Yes, I can understand the desire not to ingest coffee that's been sitting out longer than I've been alive, but in typical SC fashion, and having worked in a coffee place - it can be taken to extremes.
Case 1:
This didn't happen to me, but to my friend, who worked in the Tim's before I did. Gentleman walks up to her and demands a fresh cup of coffee, refusing to deal with the lowly pots that have been sitting for anywhere from five to fifteen minutes (my store was strict about the "refresh every twenty minutes rule).
Fortunately for this intrepid soul, a new pot was just finishing. Huzzah! Cue the freaking marching band! He leans forward intently, his eyes focused on the coffee machine as if she will swipe the pot with week old swill if he has a lapse in attentiveness. Together, they watch the last few drops amble into the pot, seemingly in slow motion. She pours him the coffee and he marches off triumphantly into the sunset - by that meaning his table...
... until he came back two minutes later and said the coffee wasn't fresh.
Case 2:
This happened to yours truly.
Now I'll admit that decaf is probably the redheaded bastard stepchild (tm) of the coffee game; it's a fact that a lot of people don't drink it. So sometimes, it can be neglected.
Of course this woman knows the score. OF course, it's in the middle of the rush, so she simply must demand that we put on a new pot of decaf for her. That's fine, she'll wait. No problems till this point, because, I'd actually been planning to make one the second I was through with my line. Heck, she even has the decency to let me serve other customers while it brews. Give the lady a Nobel Prize for Patience. They have those, don't they?
It doesn't take long to brew a pot of coffee at Tim's.
In fact, it takes five minutes. Literally, it's on the tape; every single pot of coffee takes five minutes from the time you put the grinds in, put the pot under the drip and push the button. Five minutes. Every time. I used to put on a pot when I had five minutes left on my shift just to avoid looking at the clock.
Her first comment when she gets to the front of the line: "Well that took a long time."
Five minutes. Who knew?
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Anyone else have any good coffee or caffeine (or decaf!) related stories?
Case 1:
This didn't happen to me, but to my friend, who worked in the Tim's before I did. Gentleman walks up to her and demands a fresh cup of coffee, refusing to deal with the lowly pots that have been sitting for anywhere from five to fifteen minutes (my store was strict about the "refresh every twenty minutes rule).
Fortunately for this intrepid soul, a new pot was just finishing. Huzzah! Cue the freaking marching band! He leans forward intently, his eyes focused on the coffee machine as if she will swipe the pot with week old swill if he has a lapse in attentiveness. Together, they watch the last few drops amble into the pot, seemingly in slow motion. She pours him the coffee and he marches off triumphantly into the sunset - by that meaning his table...
... until he came back two minutes later and said the coffee wasn't fresh.
Case 2:
This happened to yours truly.
Now I'll admit that decaf is probably the redheaded bastard stepchild (tm) of the coffee game; it's a fact that a lot of people don't drink it. So sometimes, it can be neglected.
Of course this woman knows the score. OF course, it's in the middle of the rush, so she simply must demand that we put on a new pot of decaf for her. That's fine, she'll wait. No problems till this point, because, I'd actually been planning to make one the second I was through with my line. Heck, she even has the decency to let me serve other customers while it brews. Give the lady a Nobel Prize for Patience. They have those, don't they?
It doesn't take long to brew a pot of coffee at Tim's.
In fact, it takes five minutes. Literally, it's on the tape; every single pot of coffee takes five minutes from the time you put the grinds in, put the pot under the drip and push the button. Five minutes. Every time. I used to put on a pot when I had five minutes left on my shift just to avoid looking at the clock.
Her first comment when she gets to the front of the line: "Well that took a long time."
Five minutes. Who knew?
*
Anyone else have any good coffee or caffeine (or decaf!) related stories?
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