I just checked out the Starbucks blog to see some feedback from today's free pastry day. I didn't go myself, but it seems like some mixed experiences. No surprise I suppose.
With the free pastry day at Starbucks, I wondered what some other major coffee shops are up to in order to draw in the customers. Through an online search I discovered:
Caribou Coffee has a deal going on that a photo can be made "wilder" and once this is completed, a free wild cooler is earned. I checked out the Corner Bakery site but didn't see anything other than standard specials.
I also learned there is a database of Indie Coffee Shops with over 1961 coffee shops in over 906 cities. For those that prefer to support indie shops, that seems at first glance like it could be a cool resource. These would undoubtedly be "real" local shops, not the stealth shops recently in the news.
Illy appears to be focused on selling the machinery not the coffee itself so I didn't find anything there. Even a few clicks into the site in the away from home section, no specials there, sorry.
After this search for specials at major coffee chains that will likely be familiar to most people, I sit here thinking about two locally owned coffee shops in my old stomping grounds. Wonder what their specials are tonight.
Currently (de)Caffeinated, Dee
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