Random trivia, but the original founders of Starbucks pretty much worshipped the guy that founded Peets. He supplied their original beans, and he was the reason they opened the store. An Ikea type salesman then falls in love with the Starbucks model of teaching people to make coffee versus selling them coffee. Later those founders sold Starbucks to the Ikea (sort of) dude that idolized their product so they could focus on Peet's (they idolized) which they had purchased from their mentor.
Supposedly Peets is the better of the two on quality