http://www.arizona-coffee.com/2010/when-is-a-coffee-shop-not-a-coffee-shop Great coffee comes in small doses Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.arizona-coffee.com/2010/when-is-a-coffee-shop-not-a-coffee-shop/comment-page-1#comment-81651 Psyd Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:53:47 +0000 http://www.arizona-coffee.com/?p=2998#comment-81651 On the fora, I think I decided that it's still a coffee shop regardless of whatever else is offered if the barista is manning the coffee paraphernalia, and cooks are cooking and cashiers are cashiering, and the baristi are not distracted from their primary focus. Getting you the best coffee that they're able to. If you have to wait for coffee while the 'barista' works the microwave, or makes a sammy, or pulls a quick sundae, you've entered the 'not a coffee shop' zone. On the fora, I think I decided that it’s still a coffee shop regardless of whatever else is offered if the barista is manning the coffee paraphernalia, and cooks are cooking and cashiers are cashiering, and the baristi are not distracted from their primary focus. Getting you the best coffee that they’re able to. If you have to wait for coffee while the ‘barista’ works the microwave, or makes a sammy, or pulls a quick sundae, you’ve entered the ‘not a coffee shop’ zone.

]]> http://www.arizona-coffee.com/2010/when-is-a-coffee-shop-not-a-coffee-shop/comment-page-1#comment-81634 Artur | Central Phoenix Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:03:42 +0000 http://www.arizona-coffee.com/?p=2998#comment-81634 If the place alluded to in the quote is a coffee shop then so is Circle K, so is McDonalds etc. In my opinion a coffee shop is a place where the coffee takes center stage: it is the reason you go there, but it also puts coffee on a higher pedestal then say a drive thru with mostly flavored coffee, but the more I think about it the more grey areas arise. If the place alluded to in the quote is a coffee shop then so is Circle K, so is McDonalds etc.
In my opinion a coffee shop is a place where the coffee takes center stage: it is the reason you go there, but it also puts coffee on a higher pedestal then say a drive thru with mostly flavored coffee, but the more I think about it the more grey areas arise.

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