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Old May 19, 2008 | 9:47 am
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joanek
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Originally Posted by mshaikun

My wife thinks Starbucks is too strong, even its decaf.
If by that she means that finding herself awake at 330am after a 8am cup of starbucks decaf (as i do far too often), I recently saw the staff at my local starbucks grinding beans for a pot of decaf, right after grinding beans for a pot of regular...they don't clean those grinders, which means there easily could be some caffeinated coffee mixed in with the newly ground decaf.

When I asked about it, I was told it was SOP to grind one after the other...and that was confirmed by the manager of another local starbucks.
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