At last count there were 16,635 franchises in the United States. Starbucks has some thoughts of some day surpassing McDonalds in franchise numbers.
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In many cases Starbucks runs them out of business but if you don't like Starbucks and you like the coffee you get at a smaller coffee shop, then Starbucks is helpful to the smaller coffee shops in a way.
The chain of coffee shops is spelled Starbucks. (no apostrophe)
There are Starbucks Coffee Shops in all 50 U.S. states, in the District of Columbia, and in the unincorporated U.S. territory of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. There are currently no Starbucks in any of the other four unincorporated U.S. territories.
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Coffee shops that sell cappuccinos are Starbucks and Panera Bread.
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Starbucks is not a political organization, it is a chain of coffee shops. The gun debate is not relevant to coffee.
As of 2011, Starbucks employed 149,000 people.
With Starbucks beating out the rest in sales, other popular coffee shops are Seattle’s Best (which is also owned by Starbucks), Caribou and Peet's Coffee.
Nowhere, as there are no "Starbucks" shops anywhere in Johannesburg or South Africa.
The Starbucks experience came after the Starbucks brand, it was created by the CEO Howard Schultz as an improvement of the already working coffee shops. Yet this is a tricky question customers, as consumers then, existed first yet the typical hipster customer of Starbucks as we know it came after.