In Naples...We All Must Be Coffee Fanatics!

Posted by V.K. [Mel] Melhado P.A. on Friday, March 16th, 2007 at 10:37am.

Maybe I show my age, but who would have ever thought that we would be paying $3.00 and more for a cup of coffee. Granted some of the offerings from Starbucks� are far more than your normal cup of coffee, but still, what am I missing. Everywhere you go in Naples, no matter which Starbucks� you go to there are lines literally out the door. And the funny thing is that it almost doesn’t matter what time of day either. Come to think of it, it’s not just Starbucks, it’s every coffee shop you go to, 7–Eleven or whoever. It just never ceases to amaze me that we are so driven for that great cup of � ‘joe’, that we will do almost anything to get it. Is it� because we feel that we aren’t fully dressed unless we have it? Maybe so! Funny too, I’m one of those who stand in line some 3 days a week to get my fix as well. And as I stand in the line waiting to be served, I’m constantly thinking that the Starbucks’ bottom line must be suffering somewhat, because it takes so long to make up some of those exotic coffee receipts and the line moves so frightfully slowly. Somehow, there must be a better way, but I guess that no one has discovered it as yet!