{"id":662,"date":"2015-05-22T14:36:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/?p=662"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:02:20","slug":"the-davidstea-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/the-davidstea-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The DAVIDsTEA Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><b>Reading Time:<\/b> <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>New to DAVIDsTEA? Never been to a store? Here\u2019s an intro to what we\u2019re all about.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>In the beginning\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Great tea, a friendly environment and above-and-beyond customer service. It seemed like a simple idea, but young entrepreneur David Segal and his retail-savvy cousin Herschel couldn\u2019t find anyone else that was doing it.<\/p>\n<p>So DAVIDsTEA was born: a colourful, modern store with a fun attitude, over 150 teas and an amazing selection of tea-making accessories. From our first store on Toronto\u2019s Queen Street in 2008, we\u2019ve brought our love of tea to over 160 shops across Canada and the US.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_666\" style=\"width: 684px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/556259_10150686688757910_1839784887_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\" wp-image-666\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/556259_10150686688757910_1839784887_n.jpg\" alt=\"Queen West\" width=\"674\" height=\"1016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/556259_10150686688757910_1839784887_n.jpg 637w, https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/556259_10150686688757910_1839784887_n-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our very first store, located on Toronto&#8217;s Queen Street West.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Our take on tea<\/h3>\n<p>Tea is steeped in thousands of years of history, in just about every culture around the globe. We love tradition, but for us, tea is also about so much more.<\/p>\n<h3>Tea is fun<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s an adventure that never gets old, and we\u2019re constantly trying new things and discovering new tastes and ingredients.<\/p>\n<h3>Tea is delicious<\/h3>\n<p>Great taste is our top priority with all of our teas, whether you\u2019re looking for a bakery-ready treat or a classic straight tea.<\/p>\n<h3>Visiting our stores<\/h3>\n<p>As soon as you walk into one of our stores, you\u2019ll be greeted with a smile and a free sample of our tea of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Walk up to the counter and one of our Tea Guides will be happy to help you smell as many teas as you can before finding the perfect blend. Our top priority is that you leave smiling.<\/p>\n<h3>Come find us<\/h3>\n<p>Want to come experience us for yourself? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/locations.davidstea.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Store Locator\">Find a store near you<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or to get a taste from the comfort of home, start <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidstea.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"davidstea.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">shopping online<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><b>Reading Time:<\/b> <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>New to DAVIDsTEA? Never been to a store? Here\u2019s an intro to what we\u2019re all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[146,147],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-store-experience","tag-tea-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11001,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/11001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}