Starbucks Dweller Observation 1

I observed people in the Starbucks by Rams Head dining hall and found that the number of people in Starbucks depends on the time of day. I was in Starbucks around 4 or 5 in the afternoon, and there were not too many people there. However, as the evening approached, more and more people began to show up. Almost everyone in the Starbucks had a laptop, and if not that, they had a book that they were reading. Everyone was sitting in their own comfortable area with little interaction with anyone around them. However, there were groups of people who were sitting and chatting amongst themselves. The norm seemed to be that a person would come in, order some kind of coffee drink, find a nice work place, and wait and retrieve their drink. The people would slowly sip their drink as they casually read or worked on their laptops. The atmosphere was comfortable; there were nice slower songs playing on the speakers, and the furniture is similar to that found in people’s homes. There are couches and armchairs for the people to get comfortable and stay a while. It is truly a place someone could “dwell.”