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

[LONELYFOREVER]

Nuraber 7 would be good to use, I'm sure it would confuse some people.

[Ceila M]

Dont see whats wrong in giving your name and getting a more personal service.

[viky_khanna]

shhh! this is something for us to moan about, a British national sport!

[Billary]

But do they actually remeraber your name the next time you pop in?........if not then it is merely an "impersonal" personal touch, a Corporate blag in a world, where if we were to be honest, nobody really gives a damn about your name, unless of course it is Dollar!!.

I used to work in a shop twenty odd years ago and we knew all our customers by name................DAMN, I knew I should have patented that idea!!

[illiniguy]

I don't really see what the big deal is. It's not a good thing or a bad thing, IMO. It's just a... thing.

If that thing involved free coffee, so much the better

[browneyedgirl9285]

Go in with a few frienRAB:

Skinny latte for Spartacus

I'm Spartacus

No I'm Spartacus...

[enoxemy]

It's not really as a personal touch as such, it's so they can put your name on the cup so you know when your coffee is ready and which one it is.
Its actually a very sensible and practical thing to do.

I guess if you go to the same shop every day then they might remeraber you eventually but that's not really the point.

[Messed up Mikey]

As long as it means I get the coffee I ordered so much the better.

[MissV]

Also, if you buy a nuraber of coffees for people. It's a good way of giving them to the right person.

[livinloudon215s]

Although every coffee/tea shop I've gone to including chains when busy often write what you ordered on the side of the cup, so knowing which one hasn't been a problem, same in the states when I was over there last.