Friday, February 1, 2008
Not-lanta True courage
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Move over Gandhi, Audie Murphy, and Lech Walesa. -- this is true courage.
"The decision and the courage it takes to remove something when there's pressure on the business — like the sandwiches — is emblematic that we're going to build for the long-term and get back to the roots and the core of our heritage, which is the leading roaster of specialty coffee in the world."
— Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz, on the company's decision to stop selling sandwiches.
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I wish there was a local place like Aurora, San Fran Roasting Co., Inman Perk or Octane on the Peachtree corridor in Midtown where I live. All we gots is Starbucks (or Charbucks, as we coffee snobs call it due to their overly roasted beans). Local coffeehouse excellence should be represented on the main strip - hurry, and open one, someone, before the street car gets here and it's shining golden trail of utopian blissfulness causes all the available retail space to be overcrowded with yet more Starbucks.
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