(isn’t that kind of late in the day for caffeine)? Is it, perhaps, just the confusion I feel when I see a line of 10 cars all waiting for coffee at 4:30 p.m. Or is it, maybe, the fact that there are not one, not two, but three locally-owned coffee shops all within a couple blocks of this Starbucks, none of which have more than a handful of people in line on a given day, and most of which have lower prices-so why do people have to patronize the busy, expensive chain? Is it the fact that there are three different road signs that Milwaukee residents’ tax dollars paid to install just to tell people they can’t make a U-turn into the drive-thru during morning rush hour? Is it the fact that the cars are constantly blocking the sidewalk, the bike lane, and the street-and that drivers are largely oblivious to anyone crossing in front of them? Rest assured, I’ve had my fair share of Starbucks lattes in my day.īut this drive-thru business irks me, and it’s taken me a while to put my finger on exactly why. It’s not because I have a particular vendetta against Starbucks as a business. Sometimes when I’m walking by the Starbucks, I take an extra long time to make my way across the drive-thru area, really enjoying forcing those cars to wait a few additional seconds to get their Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew with Mocha Drizzle. And, for the last 11 months that I have lived here, it’s been slowly driving me insane. I walk past the coffee shop on my way to many neighborhood businesses, a local park, and my church. There is a Starbucks drive-thru three blocks from my house in a residential, but very much urban, neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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