People who come to live or work in downtown Lancaster shortly find out there are many places to buy coffee.
With large companies such as Cargas and Woodstream relocating recently to downtown Lancaster, coffee shops have a new possibility to emanate loyal, repeat customers.
A new LNP | LancasterOnline consult of Cargas’ and Woodstream’s total 300 employees found some reasons for locally owned shops to be confident amid new foe from Starbucks.
The consult garnered 135 responses, and, of a employees who pronounced they buy coffee in downtown Lancaster many days, 85% pronounced they cite to revisit an exclusively owned shop. That commission hold loyal not usually for Woodstream employees yet also for Cargas employees who work directly above Starbucks.
In addition, 58% of a consult respondents who pronounced they buy coffee in downtown Lancaster identified “supporting internal business” as a cause in their choice. Only ambience (86%) and preference (78%) ranked aloft among a factors, that also enclosed loyalty, price, staff/service and accumulation of drinks.
Bryan Planz, a 26-year-old comment manager during Cargas, pronounced he prefers locally owned shops, observant he mostly stops by Cafe One Eight given he lives on West Orange Street and walks right by it on his approach in to work. In a center of a day, though, he’s only as expected to revisit Starbucks.
“It is really available given it is only down a elevator,” he said.
The LNP | LancasterOnline consult offering support for a idea that internal shops don’t need to fear Starbucks. But it did brand a probable hazard to locally owned shops: giveaway coffee during work.
Cargas and Woodstream both offer giveaway coffee for their employees and 43 of 135 consult respondents pronounced they typically take advantage of that, compared to 42 who buy coffee in downtown Lancaster. Twenty-nine pronounced they make it during home.