Mike Spector's Wall Street Journal article reports that there are 2000 tea houses in the U.S. and tea sales were $6.2 billion last year. Tea became as "convenient as bottled juice and soda" with the advent of Snapple Iced Tea.There are four exceptional tea companies : Tealife which operates Tempest Tea in Dallas; TeaGschwendner, a German company with its first U.S. store in Chicago; Foodx Globe, a Japanese company with its first green tea bar - Koots - in Seattle, and Teavana based in Atlanta with 50 stores nationwide.
TeaGschwendner, Chicago
Tempest Tea, Dallas
Koots Green Tea Shop, Seattle
Teavana locations
The original Peets on Cedar in Berkeley CA always served tea alongside coffee.
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