The Elbert Files: My fill of coffee Plans for a drive-thru Starbucks on Ingersoll Avenue remind me of my favorite Starbucks story.
I’ve never liked their coffee. Too bitter and overpriced for me. But I do admire their business model, which includes fair wages and health insurance for workers.
I’ve been a coffee junkie since the mid-1970s when I quit smoking for the third time. The irony was that after each of my first two quits, I wound up smoking more. I was up to three packs a day and working as a reporter at the Quad-City Times in Davenport when I quit for good.