Coffee chain is now co-owned by a Russian restaurateur and popular rapper, but has a familiar look and feel
Crowds in Moscow welcomed a new coffee chain that replaced Starbucks after the Seattle-based company pulled out of Russia over the war in Ukraine. Stars Coffee said it took one month to rebrand and create a new identity. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov/ShutterstockStarbucks Corp.’s former flagship store in Moscow reopened under new ownership but with similar branding, months after the Seattle-based coffee giant pulled out of Russia.
On Friday, Russians lined up for drinks at Stars Coffee, operating under a new logo similar to Starbucks’s. Instead of Starbucks’s siren with a star-topped crown, the new Russian chain’s logo sports a woman wearing a star-emblazoned kokoshnik, a traditional Russian headdress. On its website, which went live Thursday, Stars Coffee posted, “Bucks left. Stars have stayed.”
Starbucks needs to sue them for copyright infringement.
It meant to be Tsars Coffee, Puttin fonts wrong
awesome
Why is the logo wearing a hat that looks like the poop emoji? 💩
FAIL! 😂 Just like the 'Russian McDonalds' Anyone familiar with franchises knows it's not easy to replace them. Even if they copy everything it's still not the same because of the way the products, supplies & services operate together. Economy of scale. Quality will drop quickly.
Welcome to Stars coffee and enjoy our Kvass 😃
Should have gone with Tsarbucks.
McDowell’s!
Most appropriate as “Red Star Kofi”
More like Czar’s Coffee.
looks funny
'Totally different brand' - almost identical logo. Yeah I'm sure it's a total coincidence bro
Coffee by any other name is still coffee.
It's a huge success, handed to them on a plate, at the expense of Western companies. Biden crossed Putin's red line on Nov.10 for what still remains unclear, as he had no intention of supporting Ukraine directly.
Starbucks coffee is like you drink cow urine - the coffee in Russia is not the best but far superior to the US junk urine drink type with tones of sugar - Russia's average lifetime will expand as all the junk US food gets away
starski coffinski
Trademark infringement on top of war crimes.
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There was a chance for tsarbucks but they missed it
Russia so wants to be like the West
Хуй вам а не цивілізацію! 🤣 Назад в совок повним ходом 🤦♂️ russiaisateroriststate is like North Korea but we all can watch how they're fighting 'the west' ffs ...
0 days since russia hasn’t stolen anything. Is it still smth new?
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We sure showed them.
Now they will make money for oligarchs
Starbucks makes its money by controlling the entire chain, farm to cup. It is going to be hard to emulate that with sanctions.
Complete with a mural of Homelander I guess?
This is like watching a person with an obviously fake rolex trying to convince someone that it's real!
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They don't survive long.
Next venture in Russia: 'The Gape' clothing line. With pricey extra E in the title. Brooklyn99
Should have branded it as Putin's Piss
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I'm surprised they didn't call it Tsars Coffee.
Yes, we are Stars Coffee, and you will be assigned a time to buy, a quota, and required positive reviews, Comrade
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A huge loss to Western business’s - not just Starbucks. Biden crossed Putin’s red line on Nov.10 with no plan to help Ukraine directly. There are no positives - only negatives.
Booo. Shuda name it: Starubles.
Coffee for the orcs.
Sounds about right...starbucks left and the new owners rebranded the business with similar logos like the thieves that they are, and as usual the customers are totally fooled because theyve been brainwashed
Im sure Starbucks will have something to say about that !! Talk about front
They had to change the name as thanks to sanctions Russia doesn't have any bucks any longer.
McDonald's and now this. Russia is a laughing stock. It can't bare to think of its own ideas and simply think by changing the logo and name slightly they will be a success. WRONG!
Wish they had of called it Tsarbucks
Like the Russian Military, it's another pound shop cardboard copy of something from modern civilised nations
will be great if their tumbler going down to halfprice also..
You know…uh…we make coffee with…uh…stars…uh…those Cargo 200 from Ukraine
They plagiarized the logo.
Its not Rocket Science.
It’s called SHIT
There’s a resemblance.
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