Costa Coffee

Workplace Coffee Retail

Description

Costa Coffee brands coffee stands in office receptions, delivering beverages to workers during daily routines. Paul scans its menu while arguing childcare with Julia, his distraction underscoring the stand's role as a mundane commercial anchor in tense corporate-personal overlaps. Helinka appears nearby, tying the brand to on-site staffing and service amid the scene's family crisis.

Event Involvements

Events with structured involvement data

1 events

S1E1 · MOTHERLAND

Practical Fix, Emotional Disconnect: Cleaner Refused, Call Cut

Costa Coffee functions as the institutional backdrop: its branded stand and menu create the routine environment that distracts Paul and provides the presence of on-site staff (Helinka). The brand's normalcy and accessibility indirectly shape the domestic solution Paul proposes.

Active Representation

Through the physical Costa Coffee stand and menu, and the presence of on-site staff behind the counter.

Power Dynamics

Primarily neutral/commercial; exerts soft influence by normalizing on-site staff as practical resources and by offering comforting routine that competes with private emergencies.

Institutional Impact

Highlights how corporate conveniences and service economy workers become implicated in private-family negotiations and classed assumptions about who is 'suitable' for childcare.

Organizational Goals

Serve customers quickly during the morning rush Maintain a calm, reliable presence in the office reception Provide staff who are visible and available (implicitly presented as potential resources)

Influence Mechanisms

Physical presence and accessibility of staff (resource availability) Brand familiarity that normalizes on-site solutions Cultural comfort offered through food/drink (distraction that reorients attention)