Safeway Starbucks Café: The Cosmopolitan Canopy
The Starbucks café in my local Safeway is a cosmopolitan canopy. The collection of customers and employees helps create a diversity of ethnic groups and backgrounds. There are many different ethnicities from Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic. Most of the people I saw there were working, having a meeting, studying, or catching up with friends. I visited my local Safeway Starbucks one day while my children were at school. I figured I’d blow some time before their doctor’s appointment. I went in and ordered a venti caramel macchiato, my favorite drink, once I picked up my order I went to have a seat in the café area. Near where I was sitting there was a group of girls who were very diverse
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I was intrigued so they wrote down some words on a sheet of paper and I proceeded to check whether or not they had the correct definition for each term. This encounter sticks in my memory because it was unusual to me that someone would ask a perfect stranger for help. Once we finished a few rounds of me giving them terms to define and them trying to define them correctly, they thanked me and even offered to help me with my studies if I needed assistance in the future. We exchanged email addresses and I resumed enjoying my …show more content…
There was a fairly young African American barista, another middle aged white woman, and a Mexican gentleman. They were all working together and rapidly completing orders while engaging with the many customers in line and enjoying time in the café. The Starbucks café in my local Safeway is indeed a cosmopolitan canopy within my community. Its diversity in ethnicities and backgrounds is immense. From the college students, to the businessmen, and down to the homeless. One expert on the Cosmopolitan canopies is clearly Elijah Anderson, his research on this matter is extremely in-depth. I have had the joy of experience such a canopy in my own life and it has been truly rewarding. In an excerpt from Susan Martel’s “Starbucks A Community’ Canopy’?” she thanks the Chestnut Hill Starbucks for giving the people a canopy to connect with humanity (Martel, October