Y'know it's hard to find sympathy for airports - it seems it's in their DNA just to rip off customers and this Starbucks does just that with prices at least 15% over the high street stores.
I'd take some convincing that the rent in this decrepit airport, that's as much of a run down dump today as it was when we last travelled through 16 months ago is higher than high street costs. It's a £1 for 10 minutes just to drop off anyone travelling.
The tables here are dirty. Many tables are littered with the thrash and waste food left by previous customers. There's zero cleaning between customers yet signs about social distancing are all around. Why bother in these circumstances?
The floors too are filthy. I see 4 staff behind the counter. There's been very little customer demand in the last half hour possibly the price hikes and the dirt put folks off yet not one of the four idle folks behind the counter can be arsed to clean up.
I tried to load money onto my Starbucks card but it's impossible as it's a franchise. It's two stars for the coffee and ok service but zero for green stars - they seem to pay the same care to recycling and environment planet friendly materials as they do to cleaning to keep customers safe in a pandemic, in other words little to nothing. The Norn Iron phrase is it's a dirty hole and as I hit the button to post this a quick clean up is underway but not a cloth or disinfectant spray in sight. read more