Arkansas Blog

How soon until Arkansas politicians try to give them millions of dollars to stay?

Roderick Bryan is a genius.

If they depended upon me to stay open they would have closed long ago. I love the carmel latte with some hot fudge, but it's a whole day's calories in one cup. Also, the price!! So, we concoct things at home and thank Starbucks for the idea... I do hate to see them close, though. It is a fun place and my grown kids all love it - just don't go as much as they did when gas was cheaper.

The one in Malvern has been open almost 1 whole month.

They're not gonna close the one announced for the Peabody/Convention Center are they? That one was going to put us on the map as THE city to host your convention! Wow, a FourBucks right there in our ho-tel!

Why, we've even got one in our grocery store up here it the elevated evirons of the Heights. Of course, this Kroger doesn't have enough space to carry many of the grocery items I desire, but what the heck, why worry about selling groceries when you can get a cut of $$ lattes.

"FourBucks" is right.

We love us some coffee in this household, but we drink it everyday of the world. We have our morning cups hot, but let the rest of the pot cool down. We pour it into some container, add some of that flavoring made for coffee (caramel, in our case), millk, and a shot of Hershey's syrup. Stir, cover, and put in the freezer. It's nice and slushy in the afternoon. Stir again, pour into glasses, and top with squirt whipped cream. It's about 75% as good as a frapuccino at about 25% of the cost.

(Use lowfat milk, skip the whipped cream if you must.)

What's the big deal? 8 Starbucks in Arkansas are closing? What's that, like 1% of the State's Starbucks? You can't swing a stick without hitting one.

I didn't start drinking coffee until I was about 45. I love plain ole Forgers or Maxwell House coffee with a splash of Half & Half, 2 in the morning and 2 after dinner does me up just right. But the idea of a free standing coffee house seems as dumb to me as a free standing light bulb only store.

And while endless legislation goes on to restrict unhealthy tobacco use, the same people will pay 4 bucks for a cup of coffee with a pound of sugary gunk poured into it. Thanks....but I'll take a large malt from Dairy Queen any day over Starbucks so called "coffee". TCBY yogurt was the rage of the age and when it faded as the fad it was, LR survived just fine. We'll be just fine again after all the Starbucks are gone. I think the next big fad will be undercooked pork fat on a stick. Everyone will be lining up to get themselves a Greaser. Forgive me, but I must run and patent that idea right this second!

Maybe the other Starbucks that closed here in Arkansas initially had a gnat's chance of success, but Blytheville, Malvern and Marion? Wasn't this an example of "What were they thinking?"
Me? I love great coffee and will occasionally spend bucks for it -- to brew at home. Once got a great coffee, Ethiopian Yirga. Hubby and I savored it to the last drop, as the saying goes. So when I found it at Wild Oats, I jumped all over it. Bad news. Either someone got it mixed up with floor sweepings or it had been in the hopper for four years. The Starbucks African Kitamu I bought at Target not long ago was almost as bad.
Guess I'm a slow learner, but super premium coffee is off the list, probably for good. From now on, coffee folks are gonna have to prove to me that the stuff will taste great when I get it home or I'll just buy the cheapest brand I can tolerate and the occasional POUND of Luziane.

East McCain, eh. It just so happens that I walked into that location for the first time ever today and was surprised to find it hopping at 9 am. They could have filmed a commercial for Starbucks there. Most of the tables were filled and the lines were three deep at both registers. There were even the ubiquitous lab top people appearing to run their multimillion dollar international businesses while enjoying their favorite morning beverage in a public place. Those people are always so hip, and yet so casual.

They didn't have bagels, so I left.

I'm glad you mentioned the Ethiopian coffee. There was a CRNA at the hospital who loved his coffee as much as I do and we talked 'coffee' often. He told me once that Ethiopan was by far the best and even brought me some the next day which I brewed at home (so I wouldn't have to share) and it was delicious. I bought a couple of bags when I found it and it was great for a while, but I think the coffee gods heard he was telling everyone to buy Ethiopian cause they started putting the leftovers in those bags and it isn't good at all now. It's a scam just like everything else.

Really? 4 stores within 2.4 miles of each other. Do they think they are some crappy dry cleaning operation or something?

This is great news for small local owned coffee shops (current and future) with real character.

jazzy, you can appreciate this:
When I quit drinking coffee it was using the Arlington blend and nothing but H.S. water from Happy Hollow spring which I carted to Fayetteville. For you affectionados keep in mind coffee, straight coffee, is 98% water. So pay attention to the medium used when making coffee bean soup.

Now we keep some coffee from god-only-knows-where for guests and to use as an insecticide for the garden. It's effective on a host of those tiny mites, most grasshoppers, cut worms. Mix it with some ginger, cayenne pepper and bring to a simmer for 5 min. Cool, strain, and add a few drops of dish soap to help it stick to leaves.

Spent some time in Costa Rica a few years back, fell in love with the coffee down there, and have drunk no other since. Just a personal opinion, but this household thinks coffee grown in the Tarrazu is the best of all Central American coffees. We order online; you can, too. Give it a try, especially the whole beans. Ya won't be sorry, and that's a promise. Blue name. (Also, check out cafebritt.com. Free shipping!)

Conway has opened three Starbucks in the past few years (one's in Target). I was wondering if one of them would get closed; guess not. I don't drink the stuff, and hubby drinks regular ol' grocery store coffee. He hates Starbucks. "Too much stuff" in the coffee, he thinks.

Malvern???!!!!!! I didn't think anyone in Malvern had $4.00.....
I got hooked on Community dark roast, in La. years ago. When we moved here no store in
town carried it. I kept WHINING to everyone in Kroger to please stock just a few bags,
see how sales went, they finally got tired of my WHINING and now I can buy it all over town....
nothing better, IMO, than cafe o' lait,,,,spoon has to stand alone in the cup.