Top 18 Fascinating Facts About Starbucks Coffee Chain

Coffee is an indispensable passion for me! As programmers, most of us prefer the world’s giant Starbucks Coffee Chain in terms of accessibility and quality. Starbucks Coffee Chain opened its first branch in 1971. Especially with its development in the last 10 years, it has become the largest coffee chain in the world. Currently, a total of 151,000 people work full time at Starbucks, which operates in 65 countries and has 20,519 branches. Most of us react with surprise to new information about Starbucks. In this content, I have gathered facts about the Starbucks Coffee Chain that you have never heard before.

18 Facts About Starbucks

1. The reason why most Starbucks tables are round is to make customers feel less lonely.

2. Grande coffees at Starbucks contain 320 milligrams of caffeine. This figure is exactly 4 times the caffeine content of Red Bull.

3. Starbucks almost became the Pequod, after the name of the ship in Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, was the first name that came to mind. When one of the partners objected, they settled on Starbuck, the good-natured first officer of the Pequod.

4. The creators of Starbucks are two teachers and an author! After establishing Starbucks, 3 friends left the company by selling their shares.

5. Starbucks spends more on employee insurance than it spends on the cost of the coffees it sells.

6. The number of Starbucks employees is more than double the population of Greenland.

7. After the opening of a new Starbucks branch, the price of the surrounding houses is called the “Frappucino effect”.

8. When we combine the drinks in Starbucks, we can make 87,000 different drink combinations.

9. Starbucks consumes 93 million gallons of milk each year. This figure can be understood more clearly as filling 155 Olympic swimming pools at once.

10. Starbucks baristas are prohibited from using perfume because the coffee beans absorb all odors.

11. Starbucks’ first original logo featured a mermaid with open breasts. Later, the logo evolved as follows.

12. A Venti-sized Starbucks coffee has five times as much caffeine as an energy drink.

13. Starbucks consumes 2.3 billion paper cups each year. This number corresponds to 1/3 of the world’s population.

14. All Starbucks have the “10 minutes” rule: The shop opens 10 minutes before the advertised opening time and closes 10 minutes after the closing time.

15. The only Starbucks that does not ask for names and write them on glasses is the Starbucks located inside CIA Headquarters.

16. There are Starbucks disguised as boutique coffee shops in Seattle, where Starbucks is trying out new recipes.

17. Starbucks was operating under the name “Cargo House” until an advertising company suggested that they better use the current name.

18. Since 1987, an average of 2 Starbucks stores have been opened in the world every day.

How was Starbucks Established?

Starbucks, one of the most successful coffee chains in the world, has an interesting story.
Howard Schultz, who had a poor childhood, was the source of inspiration for his family’s financial difficulties and his father’s work accident. Schultz had a forward-looking childhood that always wanted to improve himself in a family environment with debts and unemployment. He was devastated when his father died of lung cancer. However, he learned new lessons from every situation he experienced and defined himself as follows:

“As a child, I never thought that I would one day be the head of the company. But I knew if I was in a position to do something different, I wouldn’t leave people behind.”

Who founded Starbucks?

In 1982, Starbucks was still a small retailer with five stores in Seattle. The original founders of Starbucks were quite far from the business person profile. Three friends and partners Gordon, Jerry and Zev didn’t start Starbucks as a company, their only goal was to make good coffee and tea, their favorite thing. Even their original occupation was very different from coffee production. Jerry, a literature graduate, was an English teacher, Gordon was a writer, and Zev Siegl taught history.

During a trip in August 1970, Gordon returned to his friends with the idea of opening a coffee shop in Seattle. Coffee and tea goers Jerry and Zev liked the idea and deposited $1,350 each and took an additional $5,000 loan from a bank. And finally that famous store was established in April 1971.

Where does the Starbucks name and icon come from?

The coffees consumed by the American public generally did not taste good. The quality of the long-lasting coffees kept on the market shelves was declining. Even the coffee advertisements could not reverse this situation. The American public, on the other hand, was dissatisfied with the situation. The first founders of Starbucks, Gordon, Jerry, Zev, wanted to open a coffee shop to change this situation. But the store needed a name and logo.

Gordon insisted on the name of the new store, Pequodism, the ship’s name in Melville’s novel Moby Dick. But his friends did not like the name. The three partners wanted something different from the North West that was both separate and connected to it.

Starbucks Coffee Chain

Terry came up with “Starbo” by researching the names of the mines on Mount Rainier. After having long conversations about it, they decided to name it “Starbucks”. In fact, they connected again from the novel Moby Dick. The name of the vice-captain on the Pequod was Starbuck.

The name brought to mind the legend of the rough seas and the maritime tradition of the first coffee traders. For Simge, they studied all the old books on maritime. They studied Nordic woodblock molds from the sixteenth century and agreed on the figure of a mermaid or sea nymph. They were going to write Starbucks Coffe on the middle of this figure and on the upper side. And in 1971 they opened the first stores of the starbucks coffee chains.