What Are Coffee Pirates?

[Spencer]

We seek to break with tradition
We want to be our own coffee specialists
We questions the status quo
We want to promote and celebrate quality
We desire change for the sake of improvement

We be coffee pirates
We encompass first, second, third and all other waves!
We know no political or geographical boundries
Pirates all live by the code "Quality First!"

Yo Ho!

[Wilson Hines]

And a hardy, harrr harrr Eth Harrar to that, Mate!

[Spencer]

What makes you are coffee pitate?
and what would set you off to go on the attack (what makes you really angry?)???

[Wilson Hines]

If you mean, what makes me angry at a coffee shop when I order my drink and I am watching what they are doing? Well, how about giving me the first shot of the day out of the machine and I do mean the FIRST shot (well, it sucked) with no grinder adjustment or anything. What about asking me "Are you sure you don't want a 20 oz capp, it is only .75 cents more than the 12 oz." What about when I nicely ask the barista, in general conversation, "what is the roast date on your beans" and they have to ask the manager who still doesn't know. Ya know whutta mean?

[christos manousidis]

One of the things that makes me angry and frenetic is the missed information from the responsible organisms that want promote the Gourmet coffees without they give the information that needs in the persons that interest. I know, is all about business and the economic interests make many be hidden when you speak to them straight. I know that anything someone do is for certain profit but for god sake… answer for money! In the end you sale your trades.

[Jason Dominy]

When I go into a shop that has an Iced Cappuccino. makes we want to be a pirate. When I go into a shop, and ask the guy behind the bar about the coffee of the day, and he has to read the info off a guide sheet, I want to be a pirate. When I go into a shop, and end up either watching the "barista" (and I use that loosely for them), pull a 15 second shot of watery crap, and try to put it in a scorched milk latte, I want to be a pirate. When I overhear someone in line at a store say to someone else, "Let's go to $tarbucks next, they have the BEST coffee!" I want to be a pirate. For the love of good coffee, I want to be a coffee pirate. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhh....

[Spencer]

I was once in line at a coffeehouse in the Newark airport for an early flight at 5:30 am. The store had just opened and I ordered and Americano. They employee (because I cannot by definition call the person a barista) dispensed the coffee from the dosping chamber without grinding. The employee then extracted the coffee three times to fill the 20 oz. cup. I was too tired and too amazaed the actually say anything at the counter. I gingerly placed the coffee in the trash can and have never gone back ever since!

If you cannot prepare the items on your menu to contemporary standards for quality than you I have no time to be your customer!!

[Wilson Hines]

ROFLOL, nice belly laugh on that one, matey!

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give me a sweet push button shot from a franke or thermoplan over a barman on a synesso or marzocco anyday!

that would kick ass!

just about as much as disney making pirate movies.
boo.

[August]

I would love to hunt down the inventor of the super auto machine and run him through steam to stern. Also the countless number of drinks that go into the trash can after the first sip; and i am not nice enough to wait to go out side and find a trash can, you will know. These are a few reasons i want to be a float on the high seas of coffee!!

[Spencer]

I read this online recently and thought it is appropriate to share:

"Steve Jobs once said, "It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy."

I must concur-rrrrrrrr with Cap'n Jobs.

Pirates know how to have a good time. Pirates know they are in it for themselves but that they can only get what they want by banding together. Pirates have their own language and get to wear pretty cool hats, all while disregarding the conformist tendencies of proper society as they share an ideology which helps 'em understand how they fit in to the big picture.

Fun.

Sometimes, I confess, I forget to have fun."

[Lisa]

As Jimmy Buffett says, "Yes I am a Pirate, 200 years too late!" Gotta love Jimmy's Pirate attitude!

[Kim Lovelady]

Customers on their cell phones who think it is entirely ok to place their order by pointing at things.......AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
How RUDE!

It shivers me timbers!