#Starbucks origin movie#

In the comedy movie, a scene involves the guitarist (Guest) and a friend discussing an amp that goes up to 11. And it wasn’t done just because Elon Musk wanted to push boundaries but as a tribute to the mockumentary 'This Is Spinal Tap' - starring actor-director Christopher Guest. The Tesla Model S has a feature where the volume control cranks up to 11. Since 2007, NASA thought it would be fun to add a twist to their crew posters and has been making expedition artworks featuring their crew in pop culture favourites such as 'Star Wars' (but, of course) and 'Reservoir Dogs'. It was here where Starbucks opened its first store, offering fresh-roasted coffee beans, tea and spices from around the world for our customers to take home.

#Starbucks origin movie#

The seemingly straight shooting crew often promote their upcoming missions like an upcoming movie by photoshopping themselves into posters. Our story begins in 1971 along the cobblestone streets of Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. STARBUCKS Single-Origin Colombia by NESPRESSO Medium Roast Coffee available to buy online at. So much so that they’ve forgone the normal designations and instead, call themselves the fleet commander, jedi master of structures and storm troopers in a nod to the hit franchise.įor NASA, on occasion, the ‘beyond’ means a movie poster. And though their backgrounds may be diverse, their love for 'Star Wars' is unanimous. The team that came together in 2010 with the aim of winning the Google Lunar X Prize competition announced in 2007 has a number of people from fields such as science, tech and media. But when the brand consultant, who also designed the chain’s logo, produced an old 1800s map, the name of a mining town, Starbos, which features in the book, stood out which led the brand consultant to think of the first mate on the Pequod - Starbuck.

The founders wanted to name the place after Captain Ahab's first mate Starbuck.

The coffee chain was originally going to be called either Cargo House or Pequod after Captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick. When the first Starbucks opened in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971, it didn't sell coffee drinks, just beans.

Starbucks got its name from another classic - the book Moby Dick.