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
Peet’s Coffee was another place supposed to be like the original Starbucks. They may still be.