{"id":2100,"date":"2013-03-02T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2013-03-02T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:43:49","slug":"looking-for-the-perfect-mocha-at-a-reasonable-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2013\/03\/02\/looking-for-the-perfect-mocha-at-a-reasonable-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For The Perfect Mocha At A Reasonable Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t all that long ago that the McCafe was the new &#8220;product&#8221; from McDonald&#8217;s and they were advertising it very heavily on local TV. I&#8217;ve seen several different commercials recently, and that&#8217;s with just the little bit of TV that I&#8217;ve watched. According to the local Business Journal, the man who owns most of the McDonald&#8217;s franchises in Alabama has spent a WHOLE lot of money remodeling the Alabama restaurants to include a McCafe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to visiting a McCafe and trying their coffee. I wonder if it tastes as good as a Starbucks and how much of the flavoring you have to add yourself instead of a trained barista. I&#8217;m not optimistic what-so-ever, since every time I drink just a plain old McDonald&#8217;s coffee it upsets my stomach for hour after drinking, so I would imagine that it will be the same with their specialty barista drinks.<\/p>\n<p>So far I haven&#8217;t found anywhere that makes the hot mocha that I enjoy drinking day or night, summer or winter as well as Starbucks. But seriously someone could go broke frequenting Starbucks. Last time I was at a Starbucks I was really happy to see that they have started their own &#8220;Customer Rewards&#8221; program so that after a certain amount of purchases you get a free drink. The bad news is that you have to purchase 20 drinks to get a free one. That&#8217;s a lot of purchasing going on in order to get a free one. At least with Sheetz you only have to buy 10 in order to get a free one. They are a bit cheaper than Sheetz and are the closest to the Starbucks flavor that I have found anywhere else yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t all that long ago that the McCafe was the new &#8220;product&#8221; from McDonald&#8217;s and they were advertising it very heavily on local TV. I&#8217;ve seen several different commercials recently, and that&#8217;s with just the little bit of TV that I&#8217;ve watched. According to the local Business Journal, the man who owns most of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2013\/03\/02\/looking-for-the-perfect-mocha-at-a-reasonable-cost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking For The Perfect Mocha At A Reasonable Cost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,10,11,22,26],"tags":[40,85,87,89,110,120,131,134,204,260,284,294],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainmentfun","category-financemonies","category-food","category-shopping","category-traveltransportation","tag-barista","tag-commercials","tag-comparison-shopping","tag-convenience","tag-drink","tag-entertainment","tag-finance","tag-food","tag-mocha","tag-shopping-2","tag-technology","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}