# Starbucks - No Decaf After Noon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 24, 2010, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159 "2010-10-24T02:49:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/101 "2010-10-28T04:02:14Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Basically a sommelier of coffee. Spot on. Although, since the setting is usually more of a bar than a restaurant, add to the remit some of the hospitality capabilities you associate with a good barman. Although it has gone off the rails a bit in terms of becoming rather more of a performance, the world barista championships give some idea of the requirements. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/102 "2010-10-28T14:16:47Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > My entire point is that people get wrapped up in where they live without something like the mass media to remind them there are other places. I think you have a personal bugaboo that leads you to read more into jokes than exists. Check the dipstick on your humor levels and fill as required. > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > I _heard_ - and this is just a rumor - that in Wisconsin you can get a whole wheel of cheese AT A STARBUCKS. Maybe out in BFE (oh shit, sorry **Derleth** , was that insulting to your people?). While I don’t actively patronize Starbucks, I’ve been into a few around the state, and I’ve \*never \*seen this. > [@gotpasswords](#): > > \*$ Is it really that hard to type “Starbucks”? > [@aceplace57](#): > > Its my understanding barista implies knowledge of coffee. No, that just makes a \*good \*barista. Bad baristas are still baristas. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/103 "2010-10-28T18:24:12Z")
At least at Caribou, when I was a Barista there, we had rather extensive training on types of coffees, the regions it came from, why it was roasted the way it was (light, med. dark and all the variations), and we had weekly tastings. We pulled our shots of espresso manually, testing them prior to shift on the machine, because the grind has to be adjusted to fit conditions, shots will vary depending on how warm/cool the room is and the humidity. We would have to pull a shot, check the crema, taste it, and adjust as necessary a couple times through each shift. As far as “waitress” I was paid $10/hr when I worked there 10 years ago, health insurance, and walked away with about $50 in tips at the end of a shift. I’d bet a lot of baristas are better off than many of their customers! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/104 "2010-10-28T19:27:46Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Maybe out in BFE (oh shit, sorry **Derleth** , was that insulting to your people?). Hey, if you lot can stand to self-apply such imprecations as ‘Easterner’ and ‘Californian’, I think we can tolerate being compared to sandy sodomites. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/105 "2010-10-28T20:06:23Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Hey, if you lot can stand to self-apply such imprecations as ‘Easterner’ and ‘Californian’, I think we can tolerate being compared to sandy sodomites. I live in Mil. Wau. Kee. Wis. Con. Sin. In. The. Mid. West. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/106 "2010-10-28T20:09:25Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I live in Mil. Wau. Kee. > > Wis. Con. Sin. > > In. The. Mid. West. Whatever. It’s clear that you’re no true Scot. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/107 "2010-10-28T20:26:03Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Whatever. It’s clear that you’re no true Scot. Quite. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/108 "2010-10-28T22:04:39Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I live in Mil. Wau. Kee. > > Wis. Con. Sin. > > In. The. Mid. West. I’m. From Doo. Koin. Ill. Ih. Noiii. (Iiing.) I’d still call you an Easterner, though, just on general principles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/109 "2010-10-29T02:37:25Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I live in Mil. Wau. Kee. > > Wis. Con. Sin. > > In. The. Mid. West. Then why are you speaking like you’re from the Deep South? ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/110 "2010-10-29T03:12:09Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > Then why are you speaking like you’re from the Deep South? Doo Qwin IS the deep south…in Ill Annoying! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159/111 "2010-10-29T16:03:43Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > I’d still call you an Easterner, though, just on general principles. Only if I get to call you flatlander back. 😃 > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > Then why are you speaking like you’re from the Deep South? Because \*\*Derleth \*\*apparently missed it both on the corner of every post I’ve ever made here \*and \*when I pointed it out just a few posts previous in this very thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-no-decaf-after-noon/558159.md?page=5)