They have been around for 40 years??
they were started and formed by a very different set of owners.
It was a very wonderful place where you could get the best coffee beans from all over the world.
Schultz bought the company in 81 or 82? and turned it in a different and more profitable direction.
in the beginning he and Tom O’Keefe of Tully’s battled over locations and stores, Tom was a nice guy and he got stomped on by Schultz
They were just a local chain in Seattle for many years. If I recall correctly, they expanded greatly in the 1990s and early 2000s, both across America and internationally.