Editing Starbucks (section)

==== 1970s ====
Starbucks originally opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.starbucks.ph/coffeehouse/store-design/1st-and-pike | title=1st And Pike | work=Starbucks Coffee Company | publisher=Starbucks | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325110527/https://www.starbucks.com/coffeehouse/store-design/1st-and-pike | archive-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref> By selling high-quality [[coffee bean]]s and equipments related, Starbucks became a local coffee bean retailer for the first ten years in Seattle.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chuang |first=Hui-Jung |date=December 1, 2019 |title=Starbucks in the World |journal=HOLISTICA – Journal of Business and Public Administration |language=en |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=99–110 |doi=10.2478/hjbpa-2019-0031|s2cid=209379116 |doi-access=free |issn = 2067-9785}}</ref> It was founded by business partners [[Jerry Baldwin]], [[Zev Siegl]] and [[Gordon Bowker]] who first met as students at the [[University of San Francisco]]:<ref>{{cite book | title=Time Out Guide San Francisco | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esY90CkrXbYC | year=2011 | publisher=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] | isbn=978-1-84670-220-4}}</ref> The trio were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur [[Alfred Peet]].<ref name="Pren2523">Pendergrast, pp. 252–53</ref> Bowker recalls that a business partner of his, Terry Heckler, thought words beginning with the letters "st" were powerful, leading the founders to create a list of words beginning with "st", hoping to find a brand name. They chose "Starbo", a mining town in the [[Cascade Range]] and from there, the group remembered "Starbuck", the name of the [[chief mate]] in the book ''[[Moby-Dick]].''<ref name="gotitsname">{{cite news | url=https://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/06/29/how-starbucks-got-its-name/ | title=How Starbucks got its name – Seattle's Big Blog | first=Amy | last=Rolph | work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date=June 29, 2012 | access-date=April 19, 2021 | archive-date=April 19, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419035116/https://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/06/29/how-starbucks-got-its-name/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> Bowker said, "''Moby-Dick'' didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense''.''"<ref name="gotitsname" /><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-co-founder-talks-about-early-days-launching-redhook-and-seattle-weekly-too/ | title=Starbucks co-founder talks about early days, launching Redhook and Seattle Weekly, too | last=Allison | first=Melissa | work=[[The Seattle Times]] | date=March 9, 2008}}</ref>

The first Starbucks store was located in Seattle, at 2000 Western Avenue, from 1971 to 1976. The café was later moved to 1912 Pike Place.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_h-MvFHAMOIC&pg=PA135 | title=Pacific Northwest. | last1=Brewer | first1=Stephen | last2=Brissenden | first2=Constance | last3=Carmin | first3=Anita | publisher=[[DK (publisher)|Dorling Kindersley]] | year=2012 | isbn=9781405370813 | location=[[London]] | pages=135– | oclc=795852938}}</ref> During this time, Starbucks stores sold just coffee beans and not drinks.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.historylink.org/File/20292 | title=Starbucks: The Early Years | first=Sheila | last=Farr | publisher=[[HistoryLink]] | date=February 15, 2017}}</ref> In its first two years of operation, Starbucks purchased green coffee beans from [[Peet's Coffee & Tea]]. In 1973, Alfred Peet stopped supplying Starbucks and helped train their new Roastmaster, Jim Reynolds.<ref name="peets.com">{{cite web |title=The History of Peet's Coffee {{!}} Peet's Coffee |url=https://www.peets.com/blogs/peets/the-history-of-peets-coffee |access-date=December 1, 2021 |website=www.peets.com |language=en}}</ref>