Palm Bay Starbucks Loses Major Coffee Sale To Calvary Chapel
This morning the Palm Bay Starbucks, located right near the intersection of Hollywood Blvd and Palm Bay Road, lost the sale of a $3 Caffe Mocha Latte to Calvary Chapel of Melbourne.
Why you ask?
…for the simple reason Calvary Chapel of Melbourne has WiFi access and Starbucks Palm Bay doesn’t. A call placed to Starbucks this morning inquiring as to when access would be installed was met with, “Uh, I don’t really know” prompting local coffee patron Alan LeStourgeon to seek the warm frothy beverage of his liking elsewhere.
Alan ended up at Calvary Chapel on his way to the library when he saw a sign. It read, “Free WiFi Access Cafe Open Now!” so he stopped in, grabbed a nice Cafe Mocha and saved 25 cents to boot. When asked what he intended to do with his 25 cent savings Alan responded, “I think it costs 25 cents to park at the Indialantic boardwalk for 20 minutes, someday I hope to be able to save enough to spend an hour at the beach.”
Alan was not at all bothered by the obvious religious overtones of being in a Christian environment commenting, “Hey don’t get all worked up about Jesus, He’s a pretty nice guy once you get to know Him.”
Tags: starbucks, coffee, calvary chapel, caffe mocha, latte, jesus
January 11th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
[…] If you live in Brevard, as many of my readers do, and are looking for great places to find free internet wireless access, a good place to start is this page in Brevard Directory. Some Palm Bay residents have pointed out that even the new Starbucks in Palm Bay is not offering wireless access yet. That sure is a mystery to me. Even the Wendy’s at Palm Bay Road and Babcock has free wireless access, although the service there is a little weak since the access point is buried in the manager’s office. […]