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> The menu is definitely a significant part of it The overlap in skills between photographing your product and being a great barrista aren't obviously overlapp
by JumpCrisscross 1mo ago
> The menu is definitely a significant part of it
The overlap in skills between photographing your product and being a great barrista aren't obviously overlapping.
The takeaway seems to be to remove images from the menu.
- asdff 1mo agoYou think this is a signal of some great barista?
- mixedCase 1mo agoStarbucks has an amazingly polished corporate image and at least where I'm from the locales have great wall art done by local artists presented alongside tasteful decor and a minimalistic but well cared for choice of furniture that I can't honestly give it no less than a 9/10 presentation. The coffee still tastes like a Victorian chimney sweeper's piss.
- YeGoblynQueenne 1mo agoH... how do you know?
- bothers 1mo ago[dead]
- jackb4040 1mo agoAs a customer yes, I would have vastly higher confidence in the quality of a coffee shop with no pictures vs one that uses AI slop.
- mixedCase 1mo agoWhy?
- mingus88 1mo agoI’m not GP but this hits for me so I’ll reply in good faith I don’t actually care about the menu or sign. It’s a coffee drink and I’ve had thousands if not hundreds of thousands of them. I know what I like and if it’s just stencil letters pinned on a cork board I don’t care. I just want to grab a coffee and go. A shop with no pictures, just words? Sends a message that their coffee is probably good enough to speak for itself. Fine. A shop with hand drawn lettering, ornate art? The coffee is probably made by people who care about their craft in some fashion. At least the person making my coffee probably enjoys their job a little. Fine. Fully AI menu with gen Ai modeled drink pictures? The drink isn’t going to look like that. There is obviously no effort made here. They spent time to create a generic menu my kids could have put together. Worst of the lot, to be honest.