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Confidence votes 421. Baldwin, Siegel, and Bowker chose the name Starbucks in honor of Starbuck, the coffee-loving first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick (so company legend has it), and because they thought the name evoked the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders.
Starbucks begins providing coffee. to fine restaurants and espresso bars. 1983 Howard travels to Italy, where heâs impressed with the. popularity of espresso bars in Milan. He sees the potential to. develop a similar coffeehouse culture in Seattle. 1984 Howard convinces the founders of Starbucks to test the. coffeehouse concept in downtown Seattle, where the first. StarbucksÂ® CaffÃ¨ Latte is served.This successful experiment is. the genesis for a company that Schultz founds in 1985. 1985 Howard founds Il Giornale, offering brewed coffee and. espresso beverages made from StarbucksÂ® coffee beans.