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  1. Coffee shops with good product and service will survive Starbucks. Can anyone count how many places there are to get coffee in the Annex between Bathurst and Brunswick? Starbucks chooses locations with coffee shops, because that’s where people are who will go to a cafe. It’s parasitical in a sense, but every successful business is opportunistic.

    Rumour has it in Cabbagetown that Starbucks is going in across from Jet Fuel. Very good product (if you don’t order something at all challenging), but no menu, little food and hipster ‘service’ doesn’t win you as many customers as it could. I don’t go, because I don’t even get a proper listen when I try to explain what a dry macchiato is (which I have to do, because the last three were, in fact, cappuccinos). Parliament does not have the foot traffic of the Annex, so Jet Fuel is going down, unless they try something like service. A shame… maybe not.

  2. Adam’s stance seems a little interventionist. That being said, there is a better location available………..

    In the Robertson building.