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Originally posted by Mobycat:
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Originally posted by PDXterra:
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1) Starbucks doesn't offer franchises, they're all corporately-controlled.
That's only partially true.

There is a Starbucks in every Safeway out here - they are NOT run by Starbucks. They are not franchises, but are *licensed* by Starbucks.

(I know someone who is so into Starbucks, that they will not bother with these ones, as they are not "real" Starbucks.)[/b]
Hmm...I did not know that. I wonder what the differences are between "franchise" and "licensed by" because they sound a lot alike to me. I just knew they didn't do the franchise thing in the same fashion that, say, McDonald's does.