I personally like Coffee bean & Tea Leaf. Before I like Starbucks, and that is just because I have never tried coffee bean, and compared the differences.
Let me enumerate the differences:
1. Espresso shots are fresh. it's grind freshly when u order ur drink. unlike the starbucks it is already pre made in their machine.
2. Coffee bean uses the actual teas for all the tea drinks. Starbucks uses syrup.
3. Coffee bean uses powder to all the flavored drinks. Starbucks uses syrup again which make the drinks weak.
4. Coffee bean automatically uses nonfat milk for all the flavored drinks. Starbucks' default milk is whole milk.
5. Coffee bean uses the appropriate words for all their drinks to avoid confusion like:
a. sizes of the cups: small, medium large
starbucks: tall, grande & venti
b. LATTE means hot milk & MACCHIATO means
espresso with a teaspon of milk
so u order CARAMEL LATTE instead of CARAMEL MACCHIATO.
CHECK IT FOR YOURSELVES.
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