California coffee chain moves into Starbuck's turf

Saturday, February 15, 2003

By HELEN JUNG
AP Business Writer

SEATTLE -- Forget the Starbucks on the corner. Ignore the coffeehouse across the street and the espresso drive-through a block away.

Seattle needs another coffee chain. Really.

At least that's the story from California-based Peet's Coffee & Tea, which will open its first Seattle coffeehouse in June in the Fremont neighborhood -- a nervy move into the home turf of resident caffeine king Starbucks Coffee Co.

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