{"id":2023,"date":"2008-02-27T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2008-02-27T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:31:58","slug":"the-carlsbadistan-starbucks-stops-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"The Carlsbadistan Starbucks Stops Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/starbucks.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/starbucks.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=750,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/starbucks-tm.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Starbucks\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only did every single <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Starbucks Coffee<\/a><\/strong> location in the nation close yesterday at 5:30 PM for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/industries\/retail\/article\/starbucks-espresso-training-delivers-promise-best-customer-experience_496307_7.html\" target=\"_blank\">employee reprogramming<\/a><\/strong> (&#8220;When customers arrive at their Starbucks store tomorrow morning, they will be greeted with the following promise: Your drink should be perfect, every time. If not, let us know and we&#8217;ll make it right&#8221;), but more importantly, our Starbucks is closed for a complete remodel. <\/p>\n<p>And by that we mean, completely ripped up all the way down to the concrete floor. The salty-lookin&#8217; old dudes who normally hang outside in the chairs by the window and give every woman the vertical scan have been replaced by tile cutters and saw-horses.<\/p>\n<p>An inked-up worker who referred to us as &#8220;Boss,&#8221; said we shouldn&#8217;t worry because the place will be re-opened by next &#8220;Wednesday or Thursday;&#8221; hopefully, with those new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/02\/12\/BU70V0BCD.DTL&amp;type=tech\" target=\"_blank\">AT&#38;T Internet connections<\/a><\/strong> that give all pre-paid Starbucks card users two free hours of wireless a day. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did every single Starbucks Coffee location in the nation close yesterday at 5:30 PM for employee reprogramming (&#8220;When customers arrive at their Starbucks store tomorrow morning, they will be greeted with the following promise: Your drink should be perfect, every time. If not, let us know and we&#8217;ll make it right&#8221;), but more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}