It happens a million times every week – a customer receives a drink from a Starbucks barista – but each interaction is unique.
It’s just a moment in time – a random hand reaching across the counter to offer a drink to another outstretched hand.
But it’s a connection.
We make sure that everything we do honors that connection – from our commitment to the highest quality coffee in the world to the way we encourage customers and communities to do business responsibly.
Since the beginning, when we opened our first coffee shop forty years ago, we’ve tried to make a little bit better every place we’ve been and everything we’ve touched.

