Starbucks is always great, it is very close to St. Mitchell fountain and Notre Dame., they stay open until 9 pm Monday/Friday and Saturday to 10 pm., they free Wifi which pretty standard; however, besides the normal perks that you will get from the usual Starbucks, employees are terribly rude!
I know is not an easy task to find smiley faces in Paris but I have never seeing such a terrible customer service, specially the people on the night shift (I arrived at This location 20 minutes before closing) just to have a to go latte and the greeting was a very rude French women, who said " beware we are closing in 20 minutes so it can only be to go, all sitting areas are closed (I don't know what that means, because they were not), and no elaborate or cold drinks.
On a different ovation during the day I ask for my latte, they wrote my name in the cup and when they call my name someone else grab the drink very quickly, before I had a chance to say anything and pour some sugar on it, I told the barista if you can call them that here, that someone else took my drink and if he could make it again for me because of the mixup, the employee acted very bother and offended that I didn't take the drink from the other person, so he went and took it from the other customer and try to give it to me, which I off course refused after and I had already said I wanted a new one to be made since this person had already open the lid.
While in Europe it is still a Starbucks and for the very over priced coffee that we as customers are wiling to pay the customer service as well as products should of high standards and according to the Starbucks culture. read more