How's business in your town?

[LtDave32]

Dutch Bros sucks.

" Have some lemonade.."

" I don't want lemonade "

"But we have 67 different concepts of lemonade"

"peach lemonade, apple lemonade, blueberry lemonade.."

"I want coffee.."

"strawberry-banana lemonade, jicama-mint lemonade.."

"fuck-you-lemonade. do have fuck-you-lemonade? I could go for a large, half ice.."

 

[Marshall & Moonshine]

Dutch Bros sucks.

" Have some lemonade.."

" I don't want lemonade "

"But we have 67 different concepts of lemonade"

"peach lemonade, apple lemonade, blueberry lemonade.."

"I want coffee.."

"strawberry-banana lemonade, jicama-mint lemonade.."

"fuck-you-lemonade. do have fuck-you-lemonade? I could go for a large, half ice.."

I remember when it first came to Santa Maria a few years ago.
My ex was all excited.

All the goddam signs were there.

 

[LtDave32]

I remember when it first came to Santa Maria a few years ago.
My ex was all excited.

All the goddam signs were there.

We got one last year

-already a ghost-town. Almost zero traffic.

 

[SteveC]

I like the machines at Love's truck stops with the jugs of beans up top... tap the LCD screen, select, and it grinds and makes your coffee.... Damn good coffee....

Yes... we always stop it this one in VA, on the way to Orlando, for gas.... while I pump, wifey runs in for coffee.

 

[Marshall & Moonshine]

We got one last year

-already a ghost-town. Almost zero traffic.

There’s another one 10 minutes up the road in Nipomo, and another one again here in Arroyo Grande, 10 more minutes up the same road.
There’s probably one in SLO, but I don’t know or care where.
They’re so gross with so much sugar and coloring.
I’m not trying to pretend I’m Richard Simmons here, but I don’t see the appeal in an 1100 calorie drink unless it’s like 10 shots of tequila.

 

[edro]

I don't much care for the Triple Flappa Lappa Coffe Flavored Beetus Bomb Milkshakes.....

Beetus comas do not sound fun to me....

 

[Marshall & Moonshine]

I don't much care for the Triple Flappa Lappa Coffe Flavored Beetus Bomb Milkshakes.....

Beetus comas do not sound fun to me....

What if comas are the best vacations ever?
Wild dreams that go for weeks, months, years??
I’m gonna get a DNR when I get a chance, but it makes me wonder.

That said….

Last night’s dream ended with me waking up right before I was gonna be stabbed to death.

So maybe I should lay off the sugar a little.

 

[edro]

Wild dreams that go for weeks, months, years??

My luck, the gladiator next to me would say "It's Lions & Tigers day. Have fun out there....

Fuck.

 

[MikeyTheCat]

Best damn coffee I ever had was off the NJ Turnpike on Swedesboro Rd New Jersey in 1987. I was making trips every third weekend to Richmond where we had a condo and bringing our things down to it.
I stopped in this little coffee shop right off the Turnpike filled with farmers and truck drivers, and it was like going to heaven drinking a cup there.
I hit that spot damn near every trip, except one time I went there and there was no there there.
The ice cream shop was gone, Reno's Truck Repair was gone and the coffee shop was gone.
And I don't mean closed, I mean gone. Not a stick, stone or sign of those businesses, just nothing.
Almost had a Twilight Zone vibe.

 

[SteveC]

The best coffee I have ever enjoyed was at a little B&B down @edro's way - in a little village called Shannon.

Cecelia Weaver was the proprietor of this modest home.

And, every day around 5AM, she'd get up and cook us breakfast before we went to golf. She must have passed by now, bless her heart. She was in her late 70's back in '91.

The sounds and smell of that percolator in the morning (yes Virginia, a fucking percolator) is forever engrained into my mind.

And, the coffee.... I have had none better, anywhere on this planet.

 

[Marshall & Moonshine]

I’ve had the monkey cat shit coffee, and it’s by far the greatest cup I’ve ever tasted.

 

[Note Milker]

I remember seeing those perk-u-laters back in the 70's! As a kid I thought it was cool, seeing those bubbles and the sound. I wanted to try coffee, mom said, no.... Not old enough. I wouldn't stop, one day she finally let me try some. Shit! How the hell do they drink that crap?! And every day!

Let me at least go back to the other thing. I forgot go say there's some local action going on here in NC. Not all is lost. I will now try to blow some sunshine. We do have a new Toyota manufacturing site coming. Not sure if it's cars or batteries, I hope regular old cars, I fear batteries. I'll play along though, yeah. Go batteries. It brings jobs, Helps the local working man.

And another big deal is Wolfspeed, a new chip and wafer, silicon carbide.... Chips and diodes! That will bring good paying jobs! And some of our own damn chips. Mosfets too! Cool. The there's a little bit of new biotech popping up around here. A little scary, not my favorite. But again, it brings good paying jobs. So, things are still surviving around here.

Building houses too, condos, stuff going on. Bulldozers and back hoes. Action. Real estate is on the move.....People eating tacos and burgers, pizza. Drinking beer, breweries all over the place. Cork sniffing wine bars. Nothing is over. Except poor old Lumber Lickers.

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

A few weeks ago my wife had to go for lab work early morning and couldn't have any coffee before. I made just enough coffee for myself before we left and suggested stopping at the new Black Rock coffee shop that opened a few months ago near our house. We don't go to coffee shops as a rule but this was an exception.

So, on the way back we stop and go in and it must have been 60 degrees in the place. It was close to 90 outside. The employees were all wearing sweatshirts. My wife just wanted a regular coffee to go and ordered it. In the meantime I'm looking at the electronic menu board that changed so fast you couldn't read everything on it before it would change. There were no prices posted on it. On the counter there was a glass case with various bakery type items in it but nothing had a price next to them. I asked the girl at the counter why there were no prices. She said she didn't know. Then I asked her how anyone knows how much they are. She said when she scans them and rings them up. I took a picture and we left with the coffee.

Here's a pic- no prices.

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Did you at least leave tip?

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

Cecelia Weaver was the proprietor of this modest home.

And, every day around 5AM, she'd get up and cook us breakfast before we went to golf. She must have passed by now, bless her heart. She was in her late 70's back in '91.

Rigor Mortisist!

 

[Leee]

I wanted to try coffee, mom said, no.... Not old enough. I wouldn't stop, one day she finally let me try some. Shit! How the hell do they drink that crap?!

50 years later, I still haven’t got past that.
Arrested development maybe?
Don’t even like how it smells.

Had the same issue with beer as a kid.
But I worked harder to get over that one.

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

Rarely buy Coffee outside.
I brew it in the morning.
My wife takes two thermos and leaves for work.
I have one with breakfast and take two thermos to work.
It's crazy the amount of money we save!

 

[zak9990]

Here in Canada it's Tim Horton's coffee................ I think they're in the states too..?

 

[efstop]

Since I quit my lifetime job 4 1/2 years ago I don't go to Tims very often anymore. I can walk to a Tims here in less than 10 min, but the Keurig is right there.

 

[Pop1655]

My take on this whole thinking on this thing has undergone an epiphany the last few days. I’ve been in the new happening area north of Atlanta where the cool people are moving. I’m just a poor boy from a small town in Texas. I’ve never seen such an accumulation of wealth or the willingness to spend it. I haven’t seen a six figure house since I left Texas. Bright, clean shiny new shopping/eating areas with packed parking lots of new rides. Where dropping $250 to take the kids out to grab a bite on a Thursday evening is just normal stuff. You can almost see the cash just floating around in the atmosphere. Been racking my brain trying to put a pencil to it. Best I can figure it looks like you need about $350 a year to tread water. You can drive 30 minutes in any direction and it doesn’t end. I can’t for the life of me figure what these people do and how there can be so many of em. All pretty mind boggling.

 

[danohat]

They do computer stuff.