Did you know….
- Starbucks has added an average of two stores on a daily basis since 1987 Santa Fe Springs, Calif. has the highest concentration with 560 Starbucks stores within 25 miles
- Starbucks had 137,000 employees or "partners" as they call them in 2010. This is twice the population of Greenland.
- It opened its first store in Beijing in 1999 and there are now 376 stores in China. They expect to reach 1000 by 2015.
- The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month while a loyal 20% of customers go to the stores 16 times per month
- There are over 87,000 possible drink combinations at Starbucks
- The original Starbucks in Seattle sold coffee in 8 oz cups. During expansion, they added the 12 oz and the 16 oz then got rid of the 8 oz and added the 24 oz and finally the 30 oz Trenta...
- The Trenta is slightly bigger than your stomach with the capacity to hold 916 milliliters. The stomach on average has a capacity of 900 ml.
- A Starbucks grande coffee has 320 milligrams of caffeine, over four times the amount of caffeine in a Red Bull.
- The Starbucks cinnamon chip scone has more calories than a McDonald's quarter pounder with 480 calories
- The zip code that is the farthest from a Starbucks in the U.S. is Adak, Alaska where you would need to travel 1,044 miles for a frappucino.
- At $300 million Starbucks spends more on healthcare insurance for its employees than on coffee beans
- Starbucks uses over 93 million gallons of milk per year, enough to fill 155 Olympic-sized swimming pools
- Starbucks uses 2.3 billion paper cups per year
- The owners almost went with the name Pequod, the name of the boat in Moby Dick, instead of the character Starbucks' name
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