Yesterday at Houston\u2019s Bush airport (near gate E-1) I went to \u2018Peet\u2019s Coffee\u201d and asked for Masala Chai. I thought that instead of the regular Starbucks chai, let me try the chai from this chain. Chai from Starbucks is my favorite drink outside my house.<\/p>\n
First the employees didn\u2019t know what was going on and nobody knew how to make it. They kept fumbling. Finally when they gave me and I went to my gate I realized after a while that it was so rank bad that I couldn\u2019t drink more than a few sips!<\/p>\n
And that made it abundantly clear why Starbucks as a coffee chain is so formidable! Let me share how I want my Chai \u2013 I want it \u201cNo Water-No Foam\u201d. Now, Chai concoction comes as a water mix which is steamed with milk to come up with Chai at these chains. I realized early on that some of these chains would add additional water to the already watery concoction. Perhaps, for the American audience. But I wanted my Chai strong and hard.<\/p>\n
No-Foam is a VERY<\/strong> strict policy of mine. Foam is air. Since I ain\u2019t paying you with air, can you abstain from giving me air please, thank you very much! I pay for Chai, give me Chai not air. But honestly, in all the chains I have been to \u2013 Border\u2019s Seattle Coffee or Dunking Donuts or this Peets outfit.. nowhere have I ever been served my Chai with foam as diligently removed as at Starbucks! One gal at Borders even started fighting with me that foam is a given. I had a strong mind of paying her half the money and imagine the rest half is in the air, as it is \u201cgiven\u201d!<\/p>\n Customer Service is key to retaining good customers, and no other coffee chain knows it as well as Starbucks. No other chain knows my Chai as well as Starbucks. Just that they annoyingly keep calling it Chai Tea<\/em>! Guys, if you are reading this \u2013 Chai MEANS<\/u> Tea in Hindi! So, its a rather stupid phrase.<\/p>\n I have had my beverages at Indian cafe stores also, but they are again so rank bad that what takes Starbucks a couple of minutes, takes 30 minutes at Cafe Coffee Day or at Barista! I understand that there are Cafe\u2019s in Europe that are leisurely and that is where the concept came from. But heck, a chain should have better sense and look to have a higher turnover of the customers! If you aren\u2019t converting your time into money, then you are basically booking losses! So Indian Cafes have productivity lower by the magnitude of 30x, if not more!!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday at Houston’s Bush airport (near gate E-1) I went to ‘Peet’s Coffee” and asked for Masala Chai. I thought that instead of the regular Starbucks chai, let me try the chai from this chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,54,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-personal","category-regular_blog_post"],"yoast_head":"\n