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| Looking through my phone, I found these photos from August 2019 when Onions and I were invited to the Starbucks Headquarters in Seattle. |
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| Not a really big deal, just another corporate headquarters for a Seattle based company. Here with the original logo. |
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| BUT, when you get invited by high school friend Heidi who has worked for the company for many years in the communications department and you get a badge that opens up the elevator to the upper floors, then, yes, it's time to go see the belly of the beast! |
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| Still in the lobby, this wall shows a timeline of the the number of Starbucks that are opened in a year (above) and major world events (below). |
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| Our badges!!! |
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| Now we are upstairs, I don't think I'm supposed to be taking photos, but I snuck a couple. Here's the area where they do interior design for the store. |
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| The ubiquitous office break room. Of course there is Starbucks coffee served. |
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| A roasting machine. I guess that makes sense. |
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| Here in a common space on one of the upper floors, they are packing beans for some kind of promotion. |
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| Right in the middle of HQ is a tasting room. |
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| Heidi's desk in Corporate Communications. Her desk is a mere 50 feet from Howard's. Yes, that Howard. |
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| The view into downtown Seattle from the corporate conference room (9th floor!) |
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| After our tour, down to the Starbucks public cafeteria. |
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| The food? Italian based of course. Here Heidi is showing her Starbucks ID! |
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| I had to take this photo to show and document that the front of house staff was all young and white but the behind the counter staff was predominantly POC. |
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| LUNCH! Thanks for a great tour, Heidi. |
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