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| - Based on my check-ins and reviews, I'm well versed in the SPoT Coffee world. My goal has been to check out every location, and I finally made it to this one during Toronto's World Pride (Gay Pride) event. I had thought to myself, "Wasn't there two SPoT Coffee's in Toronto?" but I figured I may have had been mistaken.
My friend and I walked a couple miles to this location from our hotel, unfortunately during a huge baseball game taking place so there were a lot of people walking around getting to the stadium. I thought this SPoT was quite small compared to other locations, the seating was a little strange, but was in a prime spot of the city. They were very festive with the rainbow gay pride colors which I loved.
The staff seamed friendly to every customer...until my friend and I. I don't know if they could sense we were American or something, but the friendly vibes I originally got with them died instantly. Even tipping them didn't seem to phase their terrible attitudes towards us. I ordered a sandwich, which came out on a fancy square plate. They do all the cooking behind a small wall out in the open, didn't look like they had an actual kitchen. Their WiFi I specifically remember being abysmal, but that also seemed to be a general common thing for Canada.
The reason I am writing this review right now is because one of the pharmacists I work with gave me a gift card to SPoT Coffee and I noticed on the back that I was indeed right, there USED to be two SPoT Coffee's in Toronto. It seems they both had similar fates, rent issues, poor management, staff rudeness, seating issues, etc.
It's kind of sad to see that SPoT Coffee has had so much trouble in Toronto, and yet in Buffalo they can't stop building new ones. It disappoints me to see how much corporate seems to always ruin what used to be great. They know just the right way to rip the heart and soul out of a good business and replace it with standardized rip offs and lame clones.
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