Starbucks Japan to switch to green plant-based straws

Went to have their very sugary frappy’s and they didn’t have a fat straw to drink it with. Impossible to drink with a thin straw. Doesn’t anyone think anymore?

Still straws, tho.

Why is Starbucks so popular in Japan. 100 yen coffee from convenience stores is tastier. I think people who drink Starbucks use it as a status symbol. They walk around holding their cup high so people can see. I’ve never seen people hold other cups like that. The staff must teach them how to do it.

Why is Starbucks so popular in Japan. 100 yen coffee from convenience stores is tastier.

In your personal opinion.

Big I think people who drink Starbucks use it as a status symbol.

Maybe a few, but overall, I think people like the taste, in Fukuoka alone we have over 70 always busy, always full.

They walk around holding their cup high so people can see. I’ve never seen people hold other cups like that. The staff must teach them how to do it.

Not sure about all of that, lol!

Many customers use Starbucks for the wifi use including some JT posters. The coffee is only mediocre.

You guys are right. It’s mediocre coffee but they try try give the impression of quality and status. They are even open about it with a goggle search. As for use it for WiFi everywhere her WiFi now. I think 10 years ago yes but not now. In fact I found starbucks WiFi slow. But as for straws I think it’s a marketing effort to increase costs. And their drinks are full of sugar which sometimes I want. But impossible to drink them thru a thin straw.

You guys are right. It’s mediocre coffee but they try try give the impression of quality and status.

I mean, that’s their business model. I personally order tea when I go there, I don’t order their coffee, too sweet for my tastebuds, but my family loves it.

They are even open about it with a goggle search. As for use it for WiFi everywhere her WiFi now. I think 10 years ago yes but not now. In fact I found starbucks WiFi slow.

WOW! If you found a Starbucks where the WiFi is slow, you need to report it because they usually have one of the best WiFi Free services around. I do love their WiFi.

But as for straws I think it’s a marketing effort to increase costs.

Yes

And their drinks are full of sugar which sometimes I want. But impossible to drink them thru a thin straw.

Yes, I think that’s why they’re getting rid of those horrible paper straws, but I will say this, Starbucks coffee overall is mediocre, I agree with you, but their giant upscale shop Roasters does serve very good premium coffee and I think they only have 5-7 stores globally. You can definitely taste the quality difference.

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I don't use any external wifi services. My DATA plan covers all of my needs anywhere I go.

リッチToday  07:24 am JST You guys are right. It’s mediocre coffee but they try try give the impression of quality and status.

So, it's mediocre coffee and they're just trying to give the impression of quality and status and yet you go there and order a drink that's ¥700+? I mean, I agree that it's mediorce coffee at best and that's why I don't go there. It's easy enough to make good coffee at home, even the frozen or flavored drinks, and to just take it out with me or to get something either equally mediorce or even better and for far less the price.

But impossible to drink them thru a thin straw.

You may want to get your lung power checked or just wait until the drink melts a little. I can't honestly say that I or anyone I know finds it impossible to drink frappuccinos and the like through a regular straw. Barring that, carry a sturdy, washable straw with you, if you've got a bag of some sort. Yes, I know plenty of people who do that.

Doesn’t anyone think anymore?

Good question.

i used to buy french roast beans, good stuff. hate the wood chairs meant to drive out of the place.

but 7-11 coffee is superb.

The lid on the cups are still plastics, too bad it doesn't have video of hurt by it.

I don't use any external wifi services. My DATA plan covers all of my needs anywhere I go.

But if you’re a traveler it’s great to have access to free and fast internet service

Went to Hawai. With the actual exchange rate, it was a minimum of 1000 yens for a Starbucks coffee. American size, with quantity.

I think people like the seats and relax at Starbucks.

I prefer conbinis coffee, to drink while driving.

Why would I need a straw to drink coffee?

Paper straws are clearly inferior. Let's hope these do better.

Don't drink Starbucks much but in general I find paper straws disgusting, so this is a welcome move.

People’s comments on the quality of Starbucks coffee has nothing to do with this story, which is about straws.

I'm glad they're switching away from paper straws. But wouldn't bamboo straws be a good replacement? Bamboo is massively abundant and cheap here.

Oh, what a big impact Starbucks. On Okinawa, Japan's smallest prefecture and in the bottom half of prefectures population-wise. Plastic lids on paper coffee cups? Yeah, didn't think so. A mere publicity stunt.

FYI it’s not free WiFi it’s paid you pay for the drink. The one in shinjuku even locks the toilet door and requires you to buy a drink before they will give you the code to open it. And their WiFi speed is like 50mb. My 5G is about 400mb so it’s slow. And as for lung power (haha) the chocolate flakes get stuck. If you have the lung power to get them thru I bet you are very popular with the boys. Hehe

If they actually recycled like they’d have us believe, plastic straws wouldn’t be an issue. If they don’t recycle, then why do they ask us to separate plastic trash at the shops? This goes for any restaurant that purports to oppose the use of plastic straws or packaging.

Starbucks coffee is muck anyway conbini coffee is way better !

The one in shinjuku even locks the toilet door and requires you to buy a drink before they will give you the code to open it.

Turning into the UK.

Sounds like a good idea. Paper straws were never good to drink from.

On the discussion about Starbucks as a coffee house, if I go there I will just drink a cup of the daily - and it's not bad for a couple of hundred yen. Doesn't blow my socks off, but it's perfectly serviceable coffee. I don't touch their other offerings, but what I do get at Starbucks in Japan is a quiet place to sit, with a little ambience, some background music, quiet customers, in a usually pretty nice environment. So it's more the overall package than the coffee itself I'm there for.

About 7 years behind the rest of Starbucks outlets.

Meanwhile they use nitrous oxide in their whip cream canisters that causes a million times more issues for the planet than plastic straws (which are actually recyclable).

This is just green washing.

Must have touched a nerve. The reaction was "Swift".