Because Dora's too interested in control to franchise, let alone into another country. Franchising into another company is so much of a mess that most companies that do this incorporate a subsidiary in that other country to run things. Marten doesn't really have the right feel to be a Coffee of Doom franchise owner. Coffee of Doom doesn't really feel like the establishment that I think Marten has in mind.
Some Ed
2023-08-11 01:58:03 +0000 UTC
Marten needs a job. Cubetown needs a coffee shop. Marten wanted to open one. Sooo...why not open the second store at Cubetown, and have Marten run it? That way, Claire can help out there, until she leaves CoD to officially start the new job.
jimfromtx
2023-08-10 04:42:21 +0000 UTC
Probably unfair to the young lady, who may not have any idea what she's getting into.
Ursus Ridens
2023-08-10 02:17:41 +0000 UTC
Maybe CoD opens a 2nd store?
Summer Sudbrink
2023-08-10 01:17:12 +0000 UTC
Expecting Iris to come in and threaten to burn down the bean roaster.
Sleepy John
2023-08-10 00:05:48 +0000 UTC
Damn.
Darnel D Cooper
2023-08-09 06:08:40 +0000 UTC
In the book A Suitable Boy, when Lata is considering her various suitors, she realizes that if she turns down Amit Chatterji, they will be able to remain friends, which is not true of any of the other suitors. I think something similar will happen here: Willow is so positive that she'll get over rejection and still be buddies with everyone.
(Either that or she'll be revealed as a serial killer and go after Dora.)
adrian koren
2023-08-09 05:58:00 +0000 UTC
If anything this is more professional than they’ve done it in the past
Daniel S
2023-08-09 05:44:03 +0000 UTC
I love Penny's subplot of trying and failing to bring some order to the chaos that is the management of Coffee of Doom
Bagge
2023-08-09 05:03:37 +0000 UTC
is this another character that will disappear for 2000 strips
darklion
2023-08-09 04:17:53 +0000 UTC
Hannelore would like to live in a world of rules.
Sean Kinlin
2023-08-09 03:14:20 +0000 UTC
Oh poor Hannelore.
Her sigh of defeat in the last panel is palpable.
ducksauz
2023-08-09 02:59:24 +0000 UTC
I hope Willow doesn’t blame Iris, but I hope Iris feels secretly guilty.
Populuxe
2023-08-09 02:48:50 +0000 UTC
Oh. So Dora’s going through some shit.
pseudoclever
2023-08-09 02:22:05 +0000 UTC
Sacked for failing to meet KPIs at that rate, surely.
Simon Green
2023-08-09 02:20:22 +0000 UTC
And Marten! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=691
(I still kind of think of Tai as one of the newer characters, and she's been in the strip since triple digits. Christ on a bike.)
Diptych
2023-08-09 02:02:55 +0000 UTC
Not the first instant hire in QC, see Wil:
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1480
Captain Button
2023-08-09 02:00:54 +0000 UTC
Had it taken any faster, there would be accusations that Dora is an AI program who escaped from a medical insurance corporation tasked with rejecting 50 medical claims in 1.2 seconds.