Starbucks facts for kids
Starbucks headquarters at Starbucks Center in Seattle, Washington
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| Industry | Coffee shop |
| Founded | 1971 Pike Place Market, Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | 2401 Utah Avenue South,
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U.S.
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Number of locations
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23,768 (2016) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| Revenue |  US$ 16.447 billion (2014) |
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Operating income
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US$ 3.081 billion |
| Total assets |  US$ 10.752 billion (2014) |
| Total equity | US$ 5.272 billion (2014) |
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Number of employees
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191,000 (2014) |
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Starbucks is a chain of stores that sell coffee. A chain is many stores owned by the same company. Many of the stores look the same, and all stores sell the same items, often at the same prices. As well as coffee, Starbucks sells beverages and baked goods.
Starbucks started in Seattle in the United States in 1971. The number of stores has grown quickly. There are over 9,000 Starbucks stores all over the world. Most of these stores are in the United States. Some large cities in the U.S. have many Starbucks stores. Sometimes they open so many stores in one city that there are two Starbucks within a few blocks of each other.
Starbucks sells many kinds of drinks. There are 5 sizes: short, tall, grande, venti and trenta. There are many ways to customize each drink. A frappuccino, for example, is a cold drink. Flavored syrup and cream is added to coffee or juice and stirred with ice.
Some stores sell special items, such as mugs related to the city they are located in.
International growth
The first Starbucks in Japan opened in Ginza in 1996. There were 985 stores in Japan in 2012.
Images for kids
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Interior of the Pike Place Market location in 1977
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Howard Schultz served as chief executive from 1986 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2017.
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Starbucks workers protesting in Seattle
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Graph showing the growth in the number of Starbucks stores between 1971 and 2011
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Starbucks' caffe lattes
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Starbucks Cafe in Warsaw, Poland, 2014
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Starbucks at Helsinki Airport in Vantaa, Finland, 2018
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Starbucks Drive-Thru at Seremban 2, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia in 2021
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Starbucks inside Fourways Mall, South Africa
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A typical retail area, this one in Bangalore, India, showing a display of food and the beverage preparation area
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Roy Street Coffee & Tea in Seattle, an example of a stealth Starbucks, 2016
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Fair trade coffee beans, pictured here being sorted in 2007, have made up the majority of Starbucks' imports from coffee-producing countries.
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Starbucks's Hear Music Coffeehouse in downtown San Antonio, Texas, 2006
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A line outside "Dumb Starbucks" on February 9, 2014
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