Starbucks

Starbucks Locations Worldwide

Founding History

The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 31, 1971,by three partners who met while they were students at the University of San Francisco: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet after he taught them his style of roasting beans. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick: Starbuck, after considering “Cargo House” and “Pequod”. Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with “st” were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with “st”. Someone pulled out an old mining map of the Cascade Range and saw a mining town named “Starbo”, which immediately put Bowker in mind of the character “Starbuck”.

Surprising Facts about

It was founded by two teachers and a writer
The most loyal 20% of customers come into the store at least 16 times per month.
There are over 87,000 drink combination possibilities.
The “trenta” sized cup holds more liquid than the human stomach.
The inventor of the Pumpkin Spice Latte was a Stanford basketball player.
Since 1987, an average of two Starbucks stores have opened each day.
The majority of their flavored drinks contain more sugar than one should consume in entire day.
A “grande” sized coffee contains four times the amount of caffeine as Red Bull.
Starbucks spends more on the healthcare insurance of its employees than on its coffee beans.

Number of Starbucks stores in each country across the world.

It is clearly seen that vast majority of the stores are located in USA while next biggest market is Canada and China.

How many Starbucks stores are open around the world?

## [1] 25600

How many countries have Starbucks stores?

## [1] 73

How many cities have Starbucks stores?

## [1] 5471

Which are the Top 10 countries with most stores?

More than 50% of the stores are in USA
Nearly 85% of the stores are in Top 10 countries
Second biggest market for Starbucks is China
Surprisingly India which is the second largest populated and one of the fastest growing economies is not in Top 10.

Which are the Top 10 cities with most stores?

Surprising that Non-US have the highest number of stores.
They have more stores than NYC or any US cities.
Silicon Valley of USA does not come in Top 10 cities.
Top city has more than double the number of stores compared to NYC. :)

How many stores are actually owned and run by Starbucks?

46% of the stores are company owned
Less than 2% are franchised stores
They have around 15% of the stores on Joint venture. This is mostly in countries where 100% FDI is/was not allowed to start their own stores.

In which countries has Starbucks entered into Joint Venture to start their stores?

Starbucks has joint venture with other companies in major Asian economies like Japan, china and India.
All the stores in India are under Joint Venture between Starbucks and Tata group.
TATA Starbucks Private Limited, formerly known as Tata Starbucks Limited, is a 50:50 joint venture company, owned by Tata Global Beverages and Starbucks Corporation, that owns and operates Starbucks outlets in India. The outlets are branded Starbucks “A Tata Alliance”.

California has huge number of stores. Vast majority of stores in USA are in CA.
Second state in line is having only around 35% of what CA has
If California was a country, it would have been the biggest country for Starbucks after USA.
California has more stores than second biggest country in the list - China.

References

Acknowledgements

https://www.kaggle.com/starbucks/store-locations
This data was scraped from the Starbucks store locator webpage by Github user chrismeller.