Coffee Culture – Finding Ourselves In A Starbucks

Starbucks seems to be everywhere. But does the “Starbucks experience” tell us anything about ourselves? “Founded in Seattle in 1971, Starbucks Corp. now has 11,000 outlets in 37 countries, including 500 in Tokyo. There is a Starbucks’s in Beijing’s Forbidden City, and the round green logo adorns the streets of Edinburgh and the boulevards of Paris. The company expects to open 1,800 new stores this year and aims eventually to have 30,000 outlets, half of them outside the United States.”