Jerks.
First wine, now sodasâŚwhen do we get to margaritas?
Hmm. Soda machine, coffee, milk, syrups⌠letâs get some old-timey egg creams on the menu! Now that would really be taking the whole brooklyn/hipster/artisanal/hand-crafted/ thing to a national chain level.
Well, I guess if they can find people willing to pay $2.45 for some carbonated water with about four cents worth of flavored sugar in it, I canât really fault them for charging that much. (Plus they have all those college educations theyâre not paying forâŚ)
Well at this rate, theyâll have them, but theyâll be $20 a drink.
And now, a word from their spokesperson:
So⌠Italian sodas then?
Isnât that kind of normal rates for soda from any sort of establishment? I mean Iâm used to seeing a glass of soda at a restaurant for 2 bucks so I donât really see that as a weird cost. Sure thereâs a huge markup there, but itâs not without precedent, is all Iâm saying.
I confess that I donât buy sodas (if I have a hankering for a soft-drink, theyâre easy enough to make), and certainly not in any sort of restaurant, so I have no idea. At least in the case of restaurants, itâs (enormous, granted) markup on a product thatâs already been sold at a profit to the restaurant. This is a house product being sold for more than other more labor-intensive beverages made from more expensive ingredients, so it sticks out.
Thatâs exactly what I thought. But saythey offered a nice gin fizz I wouldnât complain.
Yeah, itâs totally not anything like the âItalian sodasâ that espresso stands here in Seattle have been offering since the late 80s, at least.
Only if itâs gluten-free will I even touch this hand-crafted, artisanal, designer sugar water that doesnât put kids through college but pretends to do so.
Yeah, but these are âhand-crafted.â
Though I enjoy the ocassional Pikes place drip, I still want to shake her hand for including âgluten freeâ in your response 
I like sbux coffee, but Iâm not very picky about coffee either.
Starbucks is consistently mediocre (and I donât mean that in a bad way, just decent) coffee, in my opinion. Iâve been to some absolutely shitty coffeeshops before, and before the whole espresso starbucks craze hit your coffee options in most places were shitty drip thatâd been sitting on a burner for way too long, so I consider it a net positive.
I go to starbucks often enough I have a gold card in my wallet but I will generally go to better coffee places when possible (Top Pot Doughnuts makes especially great espresso for whatever reason.) but they donât have the ubiquity of Starbucks, so I end up there frequently.
Starbuckses have had generous assortments of Torani syrups for as long as I can remember, and probably fizzy water on tap too. Havenât we always been able to order a [syrup flavor] soda? Whatâs new about this, aside from the stupid name and attendant adjectives?
Where is the video of that to watch?
Seeing as how restaurants tend to charge $2.75 for an iced tea, this really does not seem like a relatively unfair price.
Iâm curious what flavors they will offer, mostly as inspiration for making them myself at home. Meanwhile at SBUX Iâll stick with the clover-brewed iced coffee most likely.
Oddly, Top Potâs doughnuts arenât all that much cop. Theyâre a novelty brand more than a baker. See also: Cupcake Royale.
