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You are lucky you are sitting down as you read this. I was driving when I heard it!

Evidently McDonald's is putting coffee bars under the Golden Arches of many of their restaurants and they will begin to make custom coffee drinks like lattes and cappuccinos. I'm not sure if Starbucks is "worried" because McDonald's is the restaurant that introduced us to Chicken McNuggets "formed" with chicken parts and McRib sandwiches that contains a rib meat shaped patty without any bones. Who knows, McDonald's does do things with excellence and they research and usually make good decisions. However, Starbucks has the brand name and people's expectation as well as the total experience that will trump any fast food environment. Moreover there's the aroma…that might be a draw back to McDonald's experience, fries frying up in the deep fryer and mingled with fresh espresso…um, I don't know about that.

I'll try anything once so I'll probably experience the McDonald's version someday soon. Let me know where the nearest coffee serving McDonald's is!

This entry was posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 9:15 am and is filed under change, coffee, expectations, fun, random, trivial. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.