Starbucks opens first coffee shop in Pipera neighborhood in Bucharest

Starbucks will next week open its first coffee shop in the Pipera area of Bucharest, within the Novo Park compound in the area. The coffee shop, which will be opened on Tuesday, September 30, will cover 200 sqm, and is Starbucks’ eights unit in Bucharest. Three more coffee shops exist elsewhere in Romania, in Constanta, Cluj – Napoca and Timisoara. and the chain plans to reach 18 locations in the country by end-2014. The new unit in Novo Park is located at the ground floor of the D building, with access from the Dimitrie Pompeiu boulevard and from the Fabrica de Glucoză street. editor@romania-insider.com