Facts All the Real Starbucks Lovers Out There Need to Know
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If Starbucks is basically your second home, you probably feel like you know the beloved coffee chain like the back of your hand. But we bet there are a few things that will surprise you — plus a few little-known hacks. Test your knowledge with these 17 facts!
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- Starbucks opened its first store in 1971 in Seattle's Pike Place Market (hence the coffee name).
- As of 2012, Starbucks has sold $1.5 billion worth of food in the US every year.
- The food with the most calories (540) is the double-smoked bacon, cheddar, and egg sandwich.
- And the food with the least calories (120) is the petite vanilla bean scone.
- Starbucks acquired San Francisco-based bakery La Boulange in 2012 after a widespread "customer demand for more wholesome and delicious food options."
- Santa Fe Springs, CA, has the highest concentration of Starbucks stores in the US: 56 stores in a 25-mile radius.
- The most popular drinks across the country vary tremendously. For New York, it's the Pike Place roast, San Francisco's is the soy latte, and Portland's is the eggnog latte.
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- The iconic frappuccino was born in 1995. Starbucks sold 200,000 of them in the first week, when they were only hoping for 100,000. By the end of the month, the numbers reached 800,000.
- By 2011, sales of the frappuccino were $2 billion, 20 percent of the company’s total coffee sales.
- This year, the 20-year anniversary birthday cake frappuccino made an appearance for a limited time, and there were mixed reviews.
- Addicted to the iced coffee? Here's how you can get it in a Venti cup for $2.
- You can also make top-selling favorites, like the lemon pound cake, at home.
- Think your order is complicated? Ordering the Ariana Grande complicates things a bit more.
- The Trenta is slightly bigger than your stomach, with the capacity to hold 916 milliliters. The stomach on average has a capacity of 900 milliliters.
- There are more than 87,000 possible drink combinations at Starbucks.
- A Grande coffee from Starbucks has 330 milligrams of caffeine, more than four times the amount of caffeine in a Red Bull.
- In the week leading up to Christmas 2013, Starbucks sold two million gift cards every day.
- As of March 2015, there are 20,519 store locations. That means we can always depend on Starbucks for our constant coffee needs.