hand sign as if to say "better not do it again". Little f***er! I should have smacked him upside the head. Later I called up to talk to the manager and he says he wanted me to come all the way to the cafe to complain in person. Yeah right! I did my part entirely and he wants more! This was the store at the pompidou center in paris. I also tried complaining to headquarters via email but unsurprisingly it appears that feature is broken on the Starbucks.fr website.
Starbucks in France experiences 165Julia Altshuler It was definitely worse in Pigaille than in other places, but it was not limited to there. Granted, they were a little more subtle about it in nicer areas. I didn't have a...
3. I go to another place, the Starbucks at Odeon metro station in Paris and both the French workers and the one British worker are cool about everything and very polite and accommodating in every way. This is especially good news because this is in an area where the regular French cafes price-gouge everybody, as in $3 for an espresso. I recommend this Starbucks.
So there you are.
