1:05 am - 01/13/2013
Daniel S Levine
1/12/2013
Starbucks and other rivals are hoping to stop actor Patrick Dempsey’s group from completing its purchase of Tully’s coffee to save the Washington-based company from shutting down. They say that the charming actor, who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy, managed to win even though he didn’t put in the highest bid.
Last month, Dempsey joined a group hoping to save Tully’s, which has locations in Washington and California. Then, last week, the group won the company with a $9.15 million bid, beating out Starbucks. The move was praised throughout Seattle, which was excited to see a local company survive.
However, The Wall Street Journal reports that Starbucks and the other losers aren’t going down without a fight. Starbucks and another company say that they put in $10.5 million bids, but they were ignored due to his "McDreamy" charm. They took their complaints to U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Seattle on Friday.
The attorneys of a Denver company that bid $4.3 million said that Dempsey’s group “may have impeded financing for qualified bidders and creates the appearance that its bid was favored.”
Still, Tully’s Chief Executive Scott Pearson has praised Dempsey for saving the company and 480 jobs.
“Many Tully’s customers strongly prefer, and paid for a Tully’s product, as opposed to Starbucks,” Pearson said in court documents Thursday, ushering the court to approve the deal.
According to The Seattle Times, Pearson also has to fight Tully’s founder Tom O’Keefe, who wanted to keep the auction going. In his Thursday filing, Pearson said that O’Keefe had no stake in the company’s actions.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which supplies Tully’s coffee, is also a player and could have delayed the proceedings if Starbucks won. However, it said that it would work with Dempsey AgriNature, another company that tried to buy Tully’s.
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Coffee post ?
Starbucks is mad cuz McDreamy is stylin on them
Starbucks among group claiming Patrick Dempsey unfairly charmed coffee chain auctioneers
1/12/2013
Starbucks and other rivals are hoping to stop actor Patrick Dempsey’s group from completing its purchase of Tully’s coffee to save the Washington-based company from shutting down. They say that the charming actor, who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy, managed to win even though he didn’t put in the highest bid.
Last month, Dempsey joined a group hoping to save Tully’s, which has locations in Washington and California. Then, last week, the group won the company with a $9.15 million bid, beating out Starbucks. The move was praised throughout Seattle, which was excited to see a local company survive.
However, The Wall Street Journal reports that Starbucks and the other losers aren’t going down without a fight. Starbucks and another company say that they put in $10.5 million bids, but they were ignored due to his "McDreamy" charm. They took their complaints to U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Seattle on Friday.
The attorneys of a Denver company that bid $4.3 million said that Dempsey’s group “may have impeded financing for qualified bidders and creates the appearance that its bid was favored.”
Still, Tully’s Chief Executive Scott Pearson has praised Dempsey for saving the company and 480 jobs.
“Many Tully’s customers strongly prefer, and paid for a Tully’s product, as opposed to Starbucks,” Pearson said in court documents Thursday, ushering the court to approve the deal.
According to The Seattle Times, Pearson also has to fight Tully’s founder Tom O’Keefe, who wanted to keep the auction going. In his Thursday filing, Pearson said that O’Keefe had no stake in the company’s actions.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which supplies Tully’s coffee, is also a player and could have delayed the proceedings if Starbucks won. However, it said that it would work with Dempsey AgriNature, another company that tried to buy Tully’s.
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Coffee post ?
also I heard you like Tully's so I put some Tully's in your Tully's
Edited at 2013-01-13 06:33 am (UTC)
white russians are the bomb though
-seattlite
Idk if our dd is just shit or w/e but the coffee is always too strong and kills my stomach.
sometimes RT @beardedaxe: @coffee_dad what do you do for a living?
the only things i ever get are one of the following:
green tea or green tea lemonade
black tea with two pumps of raspberry
green tea latte (hot)
white chocolate mocha (hot/iced)
vanilla chai latte
And the iced salted caramel mocha.
I also love peppermint mocha and caramel macchiato
Salted Caramel Mocha
Hot Chocolate
Skinny Mocha when I feel like a fat ass
Peppermint mocha frappuccinos are super rich but reaaally good desert drinks. And salted caramel mochas omfg
I tried the new vanilla spice latte but I didn't like it. :C Maybe iced would be better idk
I also like the occasional sweetened passion tea lemonade
that's about it
Passion fruit ice tea
Zucchini bread (haven't seen this in any shops in YEARS tbh)
one of my favorite different drinks i get when i'm feeling down is a iced white chocolate mocha with a pump of raspberry. it's so rich and amazing.
another one is the green tea lemonade with a raspberry shot.
also what do chai lattes taste like? i've heard they're good but i'm put off by the tea/coffee mix.
Edited at 2013-01-13 06:48 am (UTC)
in the summer I either get green tea lemonade or iced coffee w soymilk.
a tall, 1/2 sweet toffee nut, soy, xtra foam, kid's temp latte
orrrr
a solo, grande, 2 pump chai 1 pump cinn dolce, soy, no water, xtra foam kid's temp tazo chai or latte or w/e they call it.
i used to work there, so i probably sound like an asshole when i order, but w/e except for the chai (which i only order where i know the people) my first drink's simple as shit and ppl can deal.
If not in the mood for a misto -
Caramel macchiato
Caramel frap
almost anything seasonal.
Just tried the vanilla spice latte - good stuff
I am thankful for skinny lattes and lite fraps. It sucks because the rewards program used to give you free syrups so I'd go get skinny coffee fraps and add sugar free hazelnut or vanilla syrups in for free.
salted caramel mocha frap
iced skinny caramel latte
unsweetened iced passion tea
iced white chocolate mocha very rarely
And the pumpkin spice or mocha coconut when they're around.
My coworkers and I also liked making random fraps with the cheescakes lol. Like "pumpkin pie cheesecake" fraps, etc (that was the best one btw). In the two or so years I worked there we only had like two people order a weirdo mixed frap like that lol
soy no-whip peppermint mocha is my year-round standard
soy no-whip mocha light frap in the summer
green iced tea with 1-pump of sweetener
Decaf Nonfat No whip Mocha's hot or iced.
Pumpkin Spice Latte - when 'tis the season
Caramel Frapp
Chocolate frapp
nom nom
white peppermint mocha
Venti triple decaf, no foam soy, no vanilla syrup, one-pump white mocha, one scoop vanilla bean powder, 165 degrees, upside down caramel macchiato.
I really want to ask for some kind of cookies and creme kind of thing but I think they'll look at me funny.
salted caramel latte as a seasonal drink
standard cappuccino
Hazlenut latte
Passion tea/lemonade
Latte (hot or iced depending on the weather) with a shot of hazelnut
Caramel macchiato frap
Chai latte (hot or iced depending on the weather)
Coconut cream frap
have a hard enough time payinn 2 bucks for a coffee, let alone shelling out more for something fussy.
or usually i get some boring like a plain latte
unless it's the holidays then egg nog lattes forever
Passion iced tea
Iced decaf caramel macchiato with 2% milk
I used to get the eggnog lattes but I had a terrible one down the Cape and I was so turned off.
OH and I get those rice krispie treats, YEAHHH
And just like if I was selling my house, if I want to sell it to a kind couple for 250k instead of an asshole for 300k then that's my business.
and now where I live (north of Seattle) pretty much every major shopping complex has a Starbucks, many with drive-trus, and most grocery stores have a Starbucks inside them. It's insane.
//notrealproblemsbutstillsomehowproblems
Ironically I turned to Teavana as an alternative option and what happens? Starbucks buys them out too. I lose lol /csb
My sister will die if she has milk. Though I don't think she goes to starbucks much anymore.
and since starbucks does it, most places charge extra for soymilk now bc they can.
/firstworldproblems
But I am a tea drinker. Just got 150 organic green tea bags at the store tonight ♥
Edited at 2013-01-13 06:32 am (UTC)