Starbucks want to know your name. Good thing or Bad? Discuss.

**johnny k** · 02-01-2012, 05:38 PM

Next week give your account nuraber and sort code for a free muffin!

Tbh I couldn't care if they called me dick aslong as I'm not standing around waiting for my coffee for 10 minutes.

**imabtch** · 02-02-2012, 04:59 PM

"For the last time - it has a FIVE in the middle!"

**lmelgirl** · 02-03-2012, 05:09 AM

I would probably use the name I use at work - Crystal.

**Lola Goose** · 02-03-2012, 04:30 PM

Say your name is Mike Hunt.

Like in the film Porkys, Has anyone one seen Mike Hunt.

**THE KiNG OF POP** · 02-04-2012, 06:21 AM

There's a take-away place in Canary Wharf (in that big underground shopping centre) which asks for your name so they can call it when your sandwich is ready. The odd time when I'm in London, some colleagues and I go there and have a little competition to see who can give them the best name for them to shout out.

If I ever used Starbucks (I just can't bring myself to pay £3 for a coffee), I would do the same there.

**The Sex Fist** · 02-05-2012, 02:05 AM

I don't have a problem with it. By the way my name was Tiberius today, as in James Tiberius Kirk
Back to my local coffee vendor tomorrow, served by a rather attractive young lady who like to flirt a bit. Who asked me for my name and nuraber yesterday o_0.

**Adito** · 02-05-2012, 11:40 PM

American customer service does tend to be far superior to ours though. If you arn't comftable with it though no big deal you get to chose your own name for a bit.

**Y Knot** · 02-06-2012, 02:34 AM

From a comment poster on the BBC article about this:

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true Emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my skinny latte with an extra shot, in this life or the next!"

BBC News - Will you tell Starbucks your name?