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Waxman Staff Writer Apr 22, 2015 9:26 PM UTC  An employee, right, hands a customer personalised cardboard coffee cups inside a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop in London, U.K., on Monday, June 9, 2014\. U.K. services companies' confidence rose to a record this quarter, indicating continued expansion in the largest part of the economy, the Confederation of British Industry said. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images An employee, right, hands a customer personalised cardboard coffee cups inside a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop in London, U.K., on Monday, June 9, 2014\. U.K. services companies' confidence rose to a record this quarter, indicating continued expansion in the largest part of the economy, the Confederation of British Industry said. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images Jason Alden/Bloomberg  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 22, 2015 9:26 PM UTC Grumpy web users in need of a caffeine fix love to post photos of Starbucks cups that have their names misspelled. The goofs happen to [celebrities](http://www.m-magazine.com/posts/ashley-argota-s-name-gets-spelled-wrong-at-starbucks-56661), and nearly 10 million people have watched parodies of the errors on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPbrlNsMTg4). Now, with this new [“What’s My Starbucks Name?”](http://www.whatsmystarbucksname.com/) generator, fans of the meme can enter a name and a photo of a coffee cup with a totally different name will appear. _Bob’s Burgers_ writer [Justin Hook](https://twitter.com/justinhook/status/590556090099699714) created the app using cup photos from the “Starbucks Name Fail” and “Starbucks Spelling” Tumblrs. ### Go Inside Starbucks' Wild New 'Willy Wonka Factory of Coffee'  On Dec. 5, founder Howard Schultz debuted part of his new strategy for Starbucks: his first flagship “Roastery,” a 15,000 square foot space that is both a coffee roasting facility, and a consumer retail outlet. The place is to coffee what FAO Schwartz is to toys or Dover Street Market is to fashion—retail theatre. Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME ## Transcript [00:01] >>This is Glen Levy with time. com. Recently on the [00:04] sites, our office coffee aficionado, James Poniewozik, [00:08] sampled Starbucks' new Pike Place Roast. But as the [00:11] saying doesn't exactly go: " Anything New York can do, [00:14] London can do ." Well, more expensively. Want proof? [00:18] How about the Caffé Raro Beans sold at the Peter [00:20] Jones Department Store in Chelsea. [00:22] >>It [00:24] is what we believe is the rarest coffee, able to be [00:28] available worldwide. It's a blend [00:30] >>of two of the most exclusive coffee beans and [00:34] Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kopi Luwak bean [00:38] found in Indonesia. A cup is £ 50 and this reflects [00:42] how much it actually does cost for us to get hold of the [00:46] beans. Every £ 50 from each cup sold goes directly to [00:50] Macmillan Cancer Support and so our customers don't [00:54] seem to found, sort of the price, a problem. They say [00:57] it's amazingly smooth, absolutely no bitterness [01:01] >>and really earthy. Seems to be sort of a recurring [01:04] theme. I understand we've sold, I think it's [01:07] approaching 40 now. I don't know if Starbucks have [01:10] faced by this, I mean, I think it probably is, sort [01:15] of, a one of a missed occasion but you know, we [01:17] decide to roll it out again and who knows, it may well [01:19] become a nationwide trend. [01:21] >>Crucially then, what does it actually taste like? It's [01:24] certainly the smoothest cup of coffee I've ever drunk. [01:27] But frankly, for £ 50 I'd be expecting the greatest taste [01:30] sensation known to man which is going leave me [01:32] feeling elated for the rest of the year. What we're left [01:35] with-- and I'm not making this up-- is the world's [01:37] most expensive coffee bean which gets digested by a [01:40] Palm cat resulting in a process that gives this espresso [01:44] its unique flavor. I don't think it's likely to give [01:47] Starbucks too much cause for concern. 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