Starbucks Coffee Company is the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. The firm’s industry leadership is partly attributed to the appropriateness of its organizational structure. A company’s organizational structure influences management and leadership, communication, change, and other variables critical to business success. Starbucks has evolved to have an organizational structure that matches current business needs. This organizational structure is unique to Starbucks, although it can be characterized based on a conventional typology of organizational structures. Starbucks succeeds because its organizational structure grows with the business, enabling the company to optimize processes and the quality of its goods and services.