Every morning I go to Starbucks and order coffee. Over the years I have been so conditioned to the taste of their "special" brew that I can now chug it down in the morning without snarling. For someone who doesn't particularly love the taste of their coffee, I drink it like a fool. And I do so because it is so damn convenient.
Starbucks are everywhere, and I hate to say it but frequenting them can be quite the experience. You order a drink, it takes too long, and before your blood pressure can even start to rise, someone hands you a cardboard placard for a free drink-which is the equivalent of them saying: "We know you are a big baby, don't cry. Just take this coupon and bring it back here tomorrow morning."
Even the music they sell enrages me because for the most part I cannot find any fault with it. Who can argue with old Stax compilations, Sinatra and Sam Cooke?
I bring all this up because there is a new independently owned cafe in town called Bennett’s Fresh Roast. They roast their beans every morning and hand make their very own doughnuts, special touches that only an independently owned coffee joint can give.
Sigh. But I just don't care anymore. I have seen the future that has tamed the great white whale of commercialism and it is good.
4 comments:
I have been to Bennett’s Fresh Roast and that's some good stuff! Although, I still love Star Buck's, I can't help it.
Where is this Bennett's you speak of? I'm slightly...maybe a more than a little healthily addicted to all things coffee and espresso related. Always looking to try out a new place tho; ya know...just to see how long it takes to get me hooked.
yeah were is this cafe. i'd love to try it. and although i love sbux you can get a little sick of it after having it three times a day!
Uhm it is off 2011 Bayside Parkway, off of West First Street in downtown Fort Myers.
You might want to mapquest it. Its kind of tucked away.
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