"I can't just get a job in a coffee shop and come back in a year, " he says.
In China, the brand has positioned itself as a destination for the upper middle class, where the consumers can get a high quality coffee experience.
"We just went to get a cup of coffee, and there's no line at Dunkin' Donuts, " said electrician Joe Gore, who was sipping his java on a picnic table bear Rowes Wharf, where he was helping wire a new Starbucks.
She is friendly and welcoming, and the two of them seem like they couldn't be happier, but suddenly you find yourself wondering, OK, so there is a marble hammam and a bed that could sleep a family of 12, but can you get a cup of coffee around here?
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But what is the point of being a latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving progressive if you can't get a decent cup of coffee?
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You can still get a donut for 40 cents, and a cup of coffee.
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The city is definitely different, I have a group of girlfriends, we get together and go for coffee two, three times a week.
The White House's coffee get-togethers were a lucrative part of Democratic fund-raising last year.
He recalls what happened during a recent morning walk to get coffee.
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Like Sisyphus, I get up every morning, grab a cup of coffee, and sit at my desk.
"We use a splash-guard coating on our phones to help with the accidental coffee spill or when you get caught in the rain, " a spokeswoman for the company told CNN.
"Because I didn't drink coffee, he was assigned to get me a chocolate doughnut, " she told an audience that included Michael Douglas and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Back in 1976, the Soviet Union was a superpower, there was only one kind of Coca-Cola and if a coffee shop tried to charge its customers four bucks for a cup of joe, it would get run out of town.
In 2007 I was involved in a trial where I used an early NFC phone to get access to London's transport system and pay for a coffee or a sandwich.
Hence, a small logo on a jar of coffee means politically-minded consumers get to pay more for their daily cup, comfortable in the knowledge that the farmers who grew those coffee beans receive a decent price for their crop.
Among the cool new features, iPhone 5 will come with a new Maps app with Siri-powered turn-by-turn directions and a Passport app that will store digital versions of your affinity cards, boarding passes, tickets, coupons and, eventually credit and debit cards, so you can get on a plane or into a stadium or pay for a Starbucks coffee by flashing a bar code on the phone.
Service stations pay their bills on money made when people go inside to get things like coffee and Ring Dings, which are often sold at a decent mark-up.
"I like brands that have a go, and Starbucks is trying to break the conventions of selling coffee in big coffee chains - it's a solid attempt to get closer to the customer, " Guilar adds.
He explained that "whereas you might get frustrated when the waitress at the counter gives you the wrong coffee, " after a recent trek he was so inured to adversity that he spent a couple of hours outdoors without even noticing it was pouring.
Things tend to slow down for people in December so they might actually have the time to squeeze in a quick coffee with you (or, if not, you can at least get on their calendars now for after the New Year).
"You don't get your eureka moments sitting in the lab, as much as you do talking to a colleague over coffee, " says Alan Fish, Johns Hopkins's vice president for real estate.
Among the rooms that feel the most personal are the bedroom and sitting room where you can get a sense of what he saw when he woke up, from his snail clock on the glass coffee table to the mirror positioned so the rising sun hit his face.
"You can get room service, you can get maid service, there's a restaurant and a bar downstairs, there's even little cafes and coffee shops, " says Patel.
And he tapped a California mountain-bike maker to build bare-bones models that the farmers could pedal to get freshly picked coffee to the stations faster.
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