There was ’bucks, the coffee-centered franchise intent on conquering the world. 2015, James Grady, “Next Day of the Condor”, in Last Days of the Condor, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, →ISBN, page 357:
I suppose the last thing someone in my nervous state needed was caffeine, but that didn’t stop me from hitting the ’Bucks with Madison and Paige before school the next morning for a soothing Chai latte. 2009 January 27, Micol Ostow, “Chock-full o’ OMG”, in GoldenGirl (A Bradford Novel), New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 136:
One youth pastor described it to me this way: “I wouldn’t go to the drycleaners because I have an iron at home. But my [senior] pastor would make a ton of Folgers at the office, but won’t go to Starbucks. . . but I would go to ‘Bucks for the environment.” 2007, Earl Creps, “Postmodern Pentecostals? Emerging Subcultures Among Young Pentecostal Leaders”, in Eric Patterson, Edmund Rybarczyk, editors, The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 30:
The restaurant next door to ’Bucks had more security than the Democratic National Convention. […] This was Java Lounge at ’Bucks; ’Bucks meaning Starbucks, the one in Ladera, an area filled with fast food joints, strip malls, and car dealerships; […] 2003 November, Eric Jerome Dickey, “Frankie”, in Naughty or Nice, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 37:
When I enter the doors at ’Bucks this morning, my favorite barista Johnnie greets me with, “Hola, Mamá.” 2016, Gillian Alex, “Tuesday, May 15ᵗʰ”, in Tuesday at Three, →ISBN, page 79: