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Ritual Roasters Starbucks Zombies

posted by Scott Beale on Monday, October 31st, 2005

Ritual Starbucks

The fine folks at Ritual Roasters, a independent, geek-friendly coffee house in San Francisco’s Mission District, were dressed up as zombie Starbucks employees today. They asked me if I wanted a grande non-fat pumpkin latte with a shot of vanilla in typical undead fashion (of course Ritual would never serve such a drink).

You just gotta love Halloween in San Francisco.

- photo by Scott Beale

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Tristan 10/31/2005 06:18 PM 1 point
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I work for starbucks, will i fry in hell?

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Steve 10/31/2005 06:39 PM 1 point
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Remember kids, it's all fun and games until somebody gets sued into a smoking hole...

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Ryan Singel 10/31/2005 07:00 PM 1 point
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Ritual roasters makes the bombest gingerbread venti low-fat decaf latte south of Fisherman's Wharf.

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Discfree 10/31/2005 08:39 PM 1 point
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Ritual Roasters is about to get sued into the ground by Starbucks.

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http://www.discfree.com

Needcoffee.com 10/31/2005 08:46 PM 1 point
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strong>They Serve Coffee! The People They Serve Coffee to...Get Up and Serve Coffee!

Personally, I have no problem with Starbucks. While I love me some indie coffee, I'm an equal opportunity coffee purchaser. "Oh, you have coffee? I love you. What was this place's name again? Who am I?"

Still, it's funny as shit to see...

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Jackson West 10/31/2005 10:02 PM 1 point
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I almost spit soda all over my computer when I saw that picture. I sent this to all my favorite peeps in Seatown, as I mentioned on Flickr. As my dad joked, "This is what the Torrefazione employees must have looked liked." Surprised they didn't come up with it first!

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Twodeadpoets 11/01/2005 12:51 AM 1 point
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oesn't ANYONE GET THE JOKE HERE?!... and I'm from Seattle.

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Justin 11/01/2005 01:08 AM 1 point
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someone said it on flickr i think, but since I dont have an account...
he's cute (=

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Captain Bob 11/01/2005 08:33 AM 1 point
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Starbucks isn't going to sue anyone over a halloween costume. Sure, Starbucks will charge EMTS for the bottles of water needed at Ground Zero during 9/11 (http://www.snopes.com/rumors/starbuck.htm) and no matter the reason Starbucks DID close all of their stores in Israel (http://www.snopes.com/politics/israel/starbucks... despite these bits of ass-biting stupidity, they are NOT going to sue anyone over a Halloween costume.

As it is, after they charged the EMTs for water and took MONTHS to admit that they had (they simply CLAIMED that they had given the EMTs the water free of charge) I've stopped shopping there altogether. There are plenty of places that serve coffee.

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Jacob Appelbaum 11/01/2005 06:11 PM 1 point
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I look like a total fucking tool in that photo Scott. My costume was the best ever. I was a mission hipster.

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Sally 01/03/2006 06:33 PM 1 point
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Funny picture! Probably, such a serve's look could scare me, even, I could forget about Halloween.:)

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http://www.frugaldelights.net

scott 04/19/2006 03:38 AM 1 point
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this is the problem. starbucks does not uniquely influence the world in a negative manner more than any other coffee company. How? With free trade, they give consistant pricing that allows growers to plan ahead and not be limited by fluctuations in the price of coffee. They do use beans grown with technification, but they also openly attempt to buy shade-grown beans. Most other coffee companies don't do that, nor do they have the resources. Their marketing strategy works, I don't like it (and ritual roasters don't seem to either), but it works. Until there is another solution, pinpointing starbucks just doesn't cut it. Though, I'll admit, I take my shots every once and a while too. Just my two cents!

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Dave 10/14/2006 11:11 AM 1 point
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If you guys spent as much time running and growing your own buisnesses in a professional way instead of hopping on the "scapegoat bandwagon" that blames starbucks for all the worlds perils, then maybe you would be successful too. Ive never even heard of that coffee house or brand name; i wonder why?Read the starbuck report on social responsibility and see how many hundreds of millions of dollars a year this company gives back to its communities and coffee growing regions. You have no idea how many wonderful public service opportunities are offered through starbucks.Try being a part of the overall solution instead of just adding to the crap that intelligent people just filter out anyway.

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