Costa Coffee Gives Up

Costa in Totnes

Costa Coffee was founded in London in 1971 by the Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops. It was acquired by Whitbread in 1995, since when it has grown to over 1,700 stores across 28 countries.[3] The business has 1,375 UK shops, 920 Costa Express vending machines and a further 800 shops overseas.

Hey, Chris, and here I thought the English only drank (weak) tea! ;)
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Weak tea is only for Sunday afternoons when the vicar comes round...
I rarely drink tea, but when I do it is strong, black, and no sugar.
That is unless its Green Tea, in which case it is green....

Normal drink is strong black coffee.

Drinking weak tea is like drinking ice cold beer, all you experience is the temperature, not the full flavour.
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

When I was knee high to a grasshopper, my Gran used to offer the Vicar a sherry when he visited. In those days the local vicar always called round to greet new people moving in. It happened to us in 1956 when mum & dad bought our second house. I often wondered how they knew.

When I was knee high to a grasshopper, my Gran used to offer the Vicar a sherry when he visited. In those days the local vicar always called round to greet new people moving in. It happened to us in 1956 when mum & dad bought our second house. I often wondered how they knew.

Aw, c'mon now, we need the economy to recover sharpish....

..& the best way to do that is to give the "yuppies" what they want....

..a nice place where they can insult the workers & look down their noses at the rest, while they continue to fiddle while the UK burns!
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Interestingly these "coffee shops" seem to be a slightly "English" phenomena, in New York recently the ONLY place that didn't just sell "coffee" was Starbucks, every other cafe, deli, restaurant, just serves filter coffee.

Most of it a bit dire!!

Give Totnes a break :-)
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Not so -- there are a LOT of Starbuck wannabees out west.

Interestingly these "coffee shops" seem to be a slightly "English" phenomena, in New York recently the ONLY place that didn't just sell "coffee" was Starbucks, every other cafe, deli, restaurant, just serves filter coffee.

Most of it a bit dire!!

Give Totnes a break :-)

Just shows you what the power of the people can do when they stand together. Now if only they would do that against proposed new Tesco Supermarkets, they might start to get the message as well.

The peasants are revolting!

Costa

Not Costa but that other well known brand.

Special Report - Starbucks's European tax bill disappears down $100 million hole

(Reuters) - Starbucks told investors its European businesses made a $40 million (24 million pounds) profit in 2011, but accounts filed for its UK, German, and French units, which make up 90 percent of European revenues, showed a loss of $60 million.

Ahh, create a loophole and get pissed when it is used. Ahh.

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