My missus told me about this last night and, naturally, I thought she was talking utter bollox but low and behold this crops up in the news today. Coffee chain Starbucks has begun asking its UK customers their names in a bid to appear more friendly. But do people really want to be on first name terms with their barista? Starbucks wants to get back to basics. "Have you noticed how everything seems a little impersonal nowadays?", its website asks wistfully. "We've all become user names, reference numbers and IP addresses. "From now on, we won't refer to you as a 'latte' or a 'mocha', but instead as your folks intended: by your name," the coffee chain claims. So, what name are you going to give? I am going to try Mr Soapy Titwank and see how it goes. "Tall latte for Soapy Titwank....is there a Soapy Titwank waiting?" It would be worth the price of their dire slop just to hear it!!
Saw the adverts for this last night & the too chirpy for 8 in the morning asseholes trying to force people into their shop earlier.
They wear name badges, write your name on the cup and voila - free coffee. At least it was until 12pm today anyway.
I lost my bank card in a machine whilst abroad last year - phoned the bank in a panic and they asked for my name. Itold them and they just said "do you mind if we call you by your first name?" Seriously - what the **** is that all about?
Champ Kind was down in the Bothwell Street one this morning. Stupid **** was asking me where my name originates from and stuff. No wonder he works in a coffee shop. <whammy>
Guy I went to school with called Alexander, but preferred getting called Sandy. He went nuts whenever anyone called him by his real name Also, funny story about his maw when the school took us on a trip to Ottakers for a book reading by JK Rowling before she was famous. We were early so went to a park at the bottom of a massive hill behind the swimming. His mum was helping out, tried to go down the hill but built up hundreds of momentum. Took a tumble and rolled down the muddiest bit
Clive Anderson is an ex-employee of Starbucks. Before he got his own TV show, he used to worked as a barista.
I'm proud to be a reprobate but when i was in customer service I was always told to refer to the customers as Mr this, Mrs that or "the annoying bitch who always blames the pakis for being overdrawn each month".
