Get your coffee fix
Permalink | August 11th, 2005
A man in Texas woke up inspired obsessed one morning and decided that he was going to visit every single corporate-owned Starbucks on the face of the planet. This journey started in 1997, and 8 years later he has visited an astonishing 4,988 Starbucks (4,775 in North America, and 213 in other parts of the world). According to the Seattle based company’s website, there are a total of 5,715 corporate-owned Starbucks in the world, leaving him with a mere 727 stores to go. But seeing as how Starbucks multiply faster than rabbits on viagra, he might be going ad infinitum.
He has, however, garnered the attention of an amateur film-maker who is currently making a documentary and is hoping to release the film, dubbed “Starbucking,” at Sundance.
If Sundance doesn’t accept the film, Tangeman said, he will submit it to other festivals.
“There’s a million film festivals, so hopefully we’ll find someone who will take it,” he said.
Winter, who earns money to keep his quest going by doing computer programming work, and currently lives in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Silver Spring, Md., said he and Tangeman will split whatever profits the movie may make.
Winter hopes the movie does well. One basic reason for his hopes is that it could give him more money to continue his quest.
And some of the perks of fame that might come if the film is successful, like maybe meeting Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johansson, wouldn’t be too bad either, Winter said.
“On a superficial level,” Winter said, “celebrity has its benefits.”
So now the real truth comes out…
[via AP]
