BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 07:33 AM

i like a bit more coffee in my coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: JHW
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 07:05 AM

Sure I knew Whitbread own Costa (owned?) cos we don't go in pubs any more.
Hence the baristas are never called to the bar.

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 06:30 AM

Absolutely correct about the pronunciation, Sen - 'Laaaah-tay' drives me nuts! My American ex-boss used to also talk about 'Paaw-staaw' instead of 'Pasta' with the open vowels. Aaaaarrgghh!

BTW, I usually do another mile-and-a-half with the dog in the evening. I confess that my morning dog-walk can be less than four miles, depending on the weather (he hates rain and hot weather equally) but it's always two-and-a-half miles at least. My philosophy with all things is "Do it while you can" - it won't last forever!

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 06:10 AM

Gawd Backwoodsman, you walk FOUR MILES with your dog? Crumbs! Respect!

I've often wondered about the word 'latte'. It's Italian, not a language I've studied. But it makes me smile when people here pronounce it as 'lah tay', the 'lah' bit rhyming with 'far'.
The vowel isn't as open as the French 'la', but nearly so.
It's more of a 'lat-eh' (rhyming with cat)

Far canal eh? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 05:37 AM

My daily a.m. treat to myself, having walked four miles or so with my Border Terrier, is a medium skinny latté, which I get my local Costa to put in the Tim Horton's Thermos-cup that I brought home from my last trip to AB/BC. Still hot when I get it home, a very nice accompaniment to lunch.

My understanding from the staff at our Costa (whom I've become very friendly with, to the point of being given a freebie every now and again for being a 'regular') is that, although the business was owned overall by Whitbread, the retail units are franchised out and run as their own businesses by the franchisees.

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 04:34 AM

That reminds me Big Al, what the blazes is a 'barista' when it's at home?
Also, surely a male one would be a 'baristo'?

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 04:20 AM

I don't get Costa Coffee.
They're all supposed to be barista's

Yet all the stupid barista's make coffee that tastes like soapy water.

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 04:00 AM

Hahaha Dave, perhaps one should wear Coco Chanel perfume when in their café...
I never knew that Whitbread are actually the owners of Costa, Beefeater and Premier Inn

I drink neither coffee nor Coke, but my husband adores both. An amalgamation of the two (not in the same glass of course) would be his idea of bliss.
Being an old biddy, I've never managed to fathom what all the names of these coffees mean.
It appears there's latte, mocha, flat white (sounds like a rather bored Colonialist) americano, espresso and several others.

If we go in one of these places, I usually ask for a nice cup of tea and get the old eye-roll...

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 03:10 AM

They are a perfect alliteration match!

Subject: RE: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 18 - 10:17 PM

Have you ever heard of Dieseldorf Coffee in Guatemala?

There is an interesting tale of a fleeing Nazi officer with his beauty queen wife joining his archeologist father and starting a coffee plantation that is still expanding. I should make it a mini series:^/

Subject: BS: Costa Coffee sold to Coca-Cola
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Aug 18 - 07:37 AM

Story here

I admired Cosa's employment philosophy, but that is on hold.