69% of Americans drink 2 or more cups of coffee every day – everything from Folgers to craft coffee roasters carefully curated in a home coffee maker or at the local coffee shop – how did the humble cup of joe come to be such a cultural phenomenon?
In 1971, Starbucks opened its first store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market CEO Howard Schultz was determined to bring Italian café culture to the US Popularized European-style drinks such as espresso and cappuccino By 2018 ー 29,324 stores worldwide with about 50% of locations in the US Seattle and the Northwest are now a hub for some of the best coffee in America.
Sites like the Tontine Coffee House in New York City and the Sazerac Coffee House in New Orleans played host to the area’s greatest thinkers and entrepreneurs In 1792, what became the New York Stock Exchange was founded at the Tontine In 1850, America’s first cocktail ― the Sazerac ― was officially named after its coffee shop home.
infographic by: www.ravereviews.org
