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Law Practice

May 31, 2018

Starbucks should serve up good coffee, and that’s it

Here is my advice to the grand poo-bahs who run Starbucks: Treat everybody alike and prioritize comfort and convenience.

Gideon Kanner

Professor of Law Emeritus
Loyola Law School

USC Law School

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Starbucks should serve up good coffee, and that’s it
A pedestrian tries to open the door at a Starbucks in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday. (New York Times News Service)

As we were sipping our customary tall Americano at our neighborhood Starbucks the other day, our eyes were assaulted by, not one, but two full-page Starbucks ads, one in the New York Times and the other in the Wall Street Journal.

What got our favorite java slingers inspired to preach to the multitudes, was the incident in Philadelphia where two African-American gents walked into a local Starbucks, did not order any coffee, but sat...

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