Coffee Shop of Horror

I have a request for Starbucks Coffee. Make more parking spaces or get rid of the seating area. Fast food places and restaurants offer seating areas to allow customers to eat their meal. But at coffee houses like Starbucks, allow people to sit and chat just like bars, pubs or taverns. Much like these places, coffee houses sell nonalcoholic drinks to people who hang around for a while doing odd to normal stuff.

At one Starbucks location where I was forced to park in another shopping area and walk in 30 degree weather to purchase a Green Tea Latte for my wife, I became aware of this. Inside were a couple of kids doing their homework, one couple was engaged in a conversation with someone on a cell phone, two kids playing a Nintendo game against each other, a business meeting and one girl with headphones on and reading a book. It felt like I was at a bar from hell.

 Bars and coffee shops are both types of businesses that are exactly alike. Both sell drinks, food and have a similar environment with music and snacks. The only major difference is that coffee shops do not sell alcohol while the bars has a bit more life in it. That being the coffee shops felt like I was in a library and had to keep really quiet as to not offend anyone. Unlike the sports bar where everyone is cheering on their favorite team and if you need another round of drinks or hot wings, you would have to yell into the waitress’s ear for her to hear it.

At a coffee house people are still strangers to the other customers when they leave. At a sports bar, everyone is like family by the time the game has ended.