After Starbucks Coffee recently announced it was closing 600 stores, the questions started almost immediately -- for Howard Schultz, the man who turned the Seattle company into a coffee behemoth, and for Dale Roberts, the proprietor of the Java Shack, a tiny coffeehouse in Arlington. -
Small Coffee Shops Turn the Tables
After Starbucks Coffee recently announced it was closing 600 stores, the questions started almost immediately -- for Howard Schultz, the man who turned the Seattle company into a coffee behemoth, and for Dale Roberts, the proprietor of the Java Shack, a tiny coffeehouse in Arlington.-
By Michael S. Rosenwald