Abdullah Alshawdhabi
Coleman University
Starbucks
The Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee house that is stationed in Seattle Washington. Starbucks was founded in 1971 by three students that met at the University of San Francisco; Jerry Baldwin who was an English teacher, Zev Siegl who was a History teacher, and Gordon Bowker who was a Writer. They were inspired by their friend by the name of Alfred Peet, who was a coffee roasting entrepreneur who taught them about his projects. They started off only selling roasted whole coffee beans and the only made coffee they had in their stores in the beginning was just for taste testing purposes and not for sale to the customers.
Starbucks worldwide
Starbucks is known all over the world and has coffee houses in parts of Asia, Africa, Europe, Columbia, and in parts of the Middle East including Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria. Starbucks is also the largest coffee house firm in the world with over twenty thousand stores in sixty five countries including America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Norway, Finland, India and many more. Starbucks serves many hot beverages like coffees, teas, hot chocolates, and they also serve a variety of pastries and snacks, some stores also sell hot and cold sandwiches and some prepackaged food items and fruit drinks. Starbucks also sells a variety of beers and wines after 4pm at many of their locations. You don’t have to go to a Starbucks store to get some of their goodies. You can also walk into many grocery stores and pick up some Starbucks specialty coffees and ice creams. (Flynn, Mar2013)
They have started what they call the ‘skinny lines’ which are low calorie and sugar free varieties of their original coffees. They offer skim milk, and natural sweeteners like raw sugar, and honey. They also started serving some salads and baked goods that are without artificial ingredients that attract the health conscious customers. And in June of
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