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Seattle's Historic Pike Place Market: Starbucks Coffee

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In 1971, the well- known company Starbucks opened its doors in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market with the purpose to share great coffee with their costumers and help make the world a better place, which, to this day, remains two of their main goals. The company was, back then, a single store consisting of a simple store front, offering some of the world’s greatest fresh-roasted coffee as well as coffee beans which remain the case today. (Starbucks, 2015, Company Information)
Starbucks is passionate about good and well-made coffee as well as a great “coffeehouse experience”. They are eager to please the taste buds of thousands of people by offering a variety of products such as teas and fine pastries. They want to continue to build
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