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...scene could have passed for a paid advertisement: a barista at a New York City coffee bar informed a customer that the café had run out of Splenda, the sugar substitute in the bright yellow packets. To the customer, it was tantamount to betrayal. "Are you very sure?" he asked, offering to settle for Equal or Sweet'n Low. But all that was left was sugar. The man shook his head (sugar!), pushed his cup back across the counter and demanded a refund...
...ourselves seeking gainful employment for the months ahead. Incidentally, most of Harvard’s dining hall workers are conducting the same search. But while we gallivant down to New York for that Goldman-Sachs internship we just happened to get or settle with a sigh into being a barista at a hometown Starbucks, many of the people who provide meals for us every day wonder how they’ll feed their own families come June. This is one of the many concerns of the Student Labor Action Movement’s (SLAM) latest campaign to improve...
...which abuts the now-vacant lot, claims the place closed due to “bad location of the restaurant, since it is so far back,” nestled awkwardly up a ramp between an artsy tea shop and a staid office complex. In contrast, says the Dado barista, “we do well, and Fire & Ice does well.” However, Phatt Boys’ closing was not simply a result of its unfortunate location. Theodore E. Chestnut ’06, a Senior Class Marshall, says “the reason Phatt Boys...
...music industry, struggling with the challenge of illegal downloading, is delighted by the new sales outlets. Starbucks' biggest score to date came from Ray Charles' final album, Genius Loves Company, which sold nearly a third of its 3 million copies at barista stations. That success has lent Starbucks new clout with music companies. Madonna's Maverick label gave Starbucks an exclusive six-week window to sell Alanis Morissette's all-acoustic version of her first hit album, Jagged Little Pill, and the coffee company is launching a new girl group, Antigone Rising, whose debut CD (from Lava Records) is available...
Becca A. Donavon, a barista at Toscanini’s, a coffee shop conveniently located right across the street from Wigglesworth dormitory, has noted the literal and figurative consumption of Harvard students. “They surprise me,” she says. “They seem to consume more than the regular people who come in—they buy the more expensive [drinks] than the regular people that come in during the day.” Donovan estimates that about 50% of Toscanini’s customers are students, and believes they are buying their mochas...