An unremarkable strip mall location in Scottsdale
John “Winter” Smith has a mission: to visit every Starbucks in the world. Because he’s a huge fan of their coffee? Nope. “It doesn’t taste good at all—I’m not enjoying drinking it.”
He’s doing quite well; in seven years, he’s been to almost 90% of the nearly 5,000 stores worldwide. Starbucks is opening new ones at the rate of about 10 per week, but he’s going faster than that. Will he catch up, or will he lose his mind first?