In the morning, follow the scent of freshly ground coffee to the classic country inn dining room for the first of two included gourmet breakfasts sit beneath sunlit, palatial windows and dig into a three-course morning meal graced with fare like ricotta pancakes with raspberry syrup, or salmon Benedict in a pastry with asparagus.
With help from another rebel group, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, the Ugandans control the northern swathe of the country and are boosting their national income with the export of Congolese diamonds, gold and coffee.
Unfortunately for Kenyans, most of the highest quality coffee produced in their country still gets exported to other parts of the world.
They word of mouth spread around the coffee shop tables of each country, to the people who would stand up and change their own lives and the world around them.
As much as 10% of the country's coffee-growing region, or about 300, 000 acres, were replanted this year in a bid to get rid of the scourge.
India remains one of the big untapped markets for Seattle-based Starbucks, and the company's expected entry comes at a time of growing popularity of coffee outlets in the country.
Excerpt: There were places like this all across the country, dependent on the interstate, open early, bright, smelling of coffee, not unfriendly.
Starbucks' penetration is perhaps most remarkable of all, given that China is a country of devoted tea drinkers who do not take readily to the taste of coffee.
Coffee is now being cultivated in 25 districts in the country and last year, Nepal exported about 400 tonnes of coffee beans - 30 times what was produced two decades ago.
It was then, he says, that he became aware of the irony that in a country which grows so much coffee, people do not normally drink it.
In the waiting room on the executive floor, the head of risk from a subsidiary in a neighbouring country is pouring himself a coffee, having driven for an hour from his own office to talk about a new computer system.
After a year of imprudent policies coupled with low world prices for the country's staple exports (bananas, coffee and sugar), Mr Arzu will leave Guatemala with high fiscal and current-account deficits, slowing economic growth, a sharp depreciation in the quetzal, weak banks and depleted reserves.
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Banks' change of heart follows the political attack on Starbucks late last year, when it emerged that the coffee chain paid very small amounts of tax in the UK despite having a large operation in the country.
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