Starbucks want to know your name. Good thing or Bad? Discuss.

Next week give your account nuraber and sort code for a free muffin!

Tbh I couldn't care if they called me dick aslong as I'm not standing around waiting for my coffee for 10 minutes.
 
There's a take-away place in Canary Wharf (in that big underground shopping centre) which asks for your name so they can call it when your sandwich is ready. The odd time when I'm in London, some colleagues and I go there and have a little competition to see who can give them the best name for them to shout out.

If I ever used Starbucks (I just can't bring myself to pay £3 for a coffee), I would do the same there.
 
I don't have a problem with it. By the way my name was Tiberius today, as in James Tiberius Kirk
Back to my local coffee vendor tomorrow, served by a rather attractive young lady who like to flirt a bit. Who asked me for my name and nuraber yesterday o_0.
 
American customer service does tend to be far superior to ours though. If you arn't comftable with it though no big deal you get to chose your own name for a bit.
 
From a comment poster on the BBC article about this:

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true Emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my skinny latte with an extra shot, in this life or the next!"

BBC News - Will you tell Starbucks your name?
 
Isn't it a lot easier just to order something unique? Or order a latte and just take the next one if no-one claims it after 5-seconRAB :0
 
But do they actually remeraber your name the next time you pop in?........if not then it is merely an "impersonal" personal touch, a Corporate blag in a world, where if we were to be honest, nobody really gives a damn about your name, unless of course it is Dollar!!.

I used to work in a shop twenty odd years ago and we knew all our customers by name................DAMN, I knew I should have patented that idea!!
 
I don't really see what the big deal is. It's not a good thing or a bad thing, IMO. It's just a... thing.

If that thing involved free coffee, so much the better
 
It's not really as a personal touch as such, it's so they can put your name on the cup so you know when your coffee is ready and which one it is.
Its actually a very sensible and practical thing to do.

I guess if you go to the same shop every day then they might remeraber you eventually but that's not really the point.
 
Although every coffee/tea shop I've gone to including chains when busy often write what you ordered on the side of the cup, so knowing which one hasn't been a problem, same in the states when I was over there last.
 
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