The Coffee Bean
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Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Los Feliz, California

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf headquarters in Los Angeles, California

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is a Los Angeles, California-based coffee chain, owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. The company was founded by Mona and Herbert Hyman. The first store opened in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood in 1963. Many "Coffee Beans" found outside of California are franchises, Singaporean entrepreneur Victor Sassoon has opened locations throughout Southeast Asia, and Hawaii's stores are franchises as well^[1].

Wi-fi access is offered at 144 locations. Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is an international presence with locations in Singapore, Israel, Korea, United Arab Emirates, Brunei, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Kuwait, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and Mexico City^[2].

Several Southern California Ralphs supermarkets feature full-service Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf kiosks in their stores.

Halal & Kosher

Most, if not all, of the products at "Coffee Bean" are certified as kosher. At least one Coffee Bean store even goes to the extent of meeting the higher standard of cholov yisroel in their dairy products. Unlike Starbucks, Coffee Bean has fared fairly well in its entry into the Israeli coffee chain market. This may be attributed to its kosher food selection, though the main reasoning is said to be that Coffee Bean allowed smoking. Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's beverages are also halal. ^[3]

Television/Movie Appearances

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has appeared in a number of television shows. It is unclear if this is part of the company's marketing strategy.

• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf was featured in the HBO show Entourage as the regular meeting place for Vincent Chase and his associates.
• The Coffee Bean was repeatedly featured on Jamie Kennedy´s MTV show Blowin' Up as his favorite hangout place.
• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf was featured in the 2005 film version of the TV show Bewitched.
• In two of Ashley Tisdale's Youtube videos, she mentions The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. One video, she is seen drinking it. In a video of her on tour, she is going to Starbucks and says that she is "cheating on The Coffee Bean."
• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf was featured in the film The Holiday, where the drink held by Jack Black is the "Ice Blended," recognizable by a purple straw and the logo on the cup.
• Some promotional pictures of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie were taken for the fifth season of The Simple Life within a The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf location.
• Gary Arndt, noted travel blogger, used to work at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf mobile cappuccino station appeared in the 2007 comedy Meet the Spartans

External links

• Official website of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
• Company profile on Yahoo! Finance
• Hawaii Franchise Website

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