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20,000 STARBUCKS LATER
The King of Starbucking hits halfway mark
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Alyssa High | photography by Lauren Allen
In 1997, Plano was a very different city. Tens of thousands less residents. No Prestonwood Baptist Church Christmas extravaganzas. No Plano West Senior High School. A growing city, Plano was working to develop its identity as more than just a suburb. And while corporations like JCPenney were making their first pilgrimage to Plano’s corporate tax-break haven, then-Plano resident Winter, who’s eccentric personality lends itself to the mononymous name change, was starting a journey that has baffled, inspired and caffeinated many.
Winter is a computer programmer, and in 1997 he was living at a Plano apartment and regularly meeting up with friends at a neighborhood Starbucks. Much like Plano at the time, Starbucks was growing exponentially and working to develop an identity.
In 1997, you were unlikely to have a local coffee shop or a Starbucks on every corner. Third places, a concept that highlights the importance of a place for people to hang out aside from work or home, were harder to find. Teens used shopping malls. Church enrollment began a decline. Children had playgrounds. And childless adults were left without many places to just be.
Winter saw Starbucks as the solution to this problem and sought to visit as many as possible. At that time, there were only 1,400 stores, and the potential to visit everyone within a lifetime felt within reach.
“I got used to hanging out [at the nowdefunct location off of 75], and it immediately became my third place,” Winter says. “That is what made Starbucks an integral part of my life, and honestly, that is one of the reasons, in my opinion, that the company has been so successful that they were able to create a third place.”
First, he’d start visiting different stores in the Dallas area as they opened. His first official location after starting the project was in Casa Linda Plaza. Then, he started traveling to other cities and asking around until he found a location. Then, there was no website that held the information for every location.
“That is when I really became committed to Starbucks. It was not only the Starbucks, it was the road tripping, which I’d never really done to that extent, the travelling, seeing new places, and the challenge,” Winter says. “At that time, there was no website with a list of Starbucks, no Google Maps, so I was literally rolling into town, looking at the phonebook, trying to find a Starbucks, finding it on a paper map, going there and asking the baristas where another location was.”
Over 25 years later, Starbucks has almost 40,000 stores and is the second-largest fast food chain in the world (and not far behind McDonald’s at that.)
And while 40,000 stores might be an impossibility, Winter returned to Plano in late November to celebrate a big milestone — 20,000 locations visited.
Throughout the last 25 plus years, Winter has been taking pictures, notes and making connections at each location he visits. With tens of thousands of locations in the books, Starbucking, as he’s coined it, looks more like scouting for news stories of new locations opening and scheduling treks to hit more than one at a time, if possible.
He’s been to locations in every U.S. state and most territories, 11 Canadian provinces and territories, 16 Latin American/Caribbean countries, 24 Eurpean countries, nine Middle Eastern countries, 16 Asian/Pacific countries and three African countries.
The biggest challenges, he says, are funding and that locations seem to close or relocate just as much as new ones open.
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It’s more than just a love for a restaurant chain, Winter says. He visits just as many local places and notes that they often are closer to Starbucks’ original vision of a third place than modern-day Starbucks.
After the pandemic, many locations went to drive-thru only, which Winter considers antithetical to the chain’s original mission.
“By trying to maximize throughput, they are compromising the customer service and the customer experience,” Winter said in Business Insider. “And I think it’s come full circle and started to hurt the profits.”
What’s next for the Starbucking aficionado? He’s looking for a publisher for his book about the experience so far and visiting new locations as he can. You can follow his journey at starbuckseverywhere.net.
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H A TOIR STAY
PIERSTEN GAINES WAS NEVER A HAIRSTYLIST, BUT AFTER ENOUGH SALON HORROR STORIES, SHE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
“I actually went completely bald a couple of times,” Gaines says. “And it happened at salons, people just didn’t know how to care for my hair.”
Pressed Roots is “a haven for your hair.” Specializing in textured hair, the salon is all about 4C, 3A, fine loops and tight curls. The team learns, nourishes and presses tresses to perfection in a thoughtfully cultivated space.
Gaines thought she was alone in her experience until she got to college, where she found that a lot of women who have textured hair face the same struggles.
“About 50% of women who have textured hair experience hair loss at some point in their life,” Gaines says. “There’s just not a lot of education in cosmetology school around textured hair.”
In business school, Gaines learned about different blowout bar concepts and thought about how some people can walk into a salon and trust somebody to do their hair, because she had never had that.
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“I was learning a lot about people starting businesses, and the businesses that we see were created by people who saw an opportunity and saw that there was something missing,” she says. “They saw that there was a problem they wanted to solve.”
Pressed Roots offers blowouts for textured hair
story by Jillian Nachtigal photography by Lauren Allen
She started with pop-ups during business school to see if the concept was something that people would actually pay for and if she could bring it to life. The pop-ups lasted for about two years until she was able to open the first Pressed Roots location in Oak Cliff.
“Every time we did a pop-up, it was sold out,” Gaines says. “I was trying to test the model, but also raise money to open a store, and it was hard.”
Pressed Roots’ interior features a posh aesthetic with muted tones of pink and
brown. The decor is feminine, with rounded edges and natural materials.
Working at Pressed Roots comes with an abundance of training, because Gaines is determined to get it right.
“Training is a huge component of our business, and that’s what sets us apart,” Gaines says. “We do a very intense training for people. Before anyone serves a Pressed Roots guest, they go through an intensive boot camp at Pressed Roots where they learn everything about textured hair.”
From learning about different textures, what products to use, how much heat and how much tension to use, Pressed Roots employees can only get on the floor if they know everything there is to know about textured hair.
Employees also get continued education throughout their time at Pressed Roots.
The salon offers several different services including a signature silk blowout, a hydrating spa package, a mini press, a private press and an express smoothing treatment.
After initially opening a location in Oak Cliff, Pressed Roots has expanded to Arlington, Houston and Plano.
“We’re providing something that, the accessibility, the quality hasn’t existed before for this demographic, and it’s really exciting,” Gaines says. “Everybody needs this. This needs to be everywhere. That’s what drives me is we’re getting DMs or emails every day, like, we really need you in this city. We really need you in Denver. We really need you in Seattle. We really need you in New York.”
For Gaines, seeing the joy on her customer’s faces is the most rewarding part of her job.
“After you get your hair done, you just feel like a new person. You feel like you can take on the world. You have a new pep in your step,” Gaines says. “We opened the first location in 2020 and still, every time I see a customer after their appointment and they look in the mirror and they just look happy, that never gets old.”
Pressed Roots offers a welcoming environment with a clean aesthetic to make customers feel at home.
THE PRECISION OF SOUFFLÉ
Rise brings a taste of France to Plano
story by Alyssa High | photography by Kathy Tran
PRECISION SOUFFLÉ
Everything at Rise Soufflé is carefully curated. And if you take a walk around the restaurant, you’ll see why. Though located on the corner of a busy intersection, the restaurant’s meticulous attention to detail aims to transport guests out of the Plano suburbs and onto a French street.
The featured menu item — soufflé — requires an attention to detail most restaurants don’t touch. The silverware is handcollected, antique silver. The tables in an area dubbed the “birch forest” are re-creations of 150-year-old French library school desks (of which Dallas’ location has originals.)
“When I designed this place, we wanted to have a lot of little nooks and crannies and private seating, so it doesn’t just feel like a giant cafeteria room,” Rise Soufflé CEO Chris Florczak says.
In one nook, a wall made of beeswax blocks collected from local apiaries provides a warm glow to a birthday party. If you look close, little wings and bee legs can be found in the wax.
A tour of the restaurant walks you through an antique door, into a retail area where items like silverware, cookbooks and linens are sold, into the bar area, main dining room, “kitchen theater,” “birch forest,” and adjacent patio.
“One thing we preserve at all the stores is the patio, matching Parisian dining,” Florczak says.
“When you walk into Rise, you want to forget you’re in Plano, like you’re instantly transported to this European chateau. You’re consumed with the experience, not just the food.”
Details down to the lighting are thought out — no two lighting features are the same. They’re all purchased from chateaus in France, refurbished to fit wired lighting and fitted with lightbulbs around 2700 Kelvin, which Florczak says brings in a warm, yellow-amber light.
The Plano restaurant opened in March of last year, 16 years after the original location opened in Preston Hollow.
“Plano is such a lovely
Rise’s dessert soufflé lineup includes raspberry, chocolate, Grand Marnier, bread pudding, praline pecan and apricot.
neighborhood that travels already down to Dallas, so it seemed like the logical next [step]. If we’re going to go anywhere, Plano is right in the backyard and guests are already familiar with the concept,” Florczak says. “It was the right thing to do. After years of serving in Dallas, the kindest thing would be to come to you so you can save all that time on the tollway.”
Florczak joined the Rise team with a hotel & hospitality degree from Pennsylvania State University and over 15 years at Hillstone Restaurant Group, where he worked his way up from a general manager to a regional supervisor.
“I wasn’t really looking to leave until the folks from Rise were like, ‘Hey, we’re interested in growing the company and we heard your name come up,’” Florczak says. “It was so uniquely different than what I’d ever worked with in the past … this was like this really unique way to appreciate Old World dining with a menu that features some of the oldest recipes.”
Nearly 10 years after Florczak joined Rise’s executive team, he still can’t help but point out the significance of every detail. The napkins made on an antique loom in France. The 80-year-old silverware gathered from around the countryside. Handmade pottery from Waco.
“The reason I’m in the business is because I absolutely love it. I love food and I love serving people,” he says. “I mean look: All these people are having celebrations around us.”
The menu reflects the same intentionality as the interior design. Forget having to order a dessert soufflé the second you sit down — here it’s the main event and the restaurant beckons you to stick around a while. Soufflé is prepared by separating the egg yolks from the egg whites, mixing with
whatever ingredients, whipping the egg whites until they peak, then gently folding the two back in together. It’s both light and a sustainable protein, he says.
“Most restaurants won’t touch soufflés with a 10foot pole because they’re so challenging to make, time-oriented and very fickle in the oven,” Florczak says. “So a lot of chefs or restaurateurs would say you’re absolutely crazy to design an entire concept around one of the most challenging dishes to make because if something’s in the oven for 15 minutes and it falls, unlike making more french fries in two minutes, you’ve got to start from scratch again.”
The menu is constructed with portion sizes encouraging an appetizer, savory soufflé and dessert soufflé. Ten savory soufflés line the regular menu, with flavors like jambon and gruyère or truffle-infused mushroom.
However, Florczak says, non-soufflé entree options (like seared Ahi Tuna steak or a choice of two large salads) and non-soufflé dessert options (like crème brûlée or a fruit tart) are available for guests preferring to stick to one soufflé or for those in the group who love the vibes but aren’t in the mood for the dish.
There are four appetizers on the permanent menu, but the marshmallow soup is a fan favorite. Despite its name, there’s no actual marshmallows. Instead, it’s a carrot and tomato bisque with mini goat cheese soufflé “marshmallows,” rounding out the restaurant’s desire for detail inside and outside of the soufflé itself.
“It’s nourishment for the body and the soul,” Florczak says. “It’s a feel-good food.”
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THREE ORGANIZATIONS DOING GOOD IN PLANO WITH A FOCUS ON WELLNESS
story by Alyssa High
An immigration lawyer. A sales exec. An engineer. A pharmacist. A neuroscience major at University of Texas at Dallas. An energy solutions manager. Some are married, some have kids. Some recent college grads.
Together, dozens of men gather every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. to play football.
Furquan “Sunny” Azhar was 35 when he started DART Sports with some friends, who were also then in their 30s. Back then, the organization had “sort of a backyard feel” but the teams got younger and the organization became more structured as they grew.
DART is an acronym for Dallas Area Recreational Team, a play on Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The committee (leadership) team has worked to make the group more than a pickup football group. Since its inception in 2016, the group has added statistics, media, and game tapes through pictures, videos, GoPros and drone footage. Signups, live drafts, weekly highlights and group chats abound on WhatsApp.
“There started to be an influx of talent and people of all demographics, then we realized people had more interest than just football,” Azhar says.
They branched out to basketball, tennis, soccer and even Madden NFL, a football-based video game that has become a popular e-sport among sports fanatics.
“What got everyone out is not just what sports you’re playing, but the love and passion for it,” says Taha Usmani, who’s been playing for DART on and off since 2019. “[We’re] not really having an avenue to have an organized sports activity for most of us …. So it comes out to be more valuable to most people as that outlet for people to take their mind off things of their everyday lives and enjoy some of the things
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that you grew up playing.”
Several of the guys, lovingly referred to as “Goobers,” had their own group before joining DART. They played right after DART’s weekly Sunday pickup games, and saw the group grow while theirs dwindled.
“We joined forces, so to speak, and that helped [us] grow a little bit where a lot of our guys were kind of enjoying the DART structure,” Papiha Kashmiri says. “You have that whole community feel … It was welcoming. Everybody comes from all different walks of life, all different cultures, so it was just another place to call home.”
And they aren’t just playing pickup. The teams are competitive, and their awards are plenty.
“Obsession with sports is definitely a common denominator among all of us,” Azhar says. “We all waste a lot of time talking about sports, looking at sports statistics. We have a DART fantasy group as well.”
The obsession is so intrinsic, the group says, that Sunny will frequently quiz the men on sports facts, though he has “a 13 year head start,” they note.
And the guys don’t just show up for each other on the court and on the field. When one member, Arijit Bhattacharjee, went to the finals for intramu -
ral flag football at UTD, DART committee members and casual players alike showed up to cheer him on. The team won for the third year in a row, Bhattacharjee noted, and have supported different initiatives each other have presented.
“[DART members] just felt like a family and they’ve helped develop me, not only in the game of seven on seven, but becoming a better man and learning the mores in life,” says Jelani Arnold, who joined last year and pioneered the first Madden season. “It’s more than just football. It’s a family away from my own.”
Some of the members won games this year in Seattle and Chicago. Photo by Brandon Gonzalez
PLANO ODD FELLOWS LODGE
In the fall, 10-year-old Ryder Molepske-Eoff received a double-lung transplant after being on a waiting list for 169 days.
Part of his recovery was funded by the Odd Fellows of Texas Plano Lodge #114, who held a cornhole tournament in his honor and raised over $8,000, says Charles Stephenson, Grand Master of Odd Fellows of Texas.
The Odd Fellows have a long history in Plano, though the lodge nearly closed completely.
The Plano Odd Fellows Lodge started in 1870, helping the Freemasons and other fraternal groups build the first cemetery in Plano.
“The main purpose was if you had a poor family and they didn’t have any money, how are you going to handle burying your loved ones or handling all the expenses,” he says. “So it was a charitable act by all those organizations to help those in the community.”
The lodge was active from 1870 to 1983, earning a plaque outside of its former Downtown Plano building, now the A. R. Schell Agency.
“For years, I would walk by the plaque that’s on the old
building there and I kept thinking, ‘It would be nice to bring that back to my community,’” Stephenson says. “I heard lots of stories from my family and I knew all the good work that they used to do.”
Stephenson got together with some friends in 2017, aiming to bring back the organization.
In May 2018, they got a charter with 10-15 active members. Today, the group has over 40 members, with an average age range from 20s to 40s.
Previously, the group has worked with domestic violence shelter Hope’s Door New Beginnings, City House and highway cleanups.
“It’s a success story, it was a good idea to bring the fellowship back to Plano,” Stephenson says. The group regularly meets to discuss ways to help those in the community and in each other’s lives. At one meeting last year, Stephenson mentioned Ryder.
“I’ve been connected with the Molepske family since the fourth grade,” he says. “[Ryder’s dad] is basically a brother-from-another-mother.”
Ryder has had severe lung disease since he was a toddler, but in 2023 he had to be put on oxygen and go on the transplant list. His family moved to Houston to be closer to Texas Children’s Hospital.
The group held a Bags & Brews Cornhole Tournament at the Plano Elks Lodge to raise money for the family’s medical and travel expenses for Ryder’s transplant.
Though the lodge had never done a fundraiser of that magnitude before, they raised almost $10,000, which spurred the idea to make the event annual to benefit other families.
“People were really generous of heart,” Stephenson says. “We really lucked out because we all came together.”
KNOWNWELL
Shortly after moving to Chicago, Brooke Boyarky was looking for a new primary care physician. She was running late to an appointment, but she had to have her Harvard T-shirt.
“Something I’d accidentally discovered years before was if I wore it to the first session and the doctor saw me in the Harvard T-shirt, their tone [would change],” Pratt says. “Now, they’d see me as educated. When I realized I’m literally willing to run late to find a Harvard T-shirt in my closet because I will not go to the doctor without it and I was like, ‘What the hell is going on?’”
Pratt says weight-inclusive healthcare is a rarity and the process has always been long.
Following her appointment, she researched how common the experience was, feeling impassioned but ultimately stuck to her corporate real estate job. After giving birth to a child in Chicago, however, she felt like she was “put on this planet” to try and make the experience easier for others.
She co-founded knownwell with physician and Chief Medical Officer Angela Fitch and, aiming for accessibility, ensured that the clinic accepts all commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid.
should be 140 pounds?” “You’re much heavier than that.” “You’re overweight.” The research actually shows that a stigmatizing experience where the doctor yells at you about your weight, which is what the vast majority of Americans have experienced, leads patients to gain more weight. Our standard of care is exacerbating and making the disease worse. Imagine if we had a treatment for leukemia that we knew made leukemia worse and that was how every doctor practiced in the U.S.
The clinic offers primary care for adults and optional weight management for adults and teens that have a goal to lose weight.
The clinic’s first location opened in the Boston area in early 2023.
“Our very first patient when we opened our doors in Boston was a 58-year-old woman who had not been to the doctor for 18 years because of how stigmatizing the experience she had last time was,” says co-founder Brooke Boyarsky Pratt. “She hadn’t had bloodwork in 18 years and in her first visit with us, we found a lump that, thank God, ended up being benign … but that’s the cost of people feeling [stigmatized].”
WHAT MAKES THE CLINIC DIFFERENT?
We practice what’s called weight-inclusive primary care. I did not know this before this idea came up, but there are two ways of practicing medicine. The typical way in the United States is called weight-normative. I have experienced, maybe 15 to 20 times in primary care, “You’re 5 foot 4 inches, did you know you
So what came out over the last decade was this idea of inclusive medicine. So that might mean I walk into the doctor and they say, “How can we incorporate walks to improve your cardio?” “Can we improve our consumption of plants and protein?”
So the underlying idea here was to create clinics that were a place I would go as a patient.
HOW DOES WEIGHT-NORMATIVE CARE LOOK IN PRACTICE?
Once I moved to Chicago, I went to the doctor with a sinus infection. As I was leaving, the doctor said, “You know, if you lose weight, you might get less sinus infections.” I immediately called my doctor friends, and they couldn’t imagine a situation in which those two things were related. Like many people, I’ve had a pain that’s dismissed — like when my right knee ended up being a meniscus tear and they were like, “It’s probably related to your weight.” But it was because I was playing tennis and being active.
WHY OPEN A CLINIC IN PLANO?
It’s really the growth in where families are coming, right? The DFW region is obviously huge and ultimately we narrowed it down to Plano because there’s so much need, as you move a little bit outside of the city. When you start looking at Plano, McKinney, Allen and even Richardson and further out, we saw a much lower clinician to patient ratio. We serve adolescents and adults for weight management and only adults for primary care. We really pride ourselves on being able to see the whole family, and in Plano in particular, it is such a family-oriented community that we thought it would be a really cool place to start.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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