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Next Coffee sucks. The food sucks, the coffee sucks, the staff sucks (not as people, I'm sure they're all fine upstanding citizens, but generally not people I would want working at my hypothetical coffee shop). The food consistently tastes old and stale. The coffee continues to look more like an oil spill than anything any human should be ingesting. If the carafes ever were cleaned, I might be able to taste something other than that film on my coffee. The staff still seems as inattentive as they've ever been. Much happier chatting to each other rather than actually serving the customers. The wifi works....for PCs. For whatever reason, Macs seem to have problems connecting to their network.
Also, they removed the student discount for orders under $10.
Here's what really annoys me though: they have ZERO impetus to improve or provide a decent product in any way, shape, or form. Students will go there. Students will buy their terrible food and drink their disgusting coffee. They can take away the discount, and students will still go there because it's the easiest option. They will continue to make money off of the customers that will flock there from the medical school next door. Coffee and a place to study is all any medical student really needs. Next, to be fair, provides these. In the same way that an old banana peel and tissue paper could provide food and shelter. They have their market cornered and can happily drop the quality of product since, no matter what, stressed and under caffeinated students will show up.
If the place showed any positive signs whatsoever, I might be willing to give them another chance. But for now, I'm gonna go to any of the number of coffee shops in the region that provide a decent product. The easy option is definitely not the right one in this case.
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