omooc

Surprise: McDonald's Coffee is Giving Starbuck's Some Unwanted Competition

As a senior citizen (I am just one year shy of being an octogenarian), I can buy coffee at MCD for 50 cents (some stores offer it at 25 cents). The quality is comparable to that at SBUX. During the Money Show in DC last October, I had occasion to taste 4 different coffee one day: (1) in the morning, at SBUX, which has a shop on the hotel premises, (2) during break, at a booth in the exhibition hall where a coffee grower was promoting his chain, (3) at lunch, where an oil company was soliciting participants to its drilling venture, and (4) on the way home, at a MCD. Clearly, that at (2) was the best; (1), (3) and (4) were about the same -- but (4) must be rated as a Best Buy. omooc