TAGBILARAN, Philippines — A new Starbucks branch opened Thursday morning at 685 C.P. Garcia Avenue in Tagbilaran City, expanding the American coffee chain’s footprint in the Bohol capital.
The store, which opened at 7 a.m., is operated by Rustan Coffee Corporation, the exclusive Philippine licensee of Starbucks Coffee International since 1997. The company operates more than 600 Starbucks locations across the country.
Rustan Coffee said the new outlet aims to offer Bol-anons a comfortable “third place” — the company’s term for a social space between home and work — while contributing to the city’s growing café culture.
Founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Starbucks began as a coffee bean wholesaler before expanding into the coffeehouse concept its brand is known for today. The chain now operates nearly 41,000 cafes in more than 80 countries and is the world’s largest coffeehouse chain, with about half its locations run by licensees.
Tagbilaran, the capital and only city of Bohol province, has seen increased commercial development in recent years as tourism recovery following the 2013 earthquake has driven economic activity in the province.
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