Wrong wrong wrong.
No matter where you go, you will be assured that at Starbucks, your coffee will be the same as how you get it at home. At the mom and pop places, the flavor changes with the cafe. One place might be the bomb but the next location could serve you up a total dogshit latte. Starbucks is consistent. I never have to worry about a crappy cup of coffee.
And those mom and pop places.....usually loaded up with would-be intellectuals, assholes perched over their laptops and dickweeds commenting on politics loud enough so that everyone else can hear. Some places you can't even walk into comfortably if you're not "hip" enough. At Starbucks i can stand in line comfortably with joe-sixpack and sally housewife without feeling like i am being sized up by some beret wearing asshole holding a copy of "Catcher In The Rye"
We all bitch about "conformity" "the man" "captialism" but let's face it, consistency in certain avenues in life is a damn good thing and this especially holds true for coffee