Starbucks Cabana by the Beach

[LockH]

... in east Toronto (originally the town of Carbeeria (sp?), on the old "Indian" path - folks that weren't actually from India - to Kings Town in eastern Ontario (aka the city of "Kingston").

Situation is, the Starbucks chain of coffee/snacks stores from Seattle has spread all over the place... currently about a dozen alone, just "in my neighbourhood".

... and in 2016 one opened up on Kingston Road, taking over the box shaped ground floor, stand-alone building previously run as a Country Style donuts coffee shop (a division of MTY Tiki Ming Enterprises Inc.) at 2387 KR (One can view via Giggle StreetView (sp?) and when they went by in August, 2016 the signage still shows it as a Country Style...).

This building receives daily sunshine from sun up to sun down (will as long as the planet keeps spinning and revolving around the sun...)

Currently (Ebiker humour) ES Bible reports "Search found 20 matches: +polysilicon"... now 21 matches.

Yah can read about this stuff here:
http://www.solarmango.com/scp/polysilicon-from-sand-to-solar-cells-it-starts-here/

... "Polysilicon, a highly refined form of silicon, is the starting material for solar cells"...

... but getting EVen stranger... ESB "No suitable matches were found"... for "Quartzite":
(Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartzite

(ESB "Search found 27 matches: +Sandstone")

... but might just think "beach sand"?

Anyway... Not to get too far OT, point being one can manufacture solar cells using just "beach sand" plus plenty of heat. "Plenty of heat"? Oh oh... but think "solar concentrator". (ESB "Search found 34 matches: +solar +concentrator"... now 35...)

So, one might "crank up" solar cell production using just "beach sand" and the POWER of the sun aka "sunlight".

In other words, solar cell production is "cheap" to do. Yah might see stuff on the web like:

But getting back to that Starbucks location... EVery day they crank one or two ovens, coffee makers, etc while baking under a hot sun. Solution? CRANK the air conditioning!

(Watt they pay for, so add to their prices for stuff like coffee, etc.) ... so SOME customers FREEZE... it gets kinda chilly sitting in the shaded front/north end of their building.

Alternative solution? Shade off the roof and south and west faces of their building... maybe like the US Army does currently? One pic:

Hmmm... Nice shaded roof and canopies... Might be nice to add a big deck/patio above the building? "Above" meaning standing on columns just above and over the building so as to NOT add any weight to the (cheaply built, thin, etc) building itself. Add stairs up/down on the outside (more canopy plus more "thin film" solar blanketing... maybe like this

So you expand seating capacity for this location... save air conditioning costs... and generate your own electricity for powering "stuff" as well. Like maybe plugins for electric bikes [cough cough].

I post this to ES... `cause I've been TRYING to get Starbucks interested in 1)Generating more revenue and 2) Saving operating costs using "social media" like FacePlant (sp?) like setting up a FP Group "Starbucks Cabana by the Beach":
https://www.facebook.com/StarbuxCabana/

... but so far have been unable to get anybuddy at Starbucks to WAKE UP to these opportunities lost.

[Sigh] Watts a guy to do? ANY thoughts?

Signed - Frustrated and Amused

 

[LockH]

This post "The Dumb Zone"...

Awefully nice (sp?) of this Starbux location to set up a few seats where a few customers might sit for a bit while Baking Their Brains.



Outdoor location "enjoys" a few hours of direct sunshine each day... And todaze local weather forecast:

Expected Max UV Observation:
Updated: Thursday, August 10, 2017, 3:01 PM
7 High

Note that the window shades are installed on the INSIDE of the windows (and already pulled down today)... instead of installing some (thick, cloth - one old sailor suggests using strips of Sunbrella (TM) brand fabric) canopy shades on the OUTSIDE. Where canopies can also support those "thin film" blanket solar cells to generate electricity... like for thirsty ebikers.

EDIT: Their batteries, silly!

Gee... Hope Starbux isn't embarrassed TOO much by their lack of thought...

 

[LockH]

The Garbage Zone...

On July 7... a few daze ago, I picked up some "stuff" littering their property:


Lessee... Yah gots yer "Bucket of the Colonel" (large paper cup for Pepsi (TM)... guessing wind blown from their KFC store quite some distance away at 2383 Kingston Road...)... yer coffee cup brown plastic lid from Timmys (coffee shop chain Tim Hortons resto at 2294 Kingston Rd)... Hey! Watts that green plastic stir stick Starbux? Now gotta how much of their (recyclable... maybe) food and drink, etc packaging stuff DOES actually get recycled versus littering the landscape... How much packaging "stuff" they actually buy and hand out the window to (large) folks driving by ("too much trouble" to park their vehicles and stagger "all that way" across the parking lot - watt used to be termed "walking"...)



:lol:

 

[The fingers]

Here they're trying to ban Styrofoam food and beverage containers which break into millions of tiny pieces and don't decompose for thousands of years, in favor of paper and plastic which are more likely to be recycled.
The reality? Flood control channels are filled with cigarette butts, plastic bags, used diapers, motor oil, brake dust, animal waste and fertilizer which drains into the ocean.

 

[LockH]

Starbux Widows and Orphans Fund

In todaze local newz... "New study finds higher air pollution at Starbux Drive-Thru zones"

Watt says in part:

Employees are giving more than just a coffee at Starbux drive-thru zones, according to research from the University of Toronto.

The study published in the journal Atmospheric Environment looked at Starbux employees across Hamilton and found more air pollution around drive-thru zones, where folks line up in cars to pick up their coffees.

... as already seen at a school zone in the USA and reported in ES Newz:
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... but at Starbux drive-thru coffee shops this goes on all day long.

So Starbux reports today they're setting up a fund to help support those dead and dying decades from now. Great news!

 

[LockH]

Here they're trying to ban Styrofoam food and beverage containers which break into millions of tiny pieces and don't decompose for thousands of years, in favor of paper and plastic which are more likely to be recycled.
The reality? Flood control channels are filled with cigarette butts, plastic bags, used diapers, motor oil, brake dust, animal waste and fertilizer which drains into the ocean.

^^ Yup. Watt he said. Hi Fingers Guy. Wish my fingers worked as well as yours. (Now have to worry the Starbux will chop my fingers off when I stop by.) :?


PS... :lol: