Pour One for the Homies at Starbucks
Sunday, May 18th, 2008I was at Starbucks yesterday for a blueberry scone and grande coffee, and asked them to leave room for cream. After, as I stood at the counter pouring it and the sugar into the cup, I watched three other people come over and pour out the top quarter of their drinks and begin to also add cream and sugar. Which got me to thinking…
What with all the “green” talk these days and fears of being wasteful of anything (I’ve even taken to washing out and recycling my plastic sandwich baggies), it seems, well…wasteful to just pour perfectly good and *expensive* coffee into the garbage like that. Just think about how many people do that at one Starbucks, let alone any coffee establishment, in a given morning.
And then it hit me. As I watched another guy pour out his coffee, I was this……….close to asking him if it was “for the homies” (I decided not to lest he think this Crazy was trying to hit on him or something). But it made me smile and maybe it will make you do the same.
I don’t know what Starbucks would do with all that coffee, but maybe they could turn it into some kind of “science fair thingie” and have a community bucket where people dump that excess instead of throwing it out.
Or they could turn it into a charity type thing where when the bucket level reaches a certain point, they then would donate like a $1 or something for some water project or free trade thing somewhere in the world.
And even though it’s not like they could resell it or anything, I think it might encourage people to think about their own wasteful habits and give them an opportunity to take a portion of their purchased product that they would normally throw out and turn it into a donation.
I don’t know. It’s not really a fully cultivated thought. But they might want to look into something like that because, you know, they’re actually closing Starbucks these days.
P.S. I’m making my own coffee at home this morning.
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