I'm not sure how it happened, but this tracks with my personal experience. 15 years ago the local stabucks had a fireplace, was meticulously clean, was busy but had seating, and generally was a place I associated with a really pleasant feeling.<p>Now my local one is more dirty than a McDonalds (perhaps people using up seats are seen as unprofitable), the drinks are even more expensive, and my stomache absolutely cannot handle their drinks (is it the acid, the sugar, or what?).
Great. The place that sells overpriced coffee that smells and tastes like scorched dogshit that literally nobody can afford along the likes of McDonalds raising their prices so high during COVID-19 that everybody's just now feeling the 'ah fuck' effects from meets the asshole that skimped out on everybody's food portions by them getting half meats at the stores so store managers could get mega bonuses for reduced operational costs? Pickup driver orders from ride-apps would be like 1/4 the size because complaints go through the deliveries.<p>Then play stupid saying 'Oh, most of our stores were doing that.'<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2024/07/25/some-chipotles-actually-were-skimping-on-portion-sizes-but-generous-servings-are-priority-chipotle-ceo-says/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2024/07/25/some-...</a><p>Puh-Lease.