If you want to experience Starbucks like a tourist, this is the Starbucks for you. Someone paid with pennies and held up the line during my recent visit.
If anything goes wrong (someone can't work their app), EVERYONE in the store has to help. You cannot make drinks or take orders while one person is having a problem. Expect to wait.
Look out for bleary-eyed "Good Morning America" staffers getting their morning caffeine fix. "GMA" shoots live a block away at 44th street and Broadway. Come visit! Read more
It's fun watching the tourists walk in all full of confidence thinking there will be a bathroom-- and then watching them realize this is probably the only Starbucks without one!