The Curtain Falls: Starbucks Opens First Store In Russia

The New York Times:

With the hiss of an espresso machine and a note in Russian explaining the meaning of tall, grande and venti, Starbucks opened its first coffee shop in Russia today in a mall outside of Moscow.

The opening sealed a victory for the company in a fight with a Russian trademark squatter who had barred Starbucks from coming to Russia for more than three years, just as a coffeehouse culture burst onto the scene here. Starbucks refused to pay the squatter and eventually prevailed in court.

Read the whole story: The New York Times

Comments

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

02:50 AM on 09/07/2007

Factoid Baby, I'm getting real worried for you. Remember what Emma Goldmann said - how she didn't want to be in the revolution if she couldn't dance. Don't let a crazy world scare you. That's the first rule bubba. You got to keep on pushin' straight ahead. Get yourself a sweet young thing to roll in the sack with - affirm life. Laugh at the devil and flip him the bird. Eat fatty food, drink some tequila, swim in a rip tide, get fired, get out on the highway, get stoned, be like the sun at midday. Drink that good strong coffee and eat some cheesecake. Smoke some opium or hashesh. You will sleep like a baby.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

02:57 AM on 09/07/2007

lol. what is this thread about again? Starbucks?

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

03:59 AM on 09/07/2007

Free Association.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

01:21 AM on 09/07/2007

Peet's in Berkeley near the corner of Shattuck and Cedar was where I first learned the pleasure of a fine Sumatra or a strong Viennese coffee. But as I progress through the day, I am content enough for a common coffee with some one percent milk. It is sufficient and I do not feel the need of the latest and greatest thing. To constantly require the best is to be unfit to enjoy what is readily available. "Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness." Pablo Picasso

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

02:03 AM on 09/07/2007

Fucking hell, I can't even drink coffe any more, I barely manage to keep from a complete nervous breakdown as it is without caffeine.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

02:04 AM on 09/07/2007

... that is, with all the crazy shit that's going on in the world of sci-fi weaponry.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

11:44 PM on 09/06/2007

Starbucks buys coffee from China and sells it to Russia.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/09/06/starbucks-made-in-china.aspx
Starbucks: Made in China?

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Starbucks tries to make Russians fat.
http://www.google.com/search?q=starbucks+obesity

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Starbucks sucks, a simple cup of black coffee is always served too hot and tastes burnt.

Peet's -- now that's the stuff.

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"The Third World is Tasty."

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:33 PM on 09/06/2007

So Starbucks finally got into Russia. I'll bet a nice hot mocha will go down well on a Russian winter night. Now if only I could get those wonderful oily cabbage peroskis in my town, like the ones I used to get at 4th and Clement in San Francisco. That would be glastnost for all.