that burning coffee smell
should I complain?
i mean it is a successful business, it has become an icon of sorts for our city and a place of great sophistication in a largely unsophisticated world. it easily produces the best coffee in the city, possibly the whole country. it’s really cool that stratford is one of the few places in canada that actually has a coffee shop that roasts its own coffee. it laughs at places like tim hortons — they cant possibly hope to better them with their plain, boring brew. back when i drank coffee i always bought it at this place.
but i’ve got a problem with it.
you see my shop is only a couple of doors down from this place and a couple of times a month, all i can smell is burning coffee. not the happy smell of roasting coffee or brewing coffee, but the acrid, lung searing smell of burning biomass, hinted with the aroma of coffee.
burning smell is a normal thing when you roast up coffee beans but this morning it was so bad i had to close the window because it was making my throat hurt. my shop is going to stink of burning coffee for hours now. in a way, this is a kind of pollution.
if i was roasting up a few dozen power supplies in the morning (and you know what that smells like) people would surely complain. am i just being a wuss here, or should i complain about the burning coffee smell that comes from balzac’s?
I’d maybe just mention it to them about how it some times get so bad. You would think other people in the area must notice it as well. I hope they don’t over roast the bean like they do at Starbucks to extend the flavor of the beans. Tim’s does the same to a lesser degree I hear.
Comment by Michael Campbell — 2008/6/5 @ 11:40
It smells just as bad at home, only a few blocks away. I’m not big on coffee in the first place, but honestly the smell of BURNT anything turns my stomach.
Comment by Marcy — 2008/6/7 @ 08:49