Poll: Your favourite chain café?

[Curunen]

Pret do the best salads.

But costa do nice coffee/hot chocolate.

 

[skippy2421]

got a taste for costa now entirely due to the fact they have a stall in our building. Never been a fan of starbucks so costa it is.

 

[Theophany]

Pret's espresso has the highest caffeine content and there is one next door to where I work. If you're asking most convenient, I'd say Pret.

I prefer Nero though. Coffee tastes better, though not as strong as I'd like it.

 

[Kosmiche]

I'd rather eat a candwich than vending machine mashed potato, goddamn.

 

[Ahleckz]

Nero, best coffee and best loyalty programme plus it's not normally as busy as Costa and Starbucks.

 

[Spuj]

We have a Costa at work that is subsidised and that has carried over to if I'm out. However if there isn't a Costa and I fancy a coffee I will just go somewhere else!

 

[lucy_bee]

Any will do, whichever is the nearest.

 

[sigma]

All pretentious over-priced garbage IMO.

+1

 

[Tican]

I used to drink Costa exclusively for 9 months, as I had a discount card through my old employer (Whitbread).

Now I am back to Starbucks

 

[aquabat]

starbucks if i can find one but we have a costa by me..

 

[trickycurve]

I'm impartial to any café really, but because there's two Costa's in the fairly small town I live in and one in my girlfriend's, which all have nicer seating arrangements and atmosphere compared to any of the alternatives, I tend to get my hot drinks from either of those. I don't even drink coffee; I'm more of a hot chocolate person.

 

[Ghosteh]

Anywhere that serves Illy coffee is my preference. But out of the list, I'd say Nero, as I always used to go there while I was in college.

 

[ins0mn1ac]

Starbucks, or it would be if one of the staff didn't catch me out this morning

"what's your name please?"

"Percy"

"...hang on aren't you.."

doh!

 

[aceface57]

Costa but just because I get it free at work.

 

[One]

I used to like Starbucks until they wanted to know my name. I no longer shop there now.

 

[Kosmiche]

desires can you stop using your sig so I can use it? Thats brilliant.

 

[Kazz]

trucker coffee from petrol station, along with some mashed potatoes.

 

[One]

desires can you stop using your sig so I can use it? Thats brilliant.

You can have it if you want. I'll get a picture one.

 

[Draeger]

Costa Coffee. Their Banana and Pecan loaf is sublime.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

We don't really get the chains here the same way you do in the UK. It's mainly because the independent places provide much better coffee and pastries etc. There's a Starbucks near my work (probably the busiest street in New Zealand) and it is invariably empty whilst all the other coffee places are crammed.