Firstly let’s do a survey.
As a college student from China ,the homeland of tea, when you have a relaxed time to have a drink, which one would you like to choose, the coffee or tea?
In 1987 Starbucks
was up for sale and Howard Schultz, who owned a coffee shop named IL Giornale, raised the $3.8 million to amalgamate(合并) Starbucks with his own coffee shop.
He modified the
Starbucks’ bare-breasted mermaid logo into a more socially acceptable figure, changed the name of IL Giornale to Starbucks and converted the six existing Starbucks’ roasting shops into Italian-style elegant(高 雅的), comfortable coffee houses. Starbucks coffee history was just beginning to take shape.
Howard Schultz
Introduction
Starbucks(星巴克) is a large multinational
chain of coffee shops with its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Its coffee shops in the U.S. are especially popular among students and young urban professionals. The company was in part named after Starbucks, a character in Moby Dick(大白鲸).