Coffee Places Around Town

Coffee joints have been mushrooming all across town the past couple of years. From Coffee Bean to Starbucks to Gloria Jeans to Austin Chase. I spend a lot of my time in places like these. Its either meeting customers or reading a book at Starbucks in Borders. I recently came across Gloria Jeans@The Curve and I absolutely like their non-smoking room.

Its a room with 3 tables and its super cold which is nice as Malaysian weather is non too cold. I dislike stuffy places or joints where the air conditioning leaves you sweating. Starbucks in Borders are awesome because you can browse books in them. I am going to list down discounts at the different coffee places around town.


Starbucks:

• 10% discount given with HSBC cards
• Buy 7 drinks and receive a small sized drink for free
  

Coffee Bean:

• Prepaid system, additional 10% value given for top-up (top up RM50 and you get a value of RM55)
• Every cent spent yields loyalty points (100 points is equivalent to 10 cents)

Gloria Jeans :

• Buy 10 drinks get one Regular sized drink for free
• 20% off drinks with Amex
• 30% off drinks if you are a Digi customer (dont know the mechanics of this system though)

Austin Chase :

• No discounts nor are there any loyalty card system yet

One thing great about Austin Chase is they have a good selection of magazines / board games and the sofa's are comfortable. They have the usual board games and not euro board games or any of the non-mainstream boardgames you find at Toybox (www.toybox.com.my) though.