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Pike Place Market? |
Travel Info how big is the market, what is there to do, and what type of stores do they have? Travel Tips I lived in Seattle for 10 years and love Pike Place market. There is a mix of Farmers Markets type stores, most selling fresh fish and fresh vegetables. In the mix there are shops that sell other food stuffs as well as arts & crafts sorts of items. For historical purposes, The Market is home to the first Starbucks in captivity. So, there is shopping, there is eating and there is people watching. The market is expansive in that is is about four blocks wide with several streets running perpendicular to it. There are also offshoots of the market with other shops. Source(s): I lived there Other Travel Tips For decades, Dunkin' Donuts (see entry under 1940s鈥擣ood and Drink in volume 3) franchises offered consumers the equivalent of a workingman's coffee break: a simple cup of coffee (see entry under 1990s鈥擳he Way We Lived in volume 5), accompanied by a sweet, tasty donut. Starbucks, on the other hand, is a franchise that caters to an upscale, sophisticated coffee drinker. It features not only coffee but also specialty drinks: latte (coffee mixed with steamed or hot milk), Frappuccino (a low-fat, blended beverage), and chai (a strong tea-based drink). Plenty of exotic coffee mixtures, along with assorted confections, pastries, mugs, and coffee-brewing equipment, can be found at Starbucks. Indeed, it is through the success of Starbucks that flavored, blended coffees, and such terms as latte and chai, have entered popular culture. Starbucks is a Seattle, Washington鈥揵ased company that has been in existence since 1971. Back then, it was a retail store, located in the city's Pike Place Market, which offered for sale coffee beans and coffee-making products. The firm's rise to international prominence did not begin for another fifteen years, until Howard Schultz (1954鈥?, a company executive who was intrigued by Italy's Espresso bars and coffeehouse culture, opened Il Giornale, modeled after the traditional Italian coffee-house. Schultz offered his customers various European-style coffees. Then in 1987, he bought out the company's two original founders, and began opening similar coffeehouses down the Pacific Coast, in Canada, in the Midwest and the Northeast, and, eventually in Europe and Asia. That first year, 17 Starbucks stores existed. By 1990, the number had risen to 84 stores. By 1995, the number of stores was 676; by 2000, it was over 3,300. Starbucks is the favored daily morning pitstop for white-collar urban commuters, as well as a suburban hangout. It is both a coffee house and a retail store selling coffee beans and brewing equipment. A typical Starbucks is artfully designed, with tables and chairs of various sizes, modern fixtures, and subdued lighting. Most look less like a traditional coffee shop and more like a cozy living space, where patrons are encouraged to get comfortable and enjoy coffee and conversation. In fact, it is the Starbucks "look" that is as equally responsible for attracting customers as the company's product. Starbucks coffee outlets became a popular place to drink coffee, hang out, or buy a variety of Starbucks coffee products. Photograph by Robert J. Huffman/Field Mark Publications. Reproduced by permission. By the late 1990s, Starbucks had become the number-one specialty coffee outlet in the United States, yet it has attracted as many critics as fans. Its detractors view Starbucks as a glorified fast-food (see entry under 1920s鈥擣ood and Drink in volume 2) outlet that caters to pretentious yuppies (see entry under 1980s鈥擳he Way We Lived in volume 5) who believe themselves to be sophisticated and cutting-edge as they order their Frappuccinos, but instead are being sold what amounts to fast food with fancy names. For More Information Schultz, Howard, and Dori Jones Yang. Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. New York: Hyperion, 1997. Starbucks Coffee. http://www.starbucks.com (accessed March 30, 2002). http://www.bookrags.com/history/popcultu... Seattle,Everything everybody,anytime. I've only been there once a few years ago. The market is a pretty good size, spanning several buildings. Make sure you wander beyone the main building. From what I can remember, there is the fish market (you have to stay long enough to watch them throw fish), a spice shop, several flower stores, fruit & veggie stands, and some eateries. |
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