# Starbucks Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-trivia/782921 "2017-03-24T16:30:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-trivia/782921/1 "2017-03-24T16:30:21Z")
I’ll start with this one: There is a Starbucks in the Langley, Virginia CIA compound, [but the baristas are not allowed to put names on the cups-even fake names are banned. They don’t even have customer rewards cards because of the information gathering it entails.](https://consumerist.com/2014/09/29/there-are-no-names-on-the-cups-at-the-cias-starbucks-because-its-the-cias-starbucks/) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-trivia/782921/2 "2017-03-24T17:06:49Z")
At least two Starbucks are mobile. There is one on the cruise ship _Allure of the Seas_, which has a regular route between Ft. Lauderdale, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cozumel. Another one is on a train in Switzerland, travelling between Geneva Airport and St. Gallen. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-trivia/782921/3 "2017-03-24T17:38:07Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’ll start with this one: There is a Starbucks in the Langley, Virginia CIA compound, [but the baristas are not allowed to put names on the cups-even fake names are banned. They don’t even have customer rewards cards because of the information gathering it entails.](https://consumerist.com/2014/09/29/there-are-no-names-on-the-cups-at-the-cias-starbucks-because-its-the-cias-starbucks/) And the stand is made from pure irony. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-trivia/782921/4 "2017-03-24T17:50:05Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > At least two Starbucks are mobile. There is one on the cruise ship _Allure of the Seas_, which has a regular route between Ft. Lauderdale, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cozumel. Another one is on a train in Switzerland, travelling between Geneva Airport and St. Gallen. I am pretty sure there was on in a mega-cruiser out of LA, down the Mexican coast run. It was probably the least objectionable thing in that floating shopping mall. My trivia is that I am fortunate to live in an SB-free zone - over ten miles to the closest and thirteen to a second in another direction. I can go almost forty miles in any other direction before seeing that smug logo. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-trivia/782921/5 "2017-03-27T14:40:21Z")
The first Starbucks sold ground beans only-no hot coffee, and it was almost called “Pequod’s”(another _Moby Dick_ reference). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-trivia/782921/6 "2017-03-28T06:51:12Z")
One of them was played by Dirk Benedict, and the other by Katee Sackhoff.