Tweet Coffee shop drive-thru is an American invention for the rest of the world, hard to swallow. The idea of coffee shops as the founder of Starbucks, Mr. Schultze invasions it while visiting Italy, is to create a third place to rest away from home and work. It was reported that Caribou coffee shops having tough time to stay open; where the closing hours for many Twin Cities locations show sporadic times earlier than the times customers have been used to. This is not just a caribou issue, lots of other coffee shops too finding hard to stay open. Americans drink about 146 billion cups of coffee per year.…
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My Race Conversation at Starbucks was Decaffeinated!
Tweet As racially-charged tragedies unfolded in communities across the country, the chairman and ceo of Starbucks didn’t remain a silent bystander. Howard Schultz voiced his concerns with partners (employees) in the company’s Seattle headquarters and started a discussion about race in America. Howard Schultz is the CEO of Starbucks, a coffee company that as he describes it, “is a third place away from home and work where Americans can come and enjoy drinking a good cup of coffee sitting down.” Before Starbucks, Americans usually drank coffee on the run and everyone drank the same kind of coffee – black coffee in a Styrofoam cup. Every morning it was like…