Gabe, I totally know what you meant.
Though, I met a lot of different people while working at Starbucks. Although it's become a bit more diverse, I think generally speaking it's the patrons of Starbucks who are a bit more like what you've described than just the employees. The patrons always seemed a bit more consistent than those who were hired to work there. My boss at the Starbucks I worked at in Hawaii was a pot smoking Japanese guy named Hiroshi Ogoshi and he was the most laid back, amazing boss ever! And still got things done. It was fun.
I had to stop working there though because I was working at Red Lobster at the same time and it was a crazy schedule. I lived a few miles away and the bus didn't run early enough for me to catch it to open Starbucks in the mornings so I had to take sleep medicine so that I could go to bed at 7:00pm and wake up at 2:00am to be on the road by 3:00am to be at work by 4:00am. I'd work from 4-11 then go take the bus home, sleep a couple hours, get ready and be at work at Red Lobster at 5:00 and work until 11 or 12. o_o I almost died during those six months....I did NOT want to leave Starbucks because I MUCH preferred the environment there to the one at Red Lobster but I made way more money at Red Lobster. *sigh* Those were the days....