McDonald's Coffee is At Least Twice as Good as Starbucks

That's right. You read the title correctly: McDonald's Coffee is At Least Twice as Good as Starbucks.


I do not eat McDonald's food and haven't eaten it in years. I even hate the smell of the place. But when it comes to a cup of coffee, McDonald's blows Starbucks away. McDonald's Coffee is more than twice as good as Starbucks. 


Read it again: McDonald's coffee is twice as good as Starbucks.


Need proof? McDonald's coffee tastes great and is well-known for the quality of the beans it uses (actually the only good quality item on the menu - besides the plastic pickles!) 


One cup of Starbucks coffee is ¥300 (about $3.82 USD) 

Starbucks

One cup of McDonald's ice coffee (my favorite) is ¥140 ($1.78 USD). That means I can buy two cups of McDonald's coffee for less than the price of one cup of Starbucks coffee! Two cups of McDonald's coffee is ¥280 (about $3.57 USD).

Two coffees at McDonald's for less than the 

price of one at Starbucks. Oh, and at my neighborhood

McDonald's, there's outdoor tables and a sidewalk cafe.

Some will say that Starbucks is a great place to sit down and relax. I don't think so. In Japan, the background music at Starbucks is blaring so loud that you can't have any good conversation. Others will say that Starbucks sells atmosphere. Well that wonderful for people who have the time to sit down for two hours having a cup of coffee. I don't. I am busy and I am in a hurry.


If I want to sit and talk business, I'll go to a proper hotel coffee shop where I can hear my partner and discuss business - and get free refills. I cannot do that at Starbucks.


Like I said, I am a businessman and I am in a hurry. When I want coffee, I will go to McDonald's. I am not interested in my fashion or how things "look." This is a simple business transaction. I want to best deal for my money.  I'd like to think that most good business people are interested in the best deal for the money. We'd want the best deal for our businesses, why not for a cup of coffee?


So next time you want a cup of java, don't be ashamed to say, "Let's get a cup of coffee over at McDonald's..." McDonald's is the best coffee deal in town for the business person in a hurry. And, in these days, what successful business person is NOT in a hurry?


Oh, and did I mention that Starbucks sucks?


CR chooses McDonald's as "Best Coffee" over Starbucks!

The Best Coffee Shop in Tokyo - Free Refills!

There's a coffee shop in Tokyo that I've found that must be the best kept secret in town. This place blows Starbucks away by a mile.

The restaurant is inside of the Grand Arc Hotel (next door to Tokyo FM) about a 2 minute walk from Hanzomon station on the Hanzomon line (take Exit 1). The name of the restaurant is Restaurant Patio. It is right across from the Imperial Palace!

Inside of Restaurant Patio

Restaurant Patio features smoking and no-smoking sections as well as very wide seating. Inside the restaurant seats well over 100 people and there is a fantastic outdoor patio area that is completely surrounded by trees. It is hard to believe that this place is right in the middle of Tokyo and it is not packed everyday.


The patio area is total serenity...

Patio Restaurant outdoors... Seats about 50 people

Of course, the Grand Arc Hotel seems a bit like a business hotel and Restaurant Patio doesn't seem like the lush sort of coffee shop you'd find in a five-star hotel… But it is much nicer than most Starbucks... Besides that, what makes me think Restaurant Patio is the best coffee shop in Tokyo, you ask?

It is quiet. It is perfect for a business meeting. It doesn't have music blaring like Starbucks does; you can easily have a nice quiet conversation. And, the kicker is that, coffee only costs ¥420 a cup!

¥420 a cup and free refills until the cows come home!

"Wait a minute, Mike!" (I can hear you say) "A cup of coffee at Starbucks costs about the same. What's the big deal?"

Well, I'm glad you asked… Because a cup of coffee at Patio is ¥420 and you get all the refills you want. Seriously! I've sat there and had 5 or 6 cups before! 

There's no place else that does that excepting noisy family restaurants like Jonathan's.

In fact, I'm sitting here drinking coffee right now. 

I LOVE this place!

So next time you have a business meeting and want to have it in a nice quiet respectable environment, try Restaurant Patio at the Grand Arc Hotel.

Restaurant Patio 

Business hours: 7:00 am ~ 10:00 pm

Tel: 03-3288-1636

Address: 1-1, Hayabusa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0092


Access: 
2 minutes by foot from No.1 Exit at Hanzomon station of the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon line - take Exit #1. Or 7 minutes from No.1 Exit at Kojimachi station of the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho line.

Hotel URL: http://www.grandarc.com

Patio Restaurant webpage: http://www.grandarc.com/restaurant/?c=rest&restaurant_pk=1

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