September 29th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
This may be a little over the top. This guy needs an honorary Starbucks Doctorate of Coffee Drinking …
A 34-year-old programmer named Winter (he legally changed his name from Rafael Antonio Lozano this year) has made it his life’s mission to drink a cup of coffee at every Starbucks on the planet. There are over 12,000 Starbucks - new ones open daily - and he has visited over 6,000 so far. He’s worn a Starbucks shirt every day since October 2001.
His side effects - nausea, headaches and feeling jittery. My goodness, it’ll take years for him to get that caffeine out of his blood system. He’ll probably have major withdrawals if he does stop. He did once hit 29 stores in succession, drinking a total of one hundred and four (104) ounces and three shots of espresso.
So if I do the math, that’s 6000 stores spending a total of $24,000 if he just had an average of one $4 drink a store. If he does succeed, he would have spent close to $50,000 on Starbucks coffee (counting the max. of 12,000 stores only and not the new stores opening up). You can buy a nice car for that much! I don’t even want to start figuring out how much his Starbucks wardrobe is. I bet he is just loving the fact that Starbucks are raising their prices.
And here I thought I was a little extreme on my Starbucks binge.
(Via Boing Boing)
9 Responses to “Starbucks Doctorate of Coffee Drinking”
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omninaif said: @ 9:30 pm
September 29th, 2006
If he ends up suing Starbucks for deprived sleep…
Syndrom said: @ 4:11 am
September 30th, 2006
Jesus…. -_-
Shelli said: @ 10:08 am
September 30th, 2006
That is just weird.
Everyone should really have Caribou coffee as an alternative. They are much better, IMHO.
Angela K said: @ 3:04 pm
September 30th, 2006
What if he’s able to make it a tax write-off, though. :) I’ve been looking for JUST such a mission. I need something like that!!
worm said: @ 4:37 pm
September 30th, 2006
cool!
Kristyn said: @ 8:20 pm
September 30th, 2006
Um, that has to be the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. That guy, Winter was it, has way, way too much time on his hands. I mean, do you know how much it must cost him to travel around to all of those Starbucks? What a nut.
On another note, no one should tell this to my husband. He’s a coffee-aholic, this sounds like something he’d try to do! :)
Kristyn
kristarella said: @ 11:13 pm
September 30th, 2006
It didn’t sound so bad until you mentioned that he does many in succession. Oh my gosh! Also, Starbucks is just way too expensive. Here it’s $3.95 (or was last time I was there a while ago) for a small cappuccino. I can get a much better coffee for $3.50 or less. Alhough from what I’ve heard Starbucks is one of the better coffee outlets in the US, which is a bit sad. Maybe I should dtart a coffee roasting business over there.
aurea said: @ 1:30 am
October 1st, 2006
This reminds me of my brother’s goal to eat at a McDonald’s in every country he visits.
Tense Teacher said: @ 9:46 am
October 1st, 2006
“nausea, headaches and feeling jittery”
No-o-o-o-o-o-o! What an idiot!