There’s a cute, new (opened January 10, 2014) pre-fab design Starbucks in Orange, California. It’s on the corner of Tustin Avenue and Chapman Boulevard. The address is 1630 East Chapman Blvd., and the phone number is 714 – 289 – 3682. This is one of a few stores in the company that are made of pre-fab construction though not made from shipping containers. This blog article here has pictures of the pre-fab construction drive thru in Tacoma, Washington.
The store manager, Lisa, is a ten-year Starbucks partner. She is terrific. Be sure to say hello to her when you drop by! She has such incredible passion for all things Starbucks. I had a couple of minutes to talk to her and told me that she started her career as a barista at the Euclid and Crescent Starbucks (Anaheim) and two weeks into it, she knew that “this was it.” One day, as a customer was leaving, he yelled out to her “thank you.” As a two-week partner she wondered, “What did I do? I was just doing my job.” And she saw how the customer’s day had been brightened by a trip to Starbucks, and she was part of that experience. Lisa said she knew then she was going to make Starbucks a career. Her ten year anniversary was March 12, 2014. Congratulations Lisa!
Lisa’s favorite coffee is Espresso Roast. She says she loves it as a drip or as a shot (I’m in agreement – Espresso Roast makes a fine drip coffee). And her favorite beverage is an iced Venti six shot Americano.
She posed for a photo in front of the walk-up window at her Starbucks. It’s kind of a funny picture. If you look very closely, you can see through the window the face of a barista inside who has a look on his face like, “What’s going on out there?”
I like the cute little wood fence that runs around the perimeter of the store. And I like that there’s a patio seating area. She says her partners will honor the refill policy for patio guests.
I know I mentioned the location already, but once again, this is Starbucks store number 20402, 1630 East Chapman Boulevard, in Orange, California.
Hope you get the chance to visit this store!
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Melody nice to open my emails this morning to this post. Nice pic. Almost like looking for Waldo! Have to enlarge the pic to see the partner in the window. I really wish there were more of these SB locations around here.
@purple1 – Very nice to see your comment this morning! I know that I have an enormous amount of lurkers, but you’re not one of them. I hope that some of the lurkers who left a comment on the giveaway article will come comment more places.
LOL – And the photo with the store manager is a bit like “Where’s Waldo?”
Great post to start my day.
It is a smart move by Starbucks to use the prefab concept. People do not realize that the money spigot starts running for Starbucks the moment they sign the contract for the land. The name of the game in any business is to get the cash flow going as soon as possible. By using prefab the time to get the doors open is substantially decreased.
I really like the picture of the work area. Too often there is barely space for one person to pass. Here you can have people working on both sides with plenty of room for two-way traffic down the middle.
Glad to here that the store manager, Lisa, likes real coffee. Not to belittle all the great varietals, blends, and reserves, I have found that the best baristas have been the ones who like the basic dark roasts. That means they know how to pay attention to brew and extraction times.
Lisa is an outstanding manager. Glad to see her recognized on this site.
Melody! Come see me at my new store on your way home 3011 w Benjamin holt dr Stockton! We just opened in march and very similar to this location! We would live to have you!! 🙂
Love these types of stores, I just think the photo you took of Lisa is so funny because the guy in the background , he looks amused.
Great blog post thanks,
-George
Great blog post! I really hope they put up some of these pre fab stores here in Indiana.