Definition of "Starbucks"

Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe.

2005 April 30, Melinda Newman, “Q&A”, in Billboard, number 18, page 31

Consider the Starbucks effect in the slogans written up recently in Fast Company magazine, where companies from various sectors now aspire to be the 'Starbucks of their respective industry': ...

2008, Andrew M. Jones, The Innovation Acid Test: Growth Through Design and Differentiation

On my three-block walk to the subway I noticed not one, not two, but four Starbucks, which was quite a high concentration of retail outlets even for the Queen of Caffeine.

2010, Michael Salvatore, {Between} Boyfriends, Kensington Books, page 49

Companies now want to turn themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.”

2013, Taylor Clark, Starbucked

Many people began to wonder whether we really needed two Starbucks directly across the street from each other.

2015, O. C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, Linda Ferrell, Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases, 10th edition, Cengage Learning, page 397

Said the CEO of the nearly 500-plus store Caribou Coffee chain, “I got into the business because of what they [Starbucks] created.” In China, a small chain, Real Brewed Tea, aims to be “the Starbucks of tea.”

2014, George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society

I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose.

2009, Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel, page 163

One part-time sociologist made an even more damning indictment: “Calling yourself a coffee nerd while drinking Starbucks is like calling yourself a beer nerd while drinking Budweiser.”

2009, Bryant Simon, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, University of California Press, page 56

I read it straight through while I drank three Starbucks.

2010, Timothy, “How My Life Changed”, in Kevin Leman, Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days, Revell, page 73

“Good, have they got coffee?” Lorraine nodded. “Yes, they’ve been in since about eight and brought Starbucks.”

2015, Valerie Goldsilk, Sins of Our Sisters, Whiskey Creek Press

US Weekly’s regular photographic feature, “Stars: They’re Just Like Us!” which features celebrities engaged in such mundanities as pumping their own gas or drinking Starbucks, is a direct visual demonstration of this condescending simulated intimacy.

2017, Karen Adkins, Gossip, Epistemology, and Power: Knowledge Underground, Palgrave Macmillan, page 239