Coffee Shop Behaviors and Trends

What's Your Coffee Shop Waiting Line Stance?

October 25, 2010

Call it coffee shop wisdom: Behavioral analysts and Bloomberg Businessweek took a weekday morning to study how hundreds of people behave while waiting in (a now-longer) line for their coffee order at Starbucks. What the experts came up with was the concept that coffee-drinkers have one of 10 different coffee waiting-line stances. I conducted a brief but honest self-evaluation, and I'm equal parts Awkward Blackberryer and Counter Seducer. Which one are you?

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10 Comments

lizlee89 2 years 29 weeks

I'm definitely a Food Case Starer, but I'm also a different kind of Counter Seducer. I don't talk a lot to the employees (because I feel like it would annoy them) but I do lean on the counter. It's actually really wierd and probably hilarious tp people behind me because I lean at like a 45 degree angle...

socalbeachgal 2 years 29 weeks

I'm a combo blackberrier, a food case starer and counter seducer. I know all about the baristas at my local Starbucks.

fuzzles 2 years 29 weeks

I don't normally get coffee from a shop. I make it at home. But while I am waiting for it to brew, I often lay on the kitchen floor and make sizzling sounds while I imagine that I am a slice of bacon.

zeze 2 years 29 weeks

Depending on the people around me, I can be the counter seducer, the the person is talkative or an older person, for some reason I'm more likely to talk to them. Usually I'm the blankly stare at food-case girl though...

Susannah Chen 2 years 29 weeks

I'm shocked nobody else is a Counter Seducer! I love the people who work at my Starbucks, so I'm always asking them how their weekend/vacation was. The people waiting in line behind me probably hate me.