Move over Starbucks - Krispy Kreme rocks

Starbucks has hundreds of new stores opening, and many more scheduled. Target stores have them, coffee carts inside offices sell overpriced stale cups (my office cafetaria made crappy coffee so that we were forced to head to the cart!) and so on. People stop at their drive throughs every morning, spending atleast $2.00 (assuming they just get a plain coffee) every single morning! With 52 weeks a year, 5 working days a week, thats $520 a year!

I can never understand the Starbucks concept. I can give the laptop show-offs the benefit of doubt; they may be business travelers or people new to town who do not have internet connections yet, or people on vacation who have to desperately check their email. But, why do so many people sit there and just read books and old newspapers? why won't they go home? Students bring their books and "study"!!??! (the height was even desi students in my university would do this in the coffee shop at the Borders bookstores - would they sit in saravana bhavan and do assignments? edhukku indha vetti vilambaram?!!)



For some genuinely good coffee, try Krispy Kreme's coffee next time. Get the smallest size; as they fill the cup to the brim with black coffee, pour away 1/4 of the cup and fill it to the top with half-half and add 1.5 packets of sweetener. Its almost as good as madras coffee (and it better be, they claim their coffee is as good as their doughnuts)