Starbucks has resolved coffee spillage in the cup holder
By sedel1027
@sedel1027 (17846)
Cupertino, California
April 13, 2008 3:10pm CST
I went to the starbucks drive through today to get a Green Tea Latte and noticed the girl did something weird with my lid before she handed it to me. When I took it from her, she had placed a coffee stirrer like thing in the drinking hole to keep the coffee from splashing out while it was in the cup hold.
It is cool. Star bucks green. and the top part is their mermaid holding a cup of coffee.
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6 responses
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
14 Apr 08
neat little device, but does it make it more of a nuisance if you want to sip your coffee while driving? do you have to figure out where to put the stick in order to take your sip - and then have that stirrer dripping coffee onto your belongings? does starbucks open the drinking hole for you ?
could the same effect be had by not openning that hole at all? or is this placed in the opposing hole that permits air flow to go through and prevent a vacuum?
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
14 Apr 08
The drinking hole is cut out of the cup like a traditional coffee cup lid.
I don't normally drink my coffee from them while driving because they are right around the corner from my house. I have spilled enough coffee on me to heave learned not to do it LOL
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@zazamarket (34)
• Georgia
14 Apr 08
Once i was in one of the airport in europe and i tried sturbucks. it was a long time ago. two month ago ther was the same situation and i can not say that the quality was not as the first time.
i think the sturbucks is losing its consumers becaues of its quality at first and because of the competitors.
@freak369 (5113)
• United States
13 Apr 08
We don't have any drive-thru Starbucks around here, you are pretty lucky! That does sound like a really cool idea though, I wonder if they are doing that for walk in service too. We usually only get the Frappuccinos and those come with a huge straw and are pretty thick lol.
@jellyjam74 (205)
• Canada
14 Apr 08
that's cool. but i guess you have to take it out to drink. so i guess it won't really help if you want to still drink the coffee while you are in the car.. i don't go to starbucks very often. there's only 1 here where i live. usually we go to tim hortons. there are tonnes of them here...and they use those lids where you have to pull back the tab and stick it on the tab on the lid. well i've learned a trick about that kind...when you pull the tab back, instead of sticking it on the thing on the lid, poke it into the coffee cup. this way, when you hit a bump or anything, the coffee will go up the lid and back into the cup...i've been doing it for years and have had no spillage-
@Pirate_Arg (472)
• South Africa
13 Apr 08
It is so simple yet it sounds effective. The sort of thing that makes one think "Why didn't I think of that?"
I know all about spilling coffee on myself... I do it almost daily. And I know I would spill even more if I tried to drink it while driving. That only works for me if I have a passenger to hold the cup and pass it to me at robots and stuff.
