Costa Coffee
Posted by McE on 01/7/09 • Categorized as Cafe, Eat
When you walk into either of them it’s kinda hard to put your finger on the major differences between Costa and Starbucks. Costa is from England, Starbucks from America, ok. Starbucks is of course the bigger player here in Hangzhou, although Costa does well in England. After that, well… Inside they are very familiar, almost one a copy of the other – I wonder if the interior design company is the same. Costa has deeper richer colours? Food is similar. Coffee in Costa is, in my opinion, better. Costa also offers free wifi – Starbucks requires you to have 
an account with an ISP. And Costa has a small partitioned off smoking room.
Haha…In my opinion, Starbucks and Costa have at least two differences: The toliet in Starbucks needs to be cleaner, which Costa does a good job! Oh, and latter is not that busy(Partly because Starbucks is bigger); Tables in Coata are not as crowded as those in Starbucks, you can move around without bothering people sitting next to you, and seats are more confortable. Pay attention to these two points next time^_^ Oh, oh, Costa gives people free dessert sometimes…