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[MilesColtrane]

Starbucks Finds Resting Place in Texas Funeral Home

MCKINNEY, Texas -- Owners of a funeral home in this Dallas suburb who hope to project a more progressive image have taken their customer-service concept to another level: They now sell Starbucks coffee.

Visitors to the mortuary making arrangements for loved ones can now have a macchiato instead of the ordinary cup of joe.

Turrentine Morrow Jackson Funeral Home, a family-owned business that has been operating in McKinney since 1945, opened a coffee shop in February as part of a building upgrade.

"Our clients have been spoiled by Starbucks," co-owner Terry Turrentine Irby told AOL News. The funeral home staff had always provided free coffee to clients as part of their hospitality, Irby said, but customers were becoming more discriminating in their coffee preferences.

More:

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/26/starbucks-coffee-sold-in-texas-funeral-home/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl14%7Csec3_lnk2%7C207584

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*facepalm*

[Forkboy]

1. Sales will slump during Irish wakes.

Coffee ain't what we're looking for. :)

[rasputin1952]

4. Irish coffee...

back in the days when I imbibed, it was a good fit...:D

[Forkboy]

5. I prefer my booze minus the coffee.

That shit will kill you. :)

[rasputin1952]

7. Good reason to serve it in a Funeral Home...

saves one an extra trip...:D

[Forkboy]

11. Heh!

:rofl:

[Initech]

10. I've always wondered what it would be like to combine a funeral home with a full bar.

:evilgrin:

[Forkboy]

12. Well, come on over and I'll kill you and then drink.

It won't be an exact simulation, but it should give you an idea. :P

[Initech]

14. I meant when I'm not in it.

:rofl:

[Angry Dragon]

2. As if funerals don't cost enough

[Wilms]

3. There are Starbucks at churches.

Here's a link about one. I'm aware of another.

http://www.baysideonline.com/12158/starbucks-at-church/

[Initech]

6. I'm reminded of an old Onion headline: "Starbucks to open Starbucks in bathroom of Starbucks"

[rasputin1952]

8. ...

:rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

9. lol, had to re-read it - here's the link

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-starbucks-opens-in-rest-room-of-existing-starb,560/


good stuff. :)

[rasputin1952]

13. I had to guffaw at...

"...he stayed for a poetry reading near the urinals."...:rofl:

[Ken Burch]

15. "I'll have a Vente Griefacchino, please...and my dead grandma will stay with decaf"

n/t.

[Initech]

16. They put the cream in cremation don't they?

[Ken Burch]

17. And they mean it when they say it's "good to the LAST drop".

n/t.