Peet’s plans to open kiosks in 8 BART Stations
By Blanca Torres
Monday, March 31st, 2008 at 11:53 am in retaildetail.
RETAIL DETAIL | One more reason to ride BART! Peet’s Coffee & Tea, based in Emeryville, announced plans to set up eight kiosks inside BART Stations including Embarcadero, Montgomery St., Pittsburgh/BayPoint, Downtown Berkeley, Civic Center and Daly City. The remaining two are yet to be named.
The kiosks will offer the full-line of Peet’s beverage products and should open by the end of 2008. The first station, Embarcadero, will be up and running in April. An outside company, Metropolitan Coffee & Concession, will operate the kiosks under Peet’s name. This arrangement is similar to how Safeway operates Starbucks kiosks inside some of its stores.
This is great news for commuters like me who don’t want to make an extra stop to get coffee on the way to work. Somehow walking an extra block or two to get coffee just doesn’t happen.
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March 31st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I’m only an occasional BART user, so forgive me if I’ve got this wrong, but you can’t bring your coffee onto the train, right? That means Peet’s is going after the departing passengers. Do you regular BART users like to grab your jolt at the end of the commute like that, or do you prefer to try to consume it before getting on the train? (As a driving commuter, I almost always get my start with coffee on the way to work.)