Saif Abdulqader
Why Starbucks?
Starbucks is known for its specialty coffee. Through its various value-added services, the company doesn’t only sell regular coffee but a unique taste. It differentiates coffee-drinking experience to its in-store customers and meets their implicit demand, which, in turn, helps it in surviving in the highly competitive foodservice retail space. Starbucks have done great achievements, through which customers were provided affordable price of coffee, with an excellent quality and friendly environment. They intended to prove for the customer that their main goal is customer’s satisfaction that has been ethically and responsibly achieved. Starbucks, in their annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report, notes “customers
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Starbucks offers free, instant and unlimited Wi-Fi connectivity at all its company-owned stores across the world. The customers, who come for a drink or a snack, are encouraged to spend more time inside the store through free access to internet and the Starbucks Digital. Starbucks has lots of supportive projects in which they support various causes that makes people want to purchase from them more and more. For example, the article Starbucks corporation mentions in 2015, the company started a pilot project, ‘Green Apron Delivery’ at Empire State Building in New York. This new service allows people working in the Empire State Building to order a selected set of food and beverages through Starbucks’ website, which will be delivered within couple of minutes from the time order was placed. According to Dr. M. Sanjayan, Executive Vice President, Senior Scientist, Conservation International “When we started working with Starbucks in 1998, they certified 30 or 40 million pounds of coffee. Today, almost 400 million pounds–or approximately 96% of Starbucks purchases–are grown sustainably, in a way that protects nature and improves farmers’ livelihoods. That’s extraordinary, and it is fundamentally changing the industry.” (Starbucks Cooperation,2017). This is what made them socially responsible by keeping a balance between quality, price, and
My name is Ana Nicole Paz and I am a 16-year-old high school student. I read your memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life and can honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed the read. Even after losing your job, house, marriage, money, and learning you had a brain tumor, I loved the fact that you took an otherwise negative situation and turned it into a positive life experience that would make you the happiest man you could have ever dreamed to be by accepting a job at Starbucks. I also appreciated that you did not hide any of your thoughts in your memoir, but were rather very straightforward, even with the prejudices you held, and were quick to learn that they were unwarranted to move forward from such ignorance.
Physical therapist help treat patients who have an injury or illness that prevents them from moving around to their full potential. The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that “Physical therapists provide care to people of all ages who have functional problems resulting from back and neck injuries; sprains, strains, and fractures; arthritis; amputations; neurological disorders, such as stroke or cerebral palsy; injuries related to work and sports; and other conditions.” (Physical
If you had the chance to enjoy the Starbucks experience, then you will appreciate their mission statement, which is , According to starbucks.com, it states, that it is “To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time”.
Physical therapy is the most exciting healthcare profession. Being able to wake up every morning to help other people who have problems with their body is amazing. From joints to muscles, spinal cord, heart disease, lower back pain, head injuries, arthritis, fractures, and many other disabling conditions a physical therapist will be by your side one hundred percent. The job of a physical therapist is to evaluate your problem or difficulties. Once the evaluation is completed the therapist provides the patient an assessment test. This test usually checks for muscle strength, joint motion, flexibility, balance, and coordination. They also check for any neurological problems and analyze your movement and range of motion. Next, the physical therapist
Physical therapists are “highly-educated,licensed health care professionals ” (“APTA”). Even though physical therapy is a highly visible career, most people do not know what a physical therapist ,or pt for short, is or what they do . A pt does many things like helping “patients reduce pain,improve or restore mobility and even reducing the need for long-term prescriptions and their side effects”(“APTA”). They do this by setting up goals or care plans made of focused exercise for each individual. The exercises or games help with restoring range of movement, building strength and improving
A physical therapist is a person who is a licensed educated professional in the health field whose main job is to lower pain level and helps redeem mobility hoping to reduce chances of surgery and being on long-term medication With becoming a physical therapist, a person can have a comfortable lifestyle. The salary usually is about $80,000 a year depending on how much experience, location of job, position, and education (American Physical Therapy Association). Usually, lower paid physical therapist get about $55,00 yearly and top paid make more than $112,00 a year. The job out look for physical therapist looks promising. Physical therapists are expected to grow 36% between in 2012 to 2012, which is faster then the average occupations. The numbers of physical therapist in 2012 were 204,200 and there are excepted to jump to 277,700 in 2022. With my generation becoming more active and more competitive in sports, physical therapy services are going to be needed more often. New research is growing for chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity which physical therapist will have to help with mobility issues from these diseases. New medical technology and research is being discovered to help with trauma victims and birth defeats. This allows a increase in rehabilitation care where physical therapists will be highly needed (A Bureau Of Labor Statistics).
The main stakeholders of Starbucks include the employees, customers, suppliers, investors, environment and the government (Thompson, 2015). Starbucks gives priority to their staff and ensures that they are happy with the provision of better working conditions, job security, and higher wages. Thus, the company builds the community, facilitating the growth of the employees. The company listens to their customers to improve the quality of service and products. For instance, Starbucks creates a warm and friendly relation with customers to satisfy their social responsibility with this stakeholder. By ensuring their suppliers are properly paid through their Coffee and Farmer Equity (CAFÉ) program, Starbucks fulfills their commitment to the suppliers through awareness. The company creates eco-conscious stores (Starbucks Corporation, 2016) and ensures to follow environmentally sound business practices using their foresight. Starbucks supports the emergency relief services. In 2005, they helped rebuild the Hurricane Katrina struck areas (Adams, 2007). Through their high financial performance in the industry, the company meets the interests of the investors proving the ability to conceptualize. Being an international company, Starbucks remains respectful of the people’s perspectives from the respective governments. Thus, they satisfy their commitment and
Starbucks is a company in which purchases and roasts high quality whole bean coffees and sells them along with fresh, rich-brewed, Italian style espresso beverages, a variety of pastries and confections, and coffee-related accessories and equipment (starbucks.com). During my environmental scan in which took place at the Starbucks on the corner of Fair and Newport across the street from vanguard, I noticed many things in which where never brought to my attention in prior stays and visits at Starbucks; such as the many social groups in which choose to have their meetings at Starbucks. Thus in this essay we will discuss things in which many people do not really notice when going to Starbucks.
Moving on, Starbucks Corporation proves that consumers can trust them because one of the main goals of the company is ethical service, their goal is to serve the customers with less than three minutes. The author said, “Starbucks’ “Just Say Yes” policy empowered partners to provide the best service possible, even if it required going beyond company rules” (Moon). Having this policy shows that the company tries to make customers satisfied. Also, it is ethical to have this policy because service is a key that makes the company successful. For example, if the customer spilled a drink, he/she can ask for another one. Additionally, if a customer does not have cash or credit and wants to pay by check, he/she will get a simple drink for
Visit Starbucks.com and you enter a virtual world of delight. Consumers can “sample” over 30 blends of coffee; find Starbucks coffeehouse locations, or learn about Starbucks Hear Music®, where customers can “burn personalized CDs, use listening stations to explore musical recommendations, enjoy a handcrafted Starbucks® beverage, or surf the web at (a) T-Mobile Wi-Fi enabled coffee bar” (Starbucks, 2008). Starbucks uses their website to communicate with their consumers about their company’s mission, social responsibility, business ethnic and compliance, diversity relations and press releases. Consumers can even read about the latest “rumor responses” that Starbucks wants to clarify about misinformation regarding the company. From the “click” of a button you can shop for Starbucks merchandise or check the balance on your Starbucks Card, the Starbucks website has got their customers needs in mind.
The Starbucks Corporation is built around an experience, the Starbucks experience. While the Starbucks experience is most notably associated with the way customers are treated, one could argue however, that the Starbucks experience transcends just the way customers are treated. The Starbucks experience is an all encompassing culture that revolves not just around customers but also to employees, or “partners” and suppliers. Burks (2009) notes that the company cares about the footprint it leaves, no matter where it does business; “the company is dedicated to making positive contributions to the communities where it doe...
Starbucks is an international coffee house and it was created in 1971 when they opened the first store in Seattle, Newcastle. Currently, they own 21,000 stores in 65 different countries of the world, and their passion for the great coffee, excellent service and community interaction exceeds cultures and languages (Starbucks, 2014). This company is the number 1 brand coffeehouse chain in the world due to the best roaster, marketer and seller of speciality coffee. Its main slogan: “Our mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighbourhood at a time” (Jurevicius, 2013).
With clear core values towards providing quality coffee, the best service, and atmosphere, Starbucks has enjoyed great success since it was founded 30 years ago. The company has being doing very well for last 11 years with 5% or more store sales increase, even with the rest economy still reeling from the post-9/11 recession. However recent research, conducted to Starbucks, have showed some concerns regarding company’s problem meeting customers’ expectations.
They can work in a variety of settings such as nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, physical therapist clinics, sports physical therapist centers, and even schools. It does take a certain type of person to work as a physical therapist. A person interested in this field mus...
When I saw this discussion, I couldn’t help but think of Starbucks and the impact they’ve made throughout their 45 years of establishment. I worked with them for about 7 years and saw how unique they were from your everyday coffee and latte spots. A retail company with thousands of coffee shops in the US as well as in other countries, this particular retailer has been able to catch the eyes of all ages as well as locations throughout the world. For example, today college students utilize Starbucks locations to study rather than go to a nearby library. Starbucks is also known for its best coffee and espresso drinks (Latte or Frappuccino) and with one of its delicious espresso 's any student or just a person stopping in to enjoy its lounge area where there is free Wi-Fi is awesome! Starbucks lifecycle has made a 360 turn around and been revamped twice to accommodated the growing market. Customizing their brand to fit more in with everything and not just one thing. By doing this they’ve created multiple product lifecycles within their own lifecycle as a corporate company.