The best place to find Starbucks gossip is, of course, on the Starbucks Gossip site. (I felt guilty for declining to buy VIA instant coffee after reading employee comments on the pressure they felt to sell it.) One of the site’s regular features, though, the “Juan Valdez” reviews of random Starbucks sites, is coming to a close. In his latest post, reviewing an Anacortes branch, “Juan” writes that his 50th review will be his last. That leaves him seven more to go, and he’s taking votes on which stores to visit within a 50 mile range of Seattle. Early recommendations include the store at 7th and Stewart, the Columbia Tower branches, and the University Village remodel. If you don’t have a store to recommend (either pro or con), or if you’re not interested in discussions on understaffing, attitudes, and store cleanliness, well, you can always join the debate about what a chair was doing in the Anacortes bathroom.

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