Originally Posted by
nicolas75
Always strange for me to spend some time in Paris and go ...to a Starbuck Coffee, in a city where you have plenty of local cafés and pâtisseries!!
My experience of Starbucks in Paris is that 90%* of the orders are not coffee based. They must be making a fortune charging €5 a pop for various syrup/ice/cream concoctions.
(They can also be rather good for the lactose-intolerant milky-coffee-drinkers.)
*an entirely made-up statistic, based on casual observation on some warm days...