Starbucks President Jim Alling '83 Talks of Company's Move to Drive-Through Windows
January 11, 2006

The article, by Steven Gray, notes, "Starbucks Corp. is building hundreds of new Starbucks cafes this year with drive-through windows, a fast-food industry innovation pioneered by McDonald's Corp. decades ago... Starbucks is set to make the windows a fixture at more than half of the 700 company-owned stores it is slated to open in 2006 in Seattle, Chicago and other U.S. markets. Currently, out of 7,450 existing Starbucks outlets in the U.S., about 1,000 have drive-through windows. With so many markets already blanketed by Starbucks outlets, the company is eager for ways to wring out more growth. The average annual volume at Starbucks stores with a drive-through window is about $1.3 million, or about 30 percent higher than stores without."
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