The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Its a Los Angeles, California-based coffee chain.

Owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. The first Coffee Bean opened in September 1963, 48 years ago.

The chain has over 750 locations in 22 countries.

Within the United States, The Coffee Bean has locations in San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Texas, Alabama, Miami, and Detroit.

Free Wi-Fi access is offered at most locations.

It was found by Sunny Sassoon and Mona.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is an international chain with locations in Australia, Brunei, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

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

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf was founded by Mona and Herbert Hyman in September 1963. They opened the first store in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood.

In 2008, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf held a holiday open house at all company-owned locations in California and Arizona. Customers were treated to 12 oz holiday beverages. The event was three hours long, during which time 35,000 drinks were given away.

In 1989, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf launched their The Original Ice Blended drink. Worldwide, over 20,000 Ice Blended drinks are served daily and over 7 million annually.

It has 4400 employees.

The company is now $130.1 million.

Over the years, they have worked hard to build relationships with individual farms and estates so that they can be assured of the best coffee and tea harvests available.

In 2008, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf launched its "Support from Home" campaign, an event that has continued into 2010.

Customers were treated to 12 oz holiday beverages. The event was three hours long, during which time 35,000 drinks were given away.