Hello again,
\njust wanted to throw down some Starbucks facts since we go there some much. For starters, if you go to Starbucks and order a Grande, ice chai latte 5 times a week for a year, 5 x $3.82 x 52 weeks = $993.20. wow, that’s almost a $1,000.00 dollars a year just on coffee. Here are some other cool facts that we found on the internet, www.starbucks.com<\/p>\n
\u0095 Started in 1971 in Seattle\u0092s Pike Place Market. Original name of company was Starbucks
\nCoffee, Tea and Spices, later changed to Starbucks Coffee Company.<\/p>\n
\u0095 Stores
\n7,087 Company-operated stores in the US.
\n4,081 Licensed stores.
\n43 countries outside the United States.<\/p>\n
\u0095 Provided 4.9 million hours of training for our store partners.
\n\u0095 Donated $36.1 million in cash and products.
\n\u0095 Volunteered 383,000 hours in our communities through our volunteer
\nprogram Make Your Mark.
\n\u0095 Paid an average price of $1.42 per pound of green (unroasted) coffee,
\nincluding those purchased from approved suppliers through our own set of
\nsocial and environmental guidelines for producing, processing and buying
\ncoffee (C.A.F.E. Practices) and Fair Trade cooperatives.
\n\u0095 Quadrupled our renewable energy purchase to equal 20 percent of the energy
\nused in our company-operated stores in the U.S. and Canada.
\n\u0095 Introduced the first-ever paper cup made with 10 percent post-consumer
\nrecycled fiber which reduced our wood use by 11,300 tons \u0096 the equivalent of
\n78,000 trees \u0096 in the first year alone.
\n\u0095 Recycled in 79 percent of our U.S. and Canada stores where we control waste
\nand recycling.<\/p>\n