SEATTLE, May 19 ― There is a small laboratory inside Starbucks’ headquarters called the ‘cupping room’ where 75 per cent of all Starbucks coffee will be tested before hitting stores. A group of seven ‘coffee-quality specialists’ taste up to 600 different coffees a day in a regimented ritual known as ‘cupping.’ Bloomberg’s Sam Grobart went to Seattle to meet master taster Leslie Wolford and get a look inside the secret lab. ― Bloomberg

A group of seven ‘coffee-quality specialists’ taste up to 600 different Starbucks coffees a day. ― File pic