Peets Coffee & Tea

OK, I’ve been here enough to note the following: the staff does not stir the coffee like soup, it’s abandoned in its pot til it gets bitter and you, patron, come along four hours later to purchase it. It doesn’t matter that it’s caffeine, and it doesn’t make up for the Freddy’s décor/​onslaught of pop music that the refill is free. There is nothing worse than the long walk out to the parking lot with a cup of pointlessly brewed Peet’s, bitter and almost personally insulting… plus the blond girl, who is perhaps part of a secret network of spies hired by Jon, the über manager of Peets for the Portland metor area, is ALWAYS snippy to me. I have bought coffee here twice in the past four months… each time, she accuses me of trying to get a free refill. Just for reminders, they GIVE free refills here. And it does take two cups to water down the bitterness to drinkability.