# Ohio mayer wants a Starbucks because **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991 "2020-09-07T03:00:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/21 "2020-09-08T16:07:20Z")
I stand corrected. I’m a bit embarrassed. The article indicated that the town was in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy…in 2015. As of 2019, its finances are apparently in good order, but I somehow missed that paragraph at the end. So, it’s apparently not a town in a death spiral getting excited about any new business coming in. It’s a town undergoing an economic recovery getting excited about the possibility of another new business coming in. Please continue with mocking the mayor for wanting a Starbucks to make the town a “destination” while simultaneously mocking towns as undesirable destinations because they lack the right eateries. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/22 "2020-09-08T16:19:00Z")
I know exactly where she wanted the Starbucks. A few years ago I was tracking down the history of the early McDonald’s in Ohio, one of which was in Maple Heights. I know about when it opened (1960ish) but not the store number. So I visited it to ask an employee. It was the most god forsaken Micky Dees I have ever seen. Everything was run down. The restroom was an odd narrow design. If you were at the urinal people had to walk right behind you to get past. Except the floors were covered with urine so I passed. A few months later they tore it down and built a new one across the street. Across the other street was an abandoned Burger King. That’s where she wanted the Starbucks. So this area could not keep the two biggest fast food chains afloat and in good shape. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/23 "2020-09-08T18:45:05Z")
comedian said he went to starbucks and in the bathroom was another starbucks ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/24 "2020-09-08T18:57:51Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#): > > We almost moved (from LI) to a small town in NJ that was abuzz over the imminent opening of a Dunkin Donuts. Here in Rhode Island there are 39 incorporated municipalities, 105 private and public high schools, and 124 Dunkin Donuts stores. You don’t need a Dunkin Donuts to be a destination here, you need one just to exist. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/25 "2020-09-08T19:04:20Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > comedian said he went to starbucks and in the bathroom was another starbucks Hell, in northern Tucson, there’s a Starbucks on one street corner and there’s another one inside the Safeway directly across the street. ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/26 "2020-09-08T19:12:56Z")
There are TWO Tim Horton’s _inside_ the Rogers Communications facility in Brampton, which is enormous but still ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/27 "2020-09-09T10:42:13Z")
My city has like 10 of every single fast food place as well as gas stations with sit-down eateries and chain restaurants galore, but for whatever reason we just can’t sustain either an Arbys or Burger King. Within the past decade two of each opened up in different locations and all four died within a year and never had their locations reused by anyone else again. I have no idea how we can have 3 McDonald’s and 4 Jack in the Box within 5 minutes of my house that are always packed but a Burger King is a bridge too far. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991/28 "2020-09-10T19:53:14Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > a Starbucks on one street corner and there’s another one… directly across the street. That’s how one couple in _Best In Show_ met… But I really stopped by to mention “Caffeine Corner” in Seattle. Different coffee shop on all four corners (hmm, I think the Tully’s got replaced by a Tea Bar… but still has caffeine!). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-mayer-wants-a-starbucks-because/919991.md?page=1)