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Answer 1

Torrefazione Italia

Torrefazione Italia is a former coffee roaster and café franchise, now a high-end brand of Starbucks coffee beans sold in grocery stores.

The first Torrefazione Italia café opened in Seattle, Washington in 1986. Espresso, coffee and baked goods were served in their cafés.

Umberto Bizzarri, Torrefazione's founder, teamed up with Stewart Brother's Coffee (later renamed Seattle's Best Coffee) founder, Jim Stewart, in the mid 1980s to create Seattle Coffee Holdings. This new company built a more modern roasterie on Vashon Island, Washington in 1995 and manufactured Seattle's Best Coffee and Torrefazione Italia Coffee. Seattle Coffee Holdings was purchased in 1998 by AFC Enterprises and renamed Seattle Coffee Company.

Torrefazione Italia expanded to other cities in North America, notably, Vancouver BC, the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, Boston, Chicago, and Dallas. Their coffees are also wholesaled to restaurants, hotels, bakeries and cafés.

Starbucks, another Seattle-based coffee company, purchased Torrefazione Italia along with Seattle's Best Coffee in 2003. Starbucks announced in 2005 that all 17 Torrefazione Italia cafés would be closed before the end of the year, and all of the San Francisco retail locations were closed on 27 October 2005. The coffee brand has been retained, however, and the coffee is available throughout the United States in coffee shops, hotels, resorts, offices, schools, hospitals, and elsewhere.

The Bizzarri family has since started another roaster and coffee chain, Caffè Umbria, which was started by third-generation roaster Emanuele Bizzarri, son of Umberto. Umbria has been roasting since 2002, and opened its first retail branch in Seattle in 2005, following Starbucks' decision to shutter the Torrefazione cafés. The first Umbria branch is in fact the first Torrefazione branch, at 320 Occidental Avenue in Pioneer Square. As of September 2015, there are three branches (two in Seattle and one in the Pearl District of Portland), while the wholesale coffee is sold more widely in cafés.

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Answer 2

Unicorn Frappuccino

The Unicorn Frappuccino was a drink created by Starbucks, introduced in 2017. It is made with ice, milk, pink powder, sour blue powder, crème Frappuccino syrup, mango syrup, and blue drizzle. In the 20-ounce size, it contains 500 calories, 18 grams of fat, 76 grams of sugar, and 55 milligrams of cholesterol. The drink was available only for a limited time, ending on April 23, 2017. Most stores sold out of the drink before April 23, leading to the creation of the unofficial Dragon Frappuccino.

The Unicorn Frappuccino was criticized by the Stratford Health Department for having too much sugar. This was due to the fact that the American Heart Association recommends that women consume 0.88 ounces (25 g) of sugar every day, and that men consume 1.3 ounces (36 g) of sugar every day.

Some saw the "vibrantly hued, flavor-shifting, color-changing" drink as part of a larger, social media-fueled embrace of the unicorn in 2017.

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Answer 3

Winter (Starbucks)

Winter (born March 20, 1972 as Rafael Antonio Lozano Jr.) is a freelance software programmer and consultant. Winter was previously known by the name John Winter Smith, but reported having legally changed his name to Winter in 2006. He is best known for his goal to visit every Starbucks location in the world, visiting as many as 29 locations in one day.

Winter was born in Chicago, Illinois as "Rafael Antonio Lozano Jr." on March 20, 1972, with his family later moving to Houston, Texas. He later attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with a double major in philosophy and computer science. Winter currently works as a freelance programmer.

In 1997 Winter began visiting various Starbucks locations, expressing the intent to visit every Starbucks location in the world. To minimize the amount of Starbucks locations, he eliminated any licensed stores to focus solely on those owned by the company. For each location to "count" he would drink "at least one four-ounce sample of caffeinated coffee from each store." He would also take a picture and post it on his website.

Winter has estimated that he has spent over $100,000 on the project, drinking an average 10 cups of coffee a day and once spending $1400 on a plane ticket to purchase a cup of coffee from a Starbucks in British Columbia before it closed. As of January 2011, Winter reported having visited 10,000 global locations, including over 8,000 in the United States.

In 2006 Winter was the focus of the documentary Starbucking.Starbucking was directed by Bill Tangeman and premiered at the 2006 Omaha Film Festival, with the DVD released in April 2007. Tangeman filmed about 40 hours of footage over a one-year period of Winter traveling to various Starbucks locations and interacting with other people, including a woman with whom he had been romantic. Critical reception for the film was mostly positive, with DVD Talk writing that although the film "doesn't offer much repeat viewing value", it was "highly watchable".

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