Hi, my name is Cory and I’m one of the Idea Partners for Starbucks. I work in store development, the team of people that find great places to open stores, and then design, build and maintain them. I’ve been reading the posts as they come in, and wasn’t surprised to see that there is a lot of passion about seating in our stores . There’s also wide variety in the preferences people have about what they sit on while they’re visiting us. Despite the impressions some of you have about the shrinking size of our stores, I can vouch for the fact that our average store size has been steadily increasing over the past 15 years, and the stores we opened last year hit an all …
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