Oh, hi M!
I actually had to look up a name for a coffee drink that wasn’t straight coffee. I don’t even know what a macchiato is. (Or at least didn’t until I looked up coffee drinks.) You have to remember, Ginger’s not a coffee drinker and her business motto is first what does she want and second what’s a good idea. She only has a couple of coffee pots going because of Ryan and then her little trade with M’s Whooping Coffee. Half the stuff on the à la carte shelve thing that’s off panel is from Ginger’s shop. Ginger will rotate (read: randomly grab) a flavor of coffee that M’s given her and promote it that day. Whee! Insight into the working of fictional businesses is fun! And this is really only surface scratching! So we’ll move on before people are bored.
Man, I really like all the comments on the last comic. Even while half were made by two people (one of them me), I just enjoy seeing conversation. Thanks for commenting folks!
Still desperately trying to find time to do the monthly donation image. But comics come first. That said, both might finally go up Friday while I’m on the road. I’ll make it happen. I’m that special. Or crazy. One of the two.
I do have a simple image (compared to the work for a comic or a donation image/wallpaper) I want to draw for a new Facebook profile which I may pump out before the trip. Maybe I’ll do that tonight and post it before I go as a bit of bonus art to help the wait. Ha ha ha, I thought I’d have time for anything. It’s half finished so I’ll do it with the art dump that will be Friday’s comic and this month’s donation image. Look for them Friday evening.
(It might help if I didn’t spend great amounts of time writing up news posts…)
Yeah, the sad thing is that people actually do this…
i would say that you are a awesome combination of those two.
personally I think coffee tastes horrible, but that’s just me.
No, it’s not just you. I never acquired a taste for it either.
I’ve said I’ve got no idea about coffee and it really stems from my not drinking it. I’m not big on the taste either.
well, at least now I know I’m not just insane.
To each their own… I happen to be addicted to the stuff, since I’m a chronic insomniac anyways and need to stay awake for Midterms.
The darker the better!
Mike got a macchiato tonight–I asked what it is, apparently it’s basically espresso with a dash of milk–assuming I understood the description in Chinese properly. Anyway, his was Caramel which was also adorable.
Unfortunately I dressed like that guy today.
Surprisingly, this happened a lot at CVS too…
Two favorite things at my work; one: we sell coffee, like good coffee either whole bean or ground up in bag for you to take home and make but sometimes people get pissed that we don’t serve it. Second, people assume that since our store has an Italian name that we are a deli and serve pizzas and sandwiches despite the fact that on our signs no where does it say that we sell food at all…. Once again some people get pissed at us for this too, which leads me to my point, people are stupid and selfish and a lot of times if you have exactly what they don’t want it’s all your fault.
I’ve always kind of believed “the customer is always right” maxim has given customers way more power than they deserve. Now, no matter what, it gives them unfair advantages, generally they’re WRONG, it makes employees unhappy and give worse service!
You realize I’m going to be extremely tempted to do this now once I get back to Grand Rapids.
doooooooo eeeeeeeet.
also, what do you think would have happened if you combined Ginger with Faye from Questionable content?
The Apocalypse, or Gehenna, possibly the Rapture.
That’s fine. After all, it’s Grand Rapids, Michigan. They probably deserve it.
false advertising, lol :p
This is true though, people have come to expect an array of items (Wal-Mart, etc.) in order for convenience, making it harder for a place that sells just something to make it into customers’ heads without an edge.
Speaking of edge, the other advertiser got the best of me. Darn bids! And tons O’ emails!
To be fair, if you were trying to advertise on the site, I haven’t exactly been able to respond to to bids in real time. I try best I can though!
And I was originally going to write up some “insightful” commentary that was an expansion on the whole convenience culture, social commentary and all that, but I think I ended up passing out instead.
Ugh, just the word macchiato sends shivers down my spine.
The sandwich shop I used to work at sold coffee and we had a cappuccino/latte machine, but we rarely used it. Then this guy started coming in every weekend asking for a macchiato. One girl knew had to make it, but the rest of us were clueless. And when she wasn’t working and the guy came in, my boss said we still had to make it. It was impossible and he’d bring it back four or five times until we finally got it close.
Never mind that there was a Starbucks down the street.
The only upside was that we charged him a ridiculous price because it wasn’t on the menu.
The revenge of the food service industry worker!
We use to have a cappuccino machine at the library I frequent and occasionally work at. Not too many people there knew how to use it. A former library director there did though as did another employee. The other employee had been called on occasion to bring the director drinks at home. She… she wasn’t a good director. The current director? AWESOME.
Whenever my boss used to tell me to go get his faveourite Starbucks latte/machiatto/frappe-whatzit/Monstrosity, I used to bring him plain dark roast coffee and say ‘whoops’. haha
If you ever need stories from coffeeshop baristas, hit me up. I work at one, and there are a lot of customers like the two in the strip today.
In other news, yay! I actually knew what type of drink you were referring to.
I *LOVE* the look on the guy in panel one. Absolutely captures the vague *derp* you get from those kinds of people. And having spent my fair share of time in the local Starbucks-across-from-Starbucks (busiest Starbucks in the world, in fact), I have seen that look MANY MANY times.
I just had to revist this one. At work today I had to tell 7 people in a row “No, you can’t get pizza here, however you CAN get pizza from the pizza place 2 METRES TO YOUR LEFT”.