Starbucks coffee surprisingly really fluctuates between the stores. They use difference machines depending on the stores, even in Australia. The Espressos are automatically pulled, they're watery, sugary and are pretty disgusting to be honest. Gloria Jeans is definitely better than Starbucks, at least it doesn't taste like Sugar water. Hudson's coffee are made the best way but for some reason they are always burnt. I'd rather visit Gosh coffee and drink their Robert Timms coffee if I had no other options. As for McCafe - they changed their default coffee blend recently. Their older blend was so crap it was undrinkable. Tried their latest, rainforest allianced blend recently. Verdict? Still unbelievably crap. Unbelievable. Obviously their coffee makers are usually not up to standard as well but the coffees were just a disaster to begin with. At least the new Mothers drink tastes better than the old one. What were McCafe thinking, skimping on their coffee quality if they wanted to attract back the Gloria Jeans/Starbucks crowd? I got 1 admission to make that might be embarrassing. Not sure if you guys have tried Krispy Kreme's coffee. Its actually very American style, gritty, sweet, bold, caramel, etc. However out of all the fast food / coffee chains, I think this is the only one which is remotely drinkable. I could actually finish the regular cup size when I'm desperate for a coffee with a doughnut 😉 They use LM's to make the coffees as well, not some automatic machines like Starbucks and McCafes.
