Starbucks gets a cool reception from Italians


Some Italians are less than enthusiastic about Starbucks opening its first store in Milan.

Founder Howard Schultz has promised Starbucks will enter the country in September “with great humility and respect,” Eater reports. However, a Facebook poll by Local Italy asked readers if they’d welcome Starbucks and 87 percent emphatically answered “no.”

It was during a trip to Milan more than three decades ago that Schultz was inspired to turn the coffeehouse chain into a space that served…

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