Then make up a user name and a password, retype the password and put in your birth date (must be older than the age of 13) and agree to the terms. After you click on the button that says Join than go to your email inbox to activate your account and sign in with your username and password and you are good to go.
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 kicked off 2015 with a jolt of caffeine, thanks to a new drink unveiled Tuesday morning. We wouldn't have it any other way, of course, but we feel an explainer is in order. The new drink is called a Flat White, and it's a kind of espresso beverage that originated in Australia in the early 1980s.