Sucre Cafe
 Sucre Café Logo | |
| Industry | Retail café |
|---|---|
| Founder | Golden |
| Real-life equivalent | Starbucks Corporation |
| Version introduced | 0.5.4 |
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Sucre Café origins
The origin of the popular brand started all the way back in 1971. The founder, Joey Buckstar just graduated from the Greenfield Eastern University. He was looking for a business idea, but he had no idea what to do. As stated by himself:" A week after graduating my friend Charlie invited me over to his favourite coffee place, the shop was located in the San Bernadino Valley near Los Angeles. The shop sold coffee beans and instead of the other coffee shops at the time, this one was primarily focused on the expierence of the customer." After this, Joey started driving around the USA. A 4 week long roadtrip. Visiting all sorts of small coffee shops and café's. After arriving home, he bought a small storefront in Downtown Greenfield. After lots of inspiration and excitement for his new project, the store opened on July 14th, 1971. The small store then called Buckstar cofffee emporium became pretty popular and well-known. After only 3 months the second location opened in Santa Cecilia. At the time the business sold coffee beans and the necessary equipment to make coffee at home. After 2 years of opening a young man came all the way from New Orleans to check out the coffee shop he had heard about from his friends. The man named Johnny Zest had been quite an expert in everything coffee. He was suprised by how different the shop was from others he had seen. Johnny drove back home and packed his stuff, he was moving to California.
After 3 months Johnny was hired by Joey as co-manager. Johnny had visited Italy and France in the second month. He was so suprised by how the café's and coffee in europe that he took pictures of every single small café he had seen. After arriving back home he showed Joey the pictures and was begging him to change the shops purpose, from selling coffee beans and equipment too actually being able to drink the coffee at the shop itselves. Around this time the store had 6 locations around Greenfield and Joey was unimpressed. He told Johnny that he can do it at the location in Santa Cecilia as a "test", but not anywhere else. If it works it would be incorpirated at the other locations aswell, if not he was fired. So Johhny did what Joey said. He changed the Santa Cecilia location from a coffee maker store to a small café. Unfortunately a month later Joey got cancer. The stores closed and he sold all his belongings, including his coffee shop. The brand was bought by Johhny with the only money he had left. He opened the store a few months later in January 1974. The brand was renamed to Sucre Café, based on the word sugar in france. From this point on the store started exploding in popularity. It went from one new location opening every month to a new one opening every other day. It reached 100 locations in July 1974, with the first one opening on the west coast in New York. A decade later in 1985 the first international one opened in Canada, followed by the first intercontinental location in Japan. As much as the brand was expanding, Johnny wanted to find an idea that would be the icon of Sucre Café, this would become the iced coffee. The brand went so far that you would find a Sucre Cafe on every corner. That was untill the crisis of 2008. It was a big hit on a high end coffee shop chain like Sucré. They closed 129 lower-peforming stores all around the globe in the first year, 63 in the following. After seeing what a disaster it has been for the brand, Johnny had to find another idea that would get the shop back to the place they were before. He invented the frappucino, a milkshake like drink with coffee in it. After that the brand rised again. Today the chain has 36.043 stores around the globe, 19.382 of which are in the USA.
Sucre Café basic information.
Sucre Café is a high-end coffee shop chain that sells expensive coffee. From espresso and cappucino in the beginning to frappucino's and iced coffee now. The chain Also sells baked goods like cookies, sandwiches and cakes. Apart from having to go to your local Sucre yourselves you can also buy iced cappucinos at your local grocery store. You can put these pods in a Coffee Maker and it makes a drink almost as good as the ones you would buy at the Sucre Stores. You can also buy merchendise and Coffee beans at the stores itselves.
Sucre Café locations
there are alot of Sucre Café locations on the east side of the map, this is lore wise: because the right side was a former industrial area/still industrial area so the Café would not earn alot of money with locations there. The actual reason is because Golden (the founder of the company) joined when the 0.5.4 update was being made. The green dots are where the normal cafés are at, the yellow dot is where the Sucre Roast is, more on that later. The beach is a hot spot for Sucre Café locations as a lot of tourists go there, so more people to buy iced coffee after a long day in the hot sun. The GIA airport is also a hot spot for locations because the GIA is the busiest transportation hub in Greenfield.
Sucre Roast
Sucre Roast is based on the IRL Starbucks Roastery. The Sucre Roast is the place where people come to buy special new coffees, made and invented right infront of them. Or eat food only available in 8 locations around the world! Sucre Roast is a more industrial and steampunk inspired restaurant. Instead of the usual modern and green vibe Sucres have.
Beside the Cafés
Beside the Sucre Café and Roastery, there are other locations to buy and make Sucre coffee. You might find a stand in grocery stores where you can pay through the machine and it makes Sucre for you. You can also buy the products in gas stations, vending machines and more.
Gallery
Sucre Café on the West side of Rockwell.
Sucre Café Near the beach
Sucre Café in Palma
Sucre Café in the airport
